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ocated 15 minutes from Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International airport, Mesa is Arizona’s third largest city, providing top-notch sports facilities for all types of athletic events. It is home to semiprofessional and amateur teams, ten aquatic centers and a number of annual collegiate events.

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Gene Autry Sports Complex

Skyline Aquatic Center

Skyline is a 28-lane, Olympic-size competition pool and diving area with one and three-meter boards. The pool can be configured into two water polo courts and the stadium seats over 2,000. It was recently named as a host for the 2013-2016 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series.

Hohokam Stadium

This complex once served as the spring training home of the California Angels. Today it hosts baseball, sand volleyball and tennis tournaments, leagues and camps, as well as city programs and youth groups. It features three lighted and electronically scored baseball diamonds, four outdoor sand volleyball courts and 16 tennis courts. It has bleacher seating and parking for over 380 vehicles. Today it hosts baseball, sand volleyball and tennis tournaments, leagues and camps, as well as city programs and youth groups.It’s also home to the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League.

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Hohokam hosts the Chicago Cubs’ spring training, the Mesa Sox in the Arizona Fall League and the annual WAC Men’s Division I Baseball Tournament. The stadium accommodates 13,030 spectators and has two fields. Surrounding the fields are six batting cages, four bullpens and one practice field—accessible for any skill level. The neighboring Fitch Park training facility has four fields, plus batting cages and bullpens.

separate six-lane instructional pool. In recent years it hosted the US Masters Swimming Short Course Nationals. There is seating for 1,500 and three adjacent soccer fields for parking.

Quail Run Sports Complex Quail features four softball/baseball diamonds and four lighted soccer/multi-purpose fields. It has bleacher seating and parking that accommodates over 350 vehicles. There is plenty of green space to put up tournament headquarters, booths and concessions within the park.

& ‰ATTRACTIONS ACCOMODATIONS Mesa’s metropolitan area has plenty to offer, from shopping malls, movie theaters and restaurants to the Phoenix Zoo, the Grand Canyon and Sedona within short distances. Mesa makes it easy to stay within budget, with nearly 5,000 hotel rooms at various prices. Tack on great weather year round and Mesa is a sports planner’s dream.

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Sky Harbor International runs 1,100 flights daily and accommodates 39 million passengers a year. From LAX, the flight time is about 35 minutes, from Denver International it’s one hour and 50 minutes and from DFW it’s two hours.

Interstate 10, east to west, and 17, north to south, intersect near Phoenix. From Los Vegas, Nevada, its about a five and a half hour drive to Mesa, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, it’s six and a half hours and from San Diego, California, it’s six hours and 15 minutes.

Mesa offers public buses, Metro lines, cabs services and shuttle buses from Sky Harbor International.

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Groups love the serene setting at both Saguaro and Canyon Lakes where there is more than 20 miles of cactusstudded shoreline to explore. At Saguaro Lake, guests can ride the Desert Belle which hosts two 90-minute tours daily with detailed narration on the Arizona wildlife while taking in dramatic desert vistas. At Canyon Lake, hop aboard the Dolly Steamboat which offers nature cruises along the pre-historic canyon walls. Special twilight dinner cruises with a local astronomer are offered on select evenings.

At Mesa Arts Center, visitors can explore the grounds of the largest arts complex in the Southwest. Guests flock to the free weekly concert series along the Shadow Walk – an inviting, shaded outdoor oasis plaza. Mesa also boasts an incredible variety of group entertainment options including The Duttons, popular showstoppers at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, and the high-energy performances by Barleen’s Arizona Opry.

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Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau can help assist you in selecting a venue for your tournament, provide access to volunteers, coordinate giveaway’s to draw more spectators and also assist you with our local media promotion to be sure your tournament is successful.

Embraced by the Sonoran Desert, Mesa is surrounded by a rich, vibrant playground with unique attractions and offerings at every turn. Within minutes from our collection of resorts and hotels, guests can immerse themselves into a legendary landscape. Exploring the area’s scenic byways will weave motorcoaches through an inter-connected region of lakes, calm rivers, majestic mountains and stunning canyons.

Mesa Convention and Visitors Bureau can help assist you in selecting a venue for your tournament, provide access to volunteers, coordinate giveaway’s to draw more spectators and also assist you with our local media promotion to be sure your tournament is successful.

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120 N. Center St., Mesa, AZ 85201 480-827-4700 • sports@visitmesa.com www.visitmesa.com

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