Sports in Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Sports in
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs play their home baseball games at Coca-Cola Park, a 10,178 capacity stadium in east Allentown. The Phantoms play their home ice hockey games at PPL Center, a 9,056 capacity indoor arena in Center City Allentown.
Teams
Club | League | Sport | Venue | Established | Championships |
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Lehigh Valley IronPigs | IL | Baseball | Coca-Cola Park | 2008 | 0 |
Lehigh Valley Phantoms | AHL | Hockey | PPL Center | 2014 | 0 |
Collegiate athletics
Both Cedar Crest College and Muhlenberg College, each in Allentown, have collegiate athletic programs in most sports. The Muhlenberg Mules football team plays their home games at Scotty Wood Stadium on the Muhlenberg campus in Allentown.
Golf
The Lehigh Valley has many public and private golf courses. Allentown is home to Allentown Municipal Golf Course and Iron Lakes Country Club. Bethlehem is home to the Bethlehem Golf Club and Green Pond Country Club. There are also several other courses located outside of the cities.
Gymnastics
Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center, which has been the training ground for numerous Olympians and U.S. national gymnastics champions, is based in Allentown. In 2003, CNN aired a documentary on Parkettes, Achieving the Perfect 10, which depicted it as a hugely demanding and competitive training program.
High school athletics
Allentown's three high schools, Allentown Central Catholic High School, Louis E. Dieruff High School, and William Allen High School, all compete in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, one of the most elite high school athletic divisions in the nation. The conference comprises twelve of the largest high schools in the Lehigh Valley and offers 21 interscholastic boys and girls sports and has produced an abundant number of athletes who have gone on to compete in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, and Olympics. The conference's high school wrestling programs have been labeled "among the nation’s best in the sport for nearly three decades."[1]
Professional baseball
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple A minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies, play their home games at Coca-Cola Park, a 10,178 capacity stadium in east Allentown.
In the 20th century,
Professional basketball
Allentown hosted the Allentown Jets, an Eastern Professional Basketball League team, from 1958 to 1981. The Jets were one of the most dominant franchises in the league's history, winning eight playoff championships and twelve division titles. The team’s home games were played in Rockne Hall, the indoor arena of Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown.
Professional ice hockey
On February 12, 2009, the owners of the
In March 2011, it was announced that an 8,500-seat arena was to be built in Allentown, and the team was renamed the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Additional plans for the area surrounding the arena included retail, restaurants, a convention center, and a hotel. The arena was constructed in Center City Allentown on West Hamilton Street.[2] and opened September 10, 2014.
Professional soccer
Allentown is the former home of the
See also
References
- ^ "Wrestling: Why District 11 2A teams have tougher path to state final," The Morning Call, January 30, 2019, retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-allentown-hockey-arena-announcemen20110302,0,6769838.story?page=2 [bare URL]
- ^ a b Long, Ernie (13 December 1999). "The Popular Stoners Were Hurt By League: ASL Got Away From What Made It Successful, Which Destroyed Allentown Team". The Morning Call.
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