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  • Bring your A Game
    Bring your A Game

    Grand Island loves sporting events and makes every effort as a community to make teams, coaches, and spectators feel right at home.

  • Don't Swing too Hard
    Don't Swing too Hard

    There's plenty to do in Grand Island while your team isn't competing.

  • Room to Roam
    Room to Roam

    Grand Island Venues offer space for you, your team, and your family to spread out.

  • The Big Cheer
    The Big Cheer

    We'll roll out the red carpet for your sports events here in Grand Island!

Grand Island Sporting Venues

  • • Adjacent to Heartland Event Center
    • Premier thoroughbred racing track
    • Practice track
    • Clubhouse and restaurant
    • Thompson4-HArena
    • Horse barns
    • Banquet, meeting and trade show facilities

  • • 70,000 sq. ft.
    • Volleyball court
    • Basketball court
    • Batting Cage
    • Meeting room and kitchen

  • • 170,000 square foot arena
    • Seating capacity: 6,000 to 7,500
    • Four locker rooms with coaches offices and locker rooms
    • Team meeting, lounge, training and weight/equipment rooms
    • Multiple concession stands
    • Game officials dressing rooms
    • Four-sided video scoreboard
    • 20 acres of hard surface parking

  • • Sporting Clays: 15 shooting stations one mile in length
    • Trap: 8 lighted ranges equipped with “PAT” traps
    • Skeet: 6 lighted ranges equipped with “PAT” traps
    • Pistol and Rifle: 6 ranges from 25 yards to 600 yards; center fire ranges fully baffled and protected by 60-foot shooting tubes
    • Retriever Trials: 7-acre lake also serves as Kids Derby Fishing location
    • Activity Center: Viewing deck, meeting facilities, Internet access

  • • Nebraska’s largest trap facility; ATA affiliate
    • Site of Cornhusker National Trap Shoot—world’s largest
    youth shoot
    • 24 trap ranges (one mile length) with fully automated
    STAR trap machines
    • 4 lighted fields with bank board
    • Clubhouse with Internet access and concessions
    • Seating throughout venue supported by speaker/PA system

  • • Junior Olympic Archery Development facility
    • Indoor/Outdoor range | 9.3 acres
    • Home of Erika Anschutz

  • • Four 300’ ball fields used for softball and youth baseball
    • 12 acres of soccer fields

Bring an Event to Grand Island

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