Carey Stadium is an open-air

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located just off the

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in Ocean City,

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. The stadium is primarily used by the

Ocean City School District The Ocean City School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey. As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, ...

for

Ocean City High School Ocean City High School (OCHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Ocean C ...

's football, soccer, and

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teams. Carey Stadium is also known as the home field for the

Ocean City Nor'easters Ocean City Nor'easters is an American soccer team based in Ocean City, New Jersey. Founded in 1996, the team currently plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The team plays their home games at Carey Stadium wh ...

(formerly named Ocean City Barons) of the

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. The club has called the stadium home since 2005. In 2016, the stadium's natural grass field was replaced with a new FieldTurf surface made of all-natural cork fill instead of crumb rubber. The stadium's nickname "The Beach House" was coined during the Nor'easters' 2005 season by the team's play-by-play announcer Josh Hakala. Since joining

in 2003, the Nor'easters have had the fourth-best home record of any team in the league.https://oceancityfc.demosphere-secure.com/_files/history/ocean-city-noreasters-pdl-team-records.pdf Carey Stadium is located a little more than 200 meters from the

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, only one minor league sports team in the country plays closer to an ocean than the Nor'easters do. (Minor league baseball team

Pensacola Blue Wahoos The Pensacola Blue Wahoos are a Minor League Baseball team of the Southern League and the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. They are based in Pensacola, Florida, and play their home games at Admiral Fetterman Field. In 2012, the team rel ...

play at

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in Pensacola, Florida) File:Old Carey Stadium Concession Stand 11-18.2000.jpg, Carey Stadium 11.18.2000

External links

Ocean City Nor'eastersOcean City High School

References

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