The Centre Ice Arena, also called The Centre, is a 700-seat, 49,000 square-foot facility built in 2002. It is located on the Delaware State Fairgrounds in
Harrington, Delaware
Harrington is a city in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. Harrington hosts the annual Delaware State Fair each July. The population was 3,562 at the 2010 census.
History
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. The facility holds an ice rink and hosts
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two o ...
,
figure skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 Olympics ...
and public skating in the winter, and then hosts the
4-H
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and
FFA
FFA may refer to:
Aviation and military
* First Flight Airport, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States
* Free-fire area in U.S. military parlance
* Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein, a Swiss aircraft and railway vehicle manufacturer
* ...
exhibits and demonstrations during the
Delaware State Fair
The Delaware State Fair is the annual state fair for the state of Delaware. It is held in Harrington. The fair is a ten-day event at the end of July.
History
The first Delaware State Fair was held in Wilmington, with mentions of the "Delaware S ...
in the summer.
Ice hockey
The
Salisbury University
Salisbury University is a public university in Salisbury, Maryland. Founded in 1925, Salisbury is a member of the University System of Maryland, with a fall 2016 enrollment of 8,748.
Salisbury University offers 42 distinct undergraduate and 14 ...
Gulls club ice hockey team play home games at the Centre. The
Federal Prospects Hockey League
The Federal Prospects Hockey League (FPHL) is a professional ice hockey independent minor league with teams in the Midwestern, Southern, and Northeastern United States. The FPHL began operations in November 2010 as the Federal Hockey League. D ...
's
Delaware Thunder
The Delaware Thunder are a dormant professional ice hockey team in the Federal Prospects Hockey League and based in Delaware. From 2019 to 2023, the team played at the Centre Ice Rink in Harrington, Delaware, but are in the process of evaluating ...
have also called the building home since the fall of 2019.
Figure skating
The Bay Country Figure Skating Club's skaters perform shows and practice at the Centre.
["Bay Country Figure Skating Club - Welcome." Bay Country Figure Skating Club - Welcome. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Mar. 2014. .]
References
Indoor ice hockey venues in the United States
2002 establishments in Delaware
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