The Slater Family Ice Arena is a 5,000-seat hockey arena on the campus of

Bowling Green State University Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is a Public university, public research university in Bowling Green, Ohio. The main academic and residential campus is south of Toledo, Ohio. The university has nationally recognized programs and research ...

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. It is home to the university's men's ice hockey team, the

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, which plays in the

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. It was built from 1965 to 1967 for a cost of $1.8 million and opened in February 1967. The arena originally had seating for 2,863 until 1989 when it was expanded to its current size of 5,000. Formerly known as the BGSU Ice Arena, it was renamed in 2016.

Ice hockey

* Bowling Green State University's

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Division I men's team competes in the

(CCHA). The team began in 1969 and played in the

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for its first two seasons before joining the CCHA as a charter member for the 1971–72 season. Upon the demise of the original CCHA in 2013, the Falcons moved to the

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, playing there until leaving to reestablish the CCHA in 2021. * BGSU men's club team ( ACHA Division II/ GLIHA) * BGSU women's club team (ACHA D2 and CCWHA) * Bowling Green High School varsity and junior varsity teams * BGSU intramural

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, curling, and hockey * Bowling Green Youth Hockey Association

Figure skating

* BGSU

Synchronized Skating Synchronized skating is an ice skating sport where between 8 to 16 skaters perform together as a team. They move as a flowing unit at high speed over the ice, while performing elements and footwork. This complex sport originated in 1956 and was ...

Team * Bowling Green

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Club * Other individual skating programs and competitions

Curling

The BGSU Ice Arena was home to the Bowling Green

Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

Club for 48 years (1968–2016). In the spring of 2016, the club began a move to a dedicated curling facility. On October 21, 2017, the move was completed.

External links

BGSU men's ice hockey

BGSU Men's Club Ice Hockey

Bowling Green Curling Club

Bowling Green Youth Hockey Association

References

Bowling Green Falcons ice hockey College ice hockey venues in the United States Indoor ice hockey venues in Ohio Indoor arenas in Ohio Sports venues completed in 1967 1967 establishments in Ohio Buildings and structures in Wood County, Ohio {{Ohio-sports-venue-stub