If I remember correctly Appalachian State just added a bunch of new seating in their stadium.
I think their football team is trying to go into Division 1A so they added a few thousand more seats.
The track is great.
I also like NC A&T track which is where the high school state meets are every year now.
What's the capacity of Sacramento State? It's a decently sized stadium.
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Washington's stadium will be rebuilt in the future. As soon as there is funding. It will be rebuilt with out the track.
Swofford11 wrote:
If I remember correctly Appalachian State just added a bunch of new seating in their stadium.
the new official seating is 20,000, however, with grass seating and standing and however they do it they get 30,000 per football game in there.
The University of North Texas has a track in their football stadium that holds close to 31,000.
It's been said, but Duke's Wallace Wade stadium holds 33,000 and has a nice track.
Go Blue Devils!
Tad Gormley Stadium, in New Orleans. Site of the 92 Oly Trials.
Seats 26,500.
Isn't University of Washington getting rid of their track as part of renovating the football stadium?
what's the capacity of the Icahn Stadium on Randall Island where they hold the Reebok Grand Prix?
in fact so good that it hosted the US USSR meets with crowds so large they had to truck in extra bleachers from UNC and NCST
mighty porn stache wrote:
Duke....ugh, it pains me to write that.
But their track is inside their football stadium, and it's a good track.
and yes...its a phenomenal track facility
kinda but really not smart wrote:
What's the capacity of Sacramento State? It's a decently sized stadium.
No it's not. When they've had the Olympic trials there it has been with temporary bleachers. Not suitable for an international meet. San Francisco State actually has a larger permanent seating capacity than Sac State, and a decent track. But I don't think it's over 10,000.
The real question is, where in the US can you fill a large stadium for a track meet. The answer is, only in Eugene.
run with the wom wrote:
UW / Seattle for a world championships would be awesome.
This is a great suggestion for a number of reasons.
However, I don't think most people will get it...unless they have actually attended an event inside Husky Stadium (and I am a Duck).
First, the location is almost impossible to beat. If you have ever been there on a clear warm summer of fall day...OMG...I cannot think of a more Idyllic stadium location.
And I have been in alot of world wide Oly stadiums.
People actually arrive for events at Husky Staium...in sailboats and yachts.
Next, Seattle, secretly, is a Sports Mad town. Their soccer team? 50-60k regular attendance. Seahawks? Better true fan support than almost any team in the NFL.
Because Seattle is so remote to the East Coast, little of this is reported or understood. Seattle is also both wealthy, and intelligent.
More books read per capita than any other city or state in the USA. And it ain't just the rain. You can watch TV or play Xbox in the rain. Seattle has a huge consciousness and educational heritage...it and it's suburbs are literally littered with universities and colleges.
Just like Tijuana has a huge Mexican/Hispanic heritage...Seattle is influenced by it's Scandinavian and Canadian heritages and influences. Intelligence, and education that embraces the world. It is also "America's Switzerland. And in all of this Seattle is the great not yet understood secret of the USA.
What is so amazing about this, is that with Microsoft, Amazon and many, many, many others...Seattle is tech both culture tech-savvy, culture tech savvy...open to celbrating sports spectacles.
It is unlike any place else in the USA. Like a slice of USA/Europe/and Canada all in one.
If the IAAF held the WC's in Seattle...it would be a MASSIVE SUCCESS.
Unlike places like "Indy," Seattle would fill the stands not out of an American-ism, but out of a world sense of affinity with the PURE cool-joy of the sport we all love..."athletics.
Short-course?
There is no other community in the USA that could pack the stands, the venue, for one week plus of T&F.
I have been in most venues in the USA, and landed in Seattle recently...Husky Stadium, Mountlake...
d'Shizzle.
Finally, Listen, one of my best makes year ago tried with his team to get a IAAFWC at Stanford, in the Mighty Bay Area... Couldn't and Did Not happen.
Seattle could make it happen.
You have to have been here, or be here, to understand.
It is so UNDER THOUGHT OF........that it is Perfect.
And, with all your support we can watch the sh*t...Prime Time.
With a world championship I think you can fill a stadium in NY. There is a large west Indian population that is track crazy.
sader wrote:
what's the capacity of the Icahn Stadium on Randall Island where they hold the Reebok Grand Prix?
5,000
Wørd wrote:
The real question is, where in the US can you fill a large stadium for a track meet. The answer is, only in Eugene.
I guess Penn or Drake don't count. Both waaaay larger than Eugene, and both with huge crowds every year.
Eugene looks like it has huge crowds because it is such a small stadium. Drake sells out it's Saturday session every year - been doing so for the past 40+ years. Penn routinely draws in excess of 100,000 fans for 3 days.
Husky stadium is not in the condition needed to host a world championship. There is no money to fix the stadium or the track. And if they do fix it up, they will unfortunately get rid of the track.
Here's a link to some comprehensive images of Appalachian's stadium enhancements.
Track stadiums? wrote:
Watching the world championships, I got thinking - what are the largest stadiums (by seating capacity) in the US with tracks in them? I can find lists for football stadiums, but none of them have tracks.
For about 70 years, Ohio State had a track inside the horseshoe and could seat 90,000 for track but in the nineties they dropped the field and removed the track to add seats.
They did build a very nice track stadium at the edge of campus but I have no idea what it can hold.