Help me list all of the 200m banked indoor tracks in the US...

IU DOES have an indoor banked track. It's fairly new...about 4 years old.

I heard rumors about Madison getting a hydraulic track by 2010, but they might just be rumors.

Make sure you add VMI to the list. I've run there several times in the past, and it was still there last I heard.

U Montana does not have an indoor track at all, but Montana State does

University of Idaho does not have a banked track (Idaho State does)

I can tell you these things with absolute certainty.

having grown up there (literally), Episcopal's indoor track definitely has a bank, and is more of an oval than its outdoor track.

OK--

-Boston University

-Penn State

-NYC Armory

-Reggie Lewis

-Nebraska

-IUPUI

-Indiana University

-Arkansas

-Montana State

-Idaho State

-Yale

-Harvard

-Texas A & M

-Virgina Tech

-Virgina Military Institute (VMI)

-U of New Mexico (this might be gone now)

(I'm not sure exactly what Episcopal is.)???

Are there any in Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Michigan? These are all cold states with a lot of collegiate programs.[/quote]

I raced on a banked indoor track a couple of times at the University of Nevada Reno.

I don't know if they still have it.

It was temporary, I think. They set it up in a rodeo arena.

OK--

-Boston University

-Penn State

-NYC Armory

-Reggie Lewis

-Nebraska

-IUPUI

-Indiana University

-Arkansas

-Montana State

-Idaho State

-Yale

-Harvard

-Texas A & M

-Virgina Tech

-Virgina Military Institute (VMI)

-U of New Mexico (this might be gone now)

(I'm not sure exactly what Episcopal is.)???

Are there any in Wisconsin, Minnesota, or Michigan? These are all cold states with a lot of collegiate programs.[/quote]

Lawrenceville Prep school in Lawrence New Jersey has a 4 lane banked track.

raced on that track as well... last i heard, it was condemned and is no longer in use. i hated that track - may have been nice at one point, but by the time i ran on it, there were a lot of dead spots.

i will post a complete list tomorrow morning when i return to my office - have one available there.

Of these tracks I've only raced Penn State and Nebraska. They're both blazing fast. Oversized tracks may be a little faster, but I love racing on banked tracks.

EHS is a high school, so it wouldn't go on your list. Though, if I were a school in the D.C. area and wanted to hold an indoor meet, I would definitely look at renting the field house.

Blathering Blatherskyte wrote:

EHS is a high school, so it wouldn't go on your list. Though, if I were a school in the D.C. area and wanted to hold an indoor meet, I would definitely look at renting the field house.

Why would it not go on the list if it were a high school? If it has a banked curve shouldn't it be included?

does it have to be collegiate? Because I am thinking back to a track that is almost 4 decades old and is in the L.A. Sports arena, or used to be anyway... the Sunkist Invite (also known as the L.A. Indoor Invitational) track. Bright orange and yellow, made of wood and so much fun to run on!

Isn't the IU track the same track that was used for NCAAs at the Hoosier Dome?

That Indy track mentioned above was also used at the HoosierDome ( 1/4 mile away from IUPUI/NIFS current track location) for the World Indoors in 1987, and multiple times for the indoor NCAA, also at the Hoosier Dome.

The Dome's no more, they deflated the roof 4 days ago. It is being torn down in the next few months, replaced by the new Lucas Oil Stadium.

Boise State owns the former USATF indoor track that was set up in Atlanta-Mondo surface. It is used every indoor season in Nampa, Idaho. Idaho State has a 200m banked wooden track that is set up in their fieldhouse in Pocatello, ID. University of Idaho has a 280ish meter flat track in Moscow, ID. The track that the University of Nevada owns was condemned. It is pretty old and was not maintained very well throughout it's life. It was the track that was in the Cow Palace in SF and was a part of the old indoor track circuit. Bill Cosby bought it and donated it to UNR. They are currently fundraising to buy a new 200m mondo track. The indoor track at the University of New Mexico is still there, but the staff has run into scheduling problems because they have to set it up in the city's convention center which poses problems when repeat weekends are booked years in advance.

here is the best list i have as of the 2008 indoor season (will not include tracks that were still under construction at that time, such as a&m):

Albuquerque, NM Convention Center

Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome

Blacksburg, VA Rector Fieldhouse

Bloomington, IN Gladstein Fieldhouse

Boston, MA Boston U Track/Tennis

Boston, MA Reggie Lewis Center

Bozeman, MT Worthington Arena

Chapel Hill, NC Eddie Smith Fieldhouse

Fayetteville, AR Randal Tyson Center

Indianapolis, IN Hoosier/RCA Dome (previous comments have addressed the status of this track)

Indianapolis, IN National Institute of Fitness and Sport

Lawrenceville, NJ Lavino Field House

Lexington, VA Cormack Fieldhouse

Lincoln, NE Devaney Sports Arena

Long Beach, CA Long Beach Arena

Louisville, KY Broadbent Arena

Nampa, ID Idaho Sports Center

New Haven, CT Coxe Cage

New York, NY Armory Track & Field Center

Pocatello, ID Holt Arena

State College, PA Ashenfelter Track

I think a&m's is finished.

ttgxc wrote:

funny that you say that IU Bloomington does not have a banked 200m track when I have raced on it many times, including last indoor season.

Yeah, sorry about that. As another poster pointed out, it's fairly new. My last indoor race at IU was in 2004.