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basketball, volleyball, cheerleading,
wrestling and gymnastics.
Contact: Greater Raleigh Sports
Alliance, www.raleighsports.org.
Rocky Mount
At the intersection of I-95 and U.S. 64 in
the coastal plains
of North Carolina
is Rocky Mount,
the midpoint
between New
York and Florida.
Hotel rooms:
2,700+
Rocky Mount
Sports Complex:
The complex is a
143-acre, multi-
use facility that
includes six youth
baseball fields,
four interchange-
able baseball/soft-
ball fields, a
championship
baseball field, four
soccer/football
fields, a profes-
sional disc golf
course, two out-
door basketball
courts and an out-
door volleyball
court.
Contact:
Rocky Mount
Travel & Tourism,
www.rocky-
mounttravel.com.
Wilmington &
The Beaches
Wilmington is a
port city in coastal
southeast North
Carolina. The
Wilmington metro
area includes the beach towns of Carolina
Beach, Kure Beach and Wrightsville
Beach. While water sports such as swim-
ming, fishing and surfing are certainly
popular here, the area also has plenty of
venues for sports like baseball, softball,
tennis, soccer and lacrosse.
Hotel rooms: 7,805
Major facilities: Althea Gibson Tennis
Complex at Empie Park has 18 lighted
tennis courts. Cape Fear Regional Soccer
Complex houses seven soccer fields. Hugh
MacRae Athletic Complex has three soccer
fields, three softball fields, four baseball
fields and an equestrian center.
Contact: Wilmington and Beaches
CVB, www.wilmingtonandbeaches.com.
Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem sits in the center of
North Carolina in an area known as the
Piedmont Triad between the Blue Ridge
Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean.
Practically any sporting event is held
here, including soccer, wrestling, karate,
basketball, tennis
and football.
Hotel rooms:
4,600+
Major facilities:
JDL Fast Track is an
indoor track and
field facility that
houses a 200-meter
oval track with a
Mondo FTX sur-
face. The Wake
Forest Tennis
Complex has two
facilities: an outdoor
facility with 13
courts and an indoor
facility with eight
courts. The BB&T;
Soccer Park
offers 13 natural
grass fields and
stadium seating for
1,400. BB&T;
BallPark is
a Minor League
ballpark with
seating for 5,500.
Winston-Salem
Entertainment-
Sports Complex
has more than
90,000 square
feet of space.
Tanglewood Park
contains a BMX
track.
Convention
center: The M.C.
Benton Jr.
Convention Center
has 100,000 square feet of flexible space
and connects to the Embassy Suites and
the Marriott.
Contact: Visit Winston-Salem,
www.visitwinstonsalem.com.
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