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ICE ARENA HISTORY
The Ice Arena is presently in its 40thth full year of operation. The original intention was to operate the facility from September through May and close during the
summer months. However, the Ice Arena has evolved into a nearly year-round operation. The facility is open eleven months
of each year and closes only for five weeks in May and early June. During this “shut-down” period, major renovation, repair,
and maintenance projects are undertaken.
Without question, the Ice Arena is one of the most heavily used facilities on campus. From Labor Day through March the building
is open from 6:00 a.m. to midnight seven days a week. Additionally, the Ice Arena integrating the BGSU community and municipal
community. In addition to the Main Ice sheet (200’ X 85’), the facility also contains a Studio Ice sheet (80’ X 40’), a Curling
Ice sheet (150’ X 57’), as well as the Lounge and full-service Skate Shop.
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The primary mission and purpose of the Bowling Green State University Ice Arena is to allocate the utilization of the facility
as maximally as possible, with fairness and equity, among diverse constituent groups. The Ice Arena endeavors to accommodate
BGSU students, BGSU faculty and staff, and members of the Bowling Green municipal community and surrounding areas. Moreover,
it is the goal of the Ice Arena’s operation to strike a relative balance between hockey, figure skating, and curling activities,
as well as a number of other activities and programs. Certainly, the Ice Arena endorses the pursuit of these goals with the
university core values as primary concern (respect for one another, cooperation, intellectual and spiritual growth, creative
imaginings, and pride in a job well done).
The BGSU Ice Arena is committed, but not limited, to the following:
- Promoting and encouraging physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
- Providing the opportunity to participate in a variety of ice-related recreational activities.
- Encouraging and endorsing the values of sportsmanship, competition, fair play, and teamwork.
- Actively recruiting and retaining BGSU students.
- Effectively fostering the integration and cooperation of the BGSU and municipal communities.
- Providing exposure to BGSU to area school students, as well as their parents, by hosting a variety of special events (i.e.
various high school hockey tournaments, figure skating competitions, Falcon Hockey School, Ice Arena Evening Hockey School
and Summer Skating School.) Many of these participants and spectators come to BGSU from outside the immediate northwest Ohio
geographical region.
- Providing the opportunity for current BGSU students to enhance their formal education with positions of responsibility and
decision-making as Ice Arena employees.
- Encouraging and advocating a collaborative and cooperative effort on the part of all Ice Arena employees to evidence a “customer
first” philosophy, and strive to accommodate all members of our diverse patronage to the very best of our ability.
A varied and diverse constituency of BGSU and Bowling Green community organizations utilize the facilities at the BGSU Ice
Arena in the pursuit of their activities:
- BGSU Varsity Hockey program,
- men’s and women’s club hockey teams;
- BGSU Synchronized Skating team;
- HMSLS skating, hockey, and curling classes;
- intramural hockey, curling, and broomball
- BGSU Christian Student Association.
- Bowling Green Youth Hockey Association,
- Bowling Green Figure Skating Club,
- Bowling Green Junior Skating Club,
- Bowling Green Curling Club,
- Bowling Green High School Varsity and Junior Varsity hockey programs,
- Ice Arena Group Skating Lessons,
- individual figure skating programs,
- Public Skating sessions,
- high school hockey tournaments in November and December,
- and periodic figure skating competitions.
Additional patrons utilizing the facility include school and church groups, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other individual
private groups. Summer activities include the annual Summer Skating School, Falcon Hockey School, Evening Hockey School, and
various hockey leagues and private rentals.
Most recently completed is the expansion of the BGSU Varsity Hockey locker room to the north and west of their previous location.
Construction was completed in the summer of 2001 at a cost of $750,000.
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