The Yakima Valley is the perfect place for your next sports event!
Athletes and event organizers throughout the Pacific Northwest appreciate the Yakima Valley for its outstanding sports venues, convenient location, supportive community and terrific weather. That combination makes Yakima the perfect place to stage your next event. And the Yakima Valley Sports Commission is ready to help make your event a success!
The Yakima Valley Sports Commission is a division of the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau. Our primary mission is economic development of the Yakima Valley through sports. The goal of our staff is to provide exceptional customer service to sports organizers who stage their events in the Yakima Valley.
Mission Statement: To advance the mission of the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau by stimulating economic growth through sporting events that generate economic impact for the Yakima Valley. Emphasis is placed on promoting the Yakima Valley as a premiere sports destination to event planners, participants and spectators while providing exceptional customer service.
Yakima Valley Sport Services
-Act as a liaison between sports event organizers and the local hospitality industry to generate the booking of hotel room nights for outside participants and associated attendees who travel to the Yakima Valley to take part in athletic events.
-Assist local sports venue managers in preparing bids and presentations to attract state, regional or national events to the Yakima Valley.
-Establish relationships with state, regional and local sports event organizers to maintain and expand current sporting events held in our community.
-Servicing sporting events held in the Yakima Valley.
-Take an advocacy role in the development or expansion of local sports venues.
-Act as a clearing house of information for local events.
Past events in Yakima:
- WIAA State Tourneys
- Sunfair Invitational Cross Country Meet
- Mid-Summer Soccer Classic
- Yak Attack 5-A-Side Soccer Tourney
- GYGSA Softball
Venues!
The Yakima Valley Sports Commission is a division of the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau. Our primary mission is economic development of the Yakima Valley through sports. The goal of our staff is to provide exceptional customer service to sports organizers who stage their events in the Yakima Valley.
Mission Statement: To advance the mission of the Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau by stimulating economic growth through sporting events that generate economic impact for the Yakima Valley. Emphasis is placed on promoting the Yakima Valley as a premiere sports destination to event planners, participants and spectators while providing exceptional customer service.
Yakima Valley Sport Services
-Act as a liaison between sports event organizers and the local hospitality industry to generate the booking of hotel room nights for outside participants and associated attendees who travel to the Yakima Valley to take part in athletic events.
-Assist local sports venue managers in preparing bids and presentations to attract state, regional or national events to the Yakima Valley.
-Establish relationships with state, regional and local sports event organizers to maintain and expand current sporting events held in our community.
-Servicing sporting events held in the Yakima Valley.
-Take an advocacy role in the development or expansion of local sports venues.
-Act as a clearing house of information for local events.
Past events in Yakima:
- WIAA State Tourneys
- Sunfair Invitational Cross Country Meet
- Mid-Summer Soccer Classic
- Yak Attack 5-A-Side Soccer Tourney
- GYGSA Softball
Venues!
Yakima Valley SunDome 1301 Fair Avenue • Yakima, WA 98901
Contact: Greg Lybeck 509-248-7160 Assistant General Manager State Fair Park
Website: www.yakimasundome.com
Constructed in 1989, the Yakima Valley SunDome is one of the most flexible multi-purpose facilities in existence. In its history, the SunDome has hosted a multitude of events, including CBA regular season and All-Star games, NBA exhibition games, and High School basketball and volleyball state championships. The facility has also played host to rodeos, MMA, monster trucks and motorcycle events.
Renovated in 2002, the SunDome now offers ten locker rooms, meeting space and additional seating. The facility will seat over 7,000 fans for a basketball game played with one court. For high school state tournaments, two courts are placed end-to-end with a curtain separating them. The two-court configuration allows access for approximately 6,200 spectators. For volleyball, the SunDome can host tournaments with between 3 and 8 courts. The SunDome offers great viewing with spectators very close to the action.
The SunDome has hosted state basketball tournaments since 1999. The facility has hosted two tournaments per year since 2001, and three tournaments since 2009. The Yakima Valley SunDome can be rented by promoters who wish to stage basketball games and other events.
Features:
Contact: Greg Lybeck 509-248-7160 Assistant General Manager State Fair Park
Website: www.yakimasundome.com
Constructed in 1989, the Yakima Valley SunDome is one of the most flexible multi-purpose facilities in existence. In its history, the SunDome has hosted a multitude of events, including CBA regular season and All-Star games, NBA exhibition games, and High School basketball and volleyball state championships. The facility has also played host to rodeos, MMA, monster trucks and motorcycle events.
Renovated in 2002, the SunDome now offers ten locker rooms, meeting space and additional seating. The facility will seat over 7,000 fans for a basketball game played with one court. For high school state tournaments, two courts are placed end-to-end with a curtain separating them. The two-court configuration allows access for approximately 6,200 spectators. For volleyball, the SunDome can host tournaments with between 3 and 8 courts. The SunDome offers great viewing with spectators very close to the action.
The SunDome has hosted state basketball tournaments since 1999. The facility has hosted two tournaments per year since 2001, and three tournaments since 2009. The Yakima Valley SunDome can be rented by promoters who wish to stage basketball games and other events.
Features:
- Ample enclosed, paved parking for patrons
- Up to ten locker rooms for use by teams and officials
- Four concession stands plus several mobile food vendors
- A large ticket booth with up to eight windows that face the parking lot
- Phone lines and internet service to accommodate media and tournament operators
- On-site catering
- Wireless access
For more information on sporting venues in the Yakima Valley, please visit www.YakimaSports.org
or call 573-3090.
Rich Austin
Director of Sports
Yakima Valley Sports Commission
10 N. 8th Street
Yakima, WA 98901
509-573-3090 Office
509-594-2742 Cell
[email protected]
Director of Sports
Yakima Valley Sports Commission
10 N. 8th Street
Yakima, WA 98901
509-573-3090 Office
509-594-2742 Cell
[email protected]
