Athletics and Entertainment near Lehigh Valley Real Estate

Posted by admin | Entertainment, Sports | Wednesday 5 September 2007 12:57 pm

Philadelphia Eagles
The Lehigh Valley is home to the pre-season training camp of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. They hold their pre-season training camp each summer on the practice fields of Lehigh University in Bethlehem. The camp draws some of the largest crowds of any NFL team’s pre-season camp.

Stabler Arena
Lehigh University’s Stabler Arena, is an indoor arena in Bethlehem. Stabler hosts regular sporting and concert events. The arena is home to Lehigh University men’s and women’s college basketball teams and also to the Lehigh Valley Outlawz, an indoor football team that plays in the Great Lakes Indoor Football League.

IronPigs Baseball
In 2008, the Lehigh Valley will open Lehigh County Ballpark, a 7,000-seat AAA minor league stadium, to be located in east-side Allentown. Beginning in April 2008, the stadium will host the Philadelphia Phillies’ new AAA-level minor league team. The Phillies’ former AAA team, the Scranton-Wilkes Barre Red Barons of Scranton, is now a Yankees affiliate. The 2008 move will bring the Phillies’ current AAA-level team, the Ottawa Lynx, closer to the franchise’s Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania fan base. The Lynx will be redubbed the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, a reference to the production of pig iron, a key ingredient in the steel-making process for which the Lehigh Valley area is world famous.

Groundbreaking ceremonies for Lehigh County Ballpark were held September 6, 2006, and construction is due to be completed in December 2007 in sufficient time for the April 2008 opening.

Lehigh Valley Rugby
The Lehigh Valley RFC rugby union team play their matches at Monocacy Park in Bethlehem.