Stan Sheriff Center
Encyclopedia
The Stan Sheriff Center is a 10,300-seat multi-purpose arena
in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii
, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
. Initially named the Special Events Arena in when it opened in 1994, the arena was later named after the late Stan Sheriff, a former UH athletic director who lobbied for its construction.
It is home to the following teams at the University of Hawaii
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Arena
An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators. The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the...
in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
. Initially named the Special Events Arena in when it opened in 1994, the arena was later named after the late Stan Sheriff, a former UH athletic director who lobbied for its construction.
It is home to the following teams at the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
:
- Men:
- Rainbow Warriors basketballHawaii Rainbow Warriors basketballThe Hawaii Rainbow Warriors basketball team represents the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in NCAA men's competition. The school's team currently competes in the Western Athletic Conference. The team's most recent appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was in 2002...
- WarriorsHawaii Rainbow WarriorsThe University of Hawaii Warriors, University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, or University of Hawaii Rainbows are the team names of the men's sports programs at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa....
volleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- Rainbow Warriors basketball
- Women:
- Rainbow Wahine basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Rainbow Wahine volleyball
- Rainbow Wahine basketball
Other events
- May 12, 1998 - The Miss Universe 1998Miss Universe 1998Miss Universe 1998, the 47th Miss Universe pageant was held at Stan Sheriff Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on May 12, 1998. Brook Lee, Miss Universe 1997, of the USA crowned Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago as Miss Universe 1998...
pageant was held at the Center. Brook Lee, the 1997 winner and originally from Hawaii, was the reason Donald TrumpDonald TrumpDonald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...
chose to hold the following year's event in her home state. - It hosts the Diamond Head ClassicDiamond Head ClassicThe Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic is a three-day invitational college basketball tournament held at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii on the campus of the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Each team plays three games, winners facing winners and losers facing losers. The Western...
preseason college basketballCollege basketballCollege basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....
tournament in December. - Annually, this place hosts a regional for the FIRST Robotics CompetitionFIRST Robotics CompetitionThe FIRST Robotics Competition is an international high school robotics competition organized by FIRST. Each year, teams of high school students compete to build robots weighing up to , not including battery and bumpers, that can complete a task, which changes every year...
. - As Hawaii's largest indoor arena, the Center is the site of many major concert tours in Honolulu. Concert capacity is 11,000 for an end-stage show, 11,300 for a center-stage show.
- World Championship WrestlingWorld Championship WrestlingWorld Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...
used the Center as its Hawaiian stop from 1994 until it folded in 2001
External links
- Official page for the Stan Sheriff Center from the UH Athletics web site