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Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World

Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex is one of the world's leading sports destinations, hosting some of the most popular professional and amateur sports events around. It's the ultimate sports experience for fans who just want to sit back and enjoy a game, as well as all of the athletes who compete here.
 

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Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex
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Imagine your first day at training camp at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex. the Multi-Sports Experience area will test your ability in an exhilarating variety of interactive activities including football, soccer, basketball and baseball.

Sports FansDisney's Wide World of Sports Complex is also the Spring training home of the Atlanta Braves, and the home of the Orlando Rays, the AA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Tickets to Atlanta Braves Spring training games can be added to you vacation package for an additional charge.

Mar. 4, 2004 at Walt Disney World officials today will announce an expansion of the resort's Wide World of Sports complex, further strengthening its position as the world's largest multi-sport facility for amateurs.
An industry source closely tied to the negotiations, who asked not to be identified, said Disney will break ground later this month on the project -- the first expansion of the complex since it opened seven years ago.
the 20-acre addition will increase the size of Wide World of Sports to 220 acres. the new area, which will combine four baseball diamonds with other multi-use fields for soccer and football, should be completed by August, the source said.

Wide World of Sports, which was completed in March of 1997, houses Cracker Jack Stadium -- the Atlanta Braves' spring training home -- along with four-and-a-half professional baseball fields, an indoor arena, a softball quadruplex, tennis and track and field complexes, and four other multi-use fields.
the campus hosts about 170 events a year, a number that should gradually expand with the new facility, to be named Hess Sports Fields for petroleum company Amerada Hess Corp.
the new venue will accommodate as many as 10 different sports, with the versatile outfield of the four baseball diamonds -- there will be no outfield walls -- being converted into field hockey or lacrosse fields. the facility also can accommodate flag football, ultimate Frisbee, windball cricket and archery, an Olympic sport that's been in demand at the Wide World of Sports for past events such as the U.S. National Senior Games.

Since it was built, the complex has been poised for expansion in an area of the park surrounded by greenery. the new venue will be carved out of some of that land beyond Cracker Jack Stadium and adjacent to the current multi-use fields.
This time of year, the complex is busy with professional baseball -- the first game of the preseason will be played today against the Los Angeles Dodgers -- and an annual program called Disney Spring Training.
During that 10-week stretch from mid-February to mid-April, high school and college athletics programs -- mostly from the North and Midwest -- come down to train at the facilities for a week during their spring breaks.

the expansion will allow Disney to cater to even more such schools and expand the program from just track and field, lacrosse and softball. the new fields will also allow amateur tournaments to expand from 60- to 80-team affairs.

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