Percy Perry Stadium
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Percy Perry Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Coquitlam, British Columbia. It was built for the 1991 B.C. Summer Games, and seats 4000 spectators [1]. Prior to 2006, the stadium had been named "Town Centre Stadium", but was renamed to "Percy Perry Stadium" in honour of long-standing track and field coach Percy Perry who died in 2005.
Percy Perry Stadium features a rubberized 400m running track, plus additional track and field areas such as long/triple jump pits and shotput/discus circles. In February 2007, the natural turf inside the track was replaced with FieldTurf, in order to expand the number of events and tournaments that could be held at the facility throughout the year.
Percy Perry Stadium is the home of Whitecaps FC Reserves soccer team, the Coquitlam Cheetahs track and field club, and served as the home of the defunct Tri-City Bulldogs of the Canadian Junior Football League. In addition to the B.C. Summer Games, the facility also hosted the 1993 Canadian Track and Field Championships.
As a warmup to the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in 2007, a friendly match between Scotland and Canada had been scheduled for Swangard Stadium in neighbouring Burnaby on March 23rd. Weeks of heavy rain had turned the natural turf at Swangard into muck, and at the last moment the game was shifted to Percy Perry Stadium and its new FieldTurf surface. This was the stadium's second-ever international match (the other was a U-23 match in 1996). In spite of poor weather and just a day's notice of the venue change, a sellout crowd of 4,265 watched Canada upset Scotland 3-1.
