The Ice Sheet Ogden, Utah
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Located on the campus of Weber State University adjacent to the Dee Events Center, the Ice Sheet at Ogden opened in 1993 as a recreational training center for curling, ice hockey, and figure skating. The original cost was $6 million. A two-month project to replace the original sand-based floor with a more efficient concrete floor was completed in July 1999.
The official venue for the Curling Competition at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games was at the Ogden Ice Sheet. This facility, owned by Weber County and located on the campus of Weber State University, has hosted several World Curling Federation-sanctioned events. In addition, prior to the Olympics, the Ice Sheet hosted curling, hockey and figure skating competitions for Northern Utahns, averaging 20 hours per day of activity. It continues, well after the Olympics, to be a well-utilized facility for winter sports.
Today the Ice Sheet offers public skating, lesson programs, hockey, curling, figure skating and speed skating, plus ice shows, a pro shop, conference rooms and an outdoor terrace for meetings.The public locker rooms, which are more of an area with benches lined with carpet rather than a true locker room, contain 3 arcade machines, 2 vending machines, and a concession area. It also has an area above the public locker rooms in which it is traditional to serve dinner for the Weber State employees before they go to the Mascot Basketball Game each year. It is also used by other parties.
