Now in its 8^th year, the Rock 'n Roll ½ Marathon Virginia Beach is a marquee running event that takes place on Labor Day Weekend. With a race field of 22,000 runners and a pictureque finish along the Virginia Beach Boardwalk and Oceanfront, the Rock 'n' Roll ½ Marathon is a cornerstone of the Virginia Beach Sports Marketing event calendar. The course is flat and fast making it popular among athletes from around the country. A major, post-race, headline concert on the beach and a live band at each mile on the course keeps the pace rockin' all the way to the finish line. Past headline performers include: Counting Crows, Live, Three Doors Down, Journey, Sugar Ray and Collective Soul.

People
• 20,000 Official Entrants
• 60,000 Spectators
• 2,000 Volunteers
• 70 Million Potential Household
  viewers worldwide (Fox Sports Net)

Course
• 28 Course Clocks
• 17 Mile & Km markers
• 9 Medical Stations

Administration
• 750,000 Race Applications sent out
• 1000 VIP packets
• 1,500 Posters

Entertainment
• 750 High School Cheerleaders
• 1,500 Pom Poms
• 20 Bands
• 115 Musicians

Equipment
• 20,000 Pairs of Shoes and Socks
• 20,000 Runners T-shirts
• 20,000 Finisher's Medals
• 200 Sponsor banners along the course

Medical
• 4,352 Bags of Ice
• 2,500 Band-Aids
• 1,675 Boxes of Gauze
• 75 1lb Jars of Vaseline

The City of Virginia Beach and USA Field Hockey have a long-standing relationship of providing top quality events for athletes from around the world. From international events at the US Field Hockey National Training Center, located in Virginia Beach, to thousands of young players attending the National Indoor Tournaments in the Virginia Beach Convention Center, more than 5,000 US Field Hockey athletes call Virginia Beach home each year. For a complete listing of US Field Hockey events and more information on how to participate, log onto www.usfieldhockey.com

We have had: England, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, Jamaica, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Spain, South Africa, with the women and the men have played Trinidad & Tobago.

Fun Fact about watering the field of the Training Center:

• There are six guns on each field, each of which has a PSI of
  about 112.
• The combination of running the six at the same time on one
  field produces 1,080 gallons of water per minute.
• We are the only city owned and operated two astro turf field
  hockey facility.

Fun Facts about the National Indoor Tournament:

• Over 80,000 sq. ft. of sport court was layed down for the
  event. (that's almost 3 full tractor trailers)
• Over 2400 ft. of tape was used to mark the courts
• It took 1020 2"x4"x8' and 128 4"x4"x8' boards to line the
  courts' sidelines

The City of Virginia Beach hosted the National High School Coaches Association (NHSCA) for the first time with the National Wrestling Championships at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in May of 2007. More than 1,500 wrestlers from across the nation hit the mats at the Convention Center for the first day of the NHSCA National High School Wrestling Championships. The event will return for the next two (2) years.

NASCA was founded in 1989 and it's national office is located in Easton Pennsylvania. The NHSCA is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing leadership and support to high school coaches and their programs. Sports that NHSCA produce include Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming Tennis, Volleyball and Wrestling.

http://www.nhsca.com/

The first sand soccer event in Virginia Beach occurred in May 1994 when 26 youth and adult teams braved a blustery noreaster to do battle on six fields in the "Beach Soccer Kickout". The event, co-sponsored by Beach FC and the Virginia Beach Rotary Club, proved very successful and the good news about sand soccer in Virginia Beach began quickly spreading throughout the soccer community.

As Pro Beach Soccer expanded around the world, so did the North American Sand Soccer Championships, with over 750 teams competing on 50 fields in 2006. Included in the mix were nearly twenty states and a full range of festival amusements. A direct player/coach/fan population of 25,000 was associated with NASSC 2006.

http://www.sandsoccer.com/

Fun Facts about the North American Sand Soccer Championships:

• The 2007 NASSC hosted over 8,500 players from 19 states and
  several countries.

• The total number of NASSC players, coaches, families and
  fans exceeded 27,000.

• NASSC is the annual major charity event conducted for the
  development of the Hampton Roads Soccer Complex in Virginia
  Beach, one of the nation's premier soccer facilities, hosting
  400,000 visitors yearly.

• NASSC has been recognized by CosmoGirl magazine as one of
  the top 100 free summer attractions in the USA

• NASSC has been consistently selected as one of the "Top 20"
  summer events by the Southeast Tourism Society (STS)

USA Track & Field (USATF) is the National Governing Body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking in the United States.

USATF encompasses the world's oldest organized sports, the most-watched events of Olympic broadcasts, the #1 high school and junior high school participatory sport and more than 30 million adult runners in the United States.

http://www.usatf.org/