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Athletics
At San Diego State University, you also get various athletics programs, facilities and services so that you get the finest educational and athletics experience. If you have a passion for games then you can ensure success in the classroom, on the field of competition, in the community and in the rest future.
Facilities at San Diego State University Athletics:
Cox Arena - This is one of the premier on campus basketball arena in America and provides you with 12,414 seat of the art venue so that the fans are close to the action and the floor. All functions, cultural events, concerts and special programs can be organized here. This has a unique open-air concourse design so that you can enjoy each moment to its best. Cox Arena is directly built into a canyon hillside and encloses one of the old horseshoe shaped Aztec Bowl. Two sections of this stadium's original concrete bleachers and cobblestone walls frame each side of the arena's north entrance. Cox Arena has also played host to concerts by artists such as Britney Spears, No Doubt, Barry Manilow, Aerosmith, Cher, and Eric Clapton. You get a total seating arrangement of top nine rows consisting of bench seats with the remaining areas as chairbacks. The total seating comprises of 3,395 bench seats and 8,065 chairs that are flexible and adjustable. There is also $1.2 million octagonal scoreboard having video replay capabilities. This facility has also seven locker rooms out of which two are complete team rooms.
Mission Bay Aquatic Center - The women's crew at San Diego State University has called the Mission Bay Aquatic Center as its home. This is beautifully located at the Mission Bay Park on the South End of Santa Clara Point off Mission Boulevard, in Mission Beach. Here you get 24,000 square foot redwood facility having one and half acre of land. You also get quality features such as three way rowing center, locker rooms with showers, lounge area, classrooms, reception offices, storage yard, complete shops and administrative offices. You can also enjoy ample beaches with grassy areas, picnic tables, swimming areas, a playing field, boat launching ramp, barbecues, lighted tennis and basketball courts and water recreation too.
Qualcomm Stadium - This is a multi purpose stadium located at the intersection of Interstates 8 and 15 in Mission Valley, less than five miles from the university. Some of the players or artists who have played here are Dennis Shaw, Brian Sipe, Isaac Curtis, Willie Buchanon, Todd Santos, Webster Slaughter, Rob Awalt, Don Warren, Dan McGwire, Henry Allison, Claudie Minor, Jesse Freitas, Craig Penrose, David "Deacon" Turner, Darnay Scott and Marshall Faulk. You have a seating arrangement of 71,400; added 31 luxury suites; created 7,600 club seats; and added a second Sony Jumbotron video board in the West End.
Tony Gwynn Stadium -This is one of the top college baseball stadiums in the country. Baseball America has ranked this Stadium as the fifth-best collegiate facility in the nation and the second-best park in the western half of the nation. There is a seating arrangement of 3,000, and that number could reach as high as 4,000 in the future. Out of the 2,200 permanent seats installed, 800 of them are armchair-style around the stadium at the field level and up through the plaza level behind the home plate area. Rest 1,800 are comprised of bleacher benches down both base lines.
The Sports Deck - This is located at 55th Street and Montezuma Avenue at the site of the old Choc Sportsman Oval. Here both men and women players can play soccer programs as well as women team also plays over here.
Aztec Athletics Center -This is a four-story, 130,000 square foot structure located just west of Cox Arena on 55th Street, just south of Peterson Gym. This is the first permanent home of the Hall of Fame. The 5,000-square foot museum is located on the first floor and is one of the centerpieces of the complex. There are new locker rooms, equipment rooms and an athletic training center for all men and women's varsity sports (except baseball and basketball) complete the first floor. The second floor has a recruiting lounge and 11 meeting rooms. The third floor has an academic center that features a computer lab, lecture rooms and private study rooms, as well as men and women's basketball and the administrative offices are at the fourth floor.
SDSU Tennis Stadium - There are 12 courts surfaced with Plexicushion Prestige surfacing (similar surface to what is used at the National Tennis Center) in the home of the U.S. Open, in New York
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