Hartmeyer Ice Arena is a 3,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Madison, Wisconsin . It has ice surfaces for hockey , figure skating , and open skating, but can also have the ice removed for other events, such as indoor football .
14-533: Hartmeyer may refer to: Hartmeyer Ice Arena , a multi-purpose arena in Madison, Wisconsin, United States Helen Camille Stanley Hartmeyer (born 1930), composer and violist Robert Hartmeyer (1874–1923), a German zoologist Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Hartmeyer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
28-613: A part of two or more races. MGHS sports teams are nicknamed the Silver Eagles and compete in the South division of the Badger Conference . The Silver Eagles American football team won state championships in football in 1977, 1984 and 2013. The boys' swimming team won state titles in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. MGHS won a state championship in boys' cross country in 1959. MGHS has two competitive show choirs ,
42-471: Is the principal. The school was first established in 1955 to serve students from the Village of Monona (Now City of), and the village and town of Cottage Grove and formerly served students from Town of Blooming Grove . The current building was constructed in 1999. Monona Grove is 85 percent white, five percent Hispanic, three percent Asian, three percent black, and three percent of students who identify as
56-878: The North American 3 Hockey League approved the relocation of the Quad City Jr. Flames from Davenport, Iowa to Madison. The team was renamed the Wisconsin Whalers and has used Hartmeyer Ice Arena as the home venue since the 2013–14 season. In 2015, the Whalers moved to the Oregon Ice Arena in Oregon, Wisconsin . Monona Grove High School Monona Grove High School (MGHS) is a school in Monona, Wisconsin , United States. Mitchal McGrath
70-906: The Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team, but only served that purpose for four years before the team moved to the Dane County Coliseum, now known as the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on the campus of the Alliant Energy Center . Hartmeyer Ice Arena was constructed by Fenton Kelsey, Jr., a Madison business owner and avid hockey supporter. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, University of Wisconsin Athletics Director Ivy Williamson grew to enjoy watching youth hockey in Madison and began envisioning bringing
84-516: The 21st century, despite the arena beginning to show signs of age. With an older surface that did not fare well in warmer months and competition from newer facilities, the arena became a financial strain to the city. In 2004, it was sold, along with the Madison Ice Arena, to Madison Ice, Inc., a not-for-profit organization committed to supporting skating and youth hockey in the Madison area. In 2008, Madison Ice paid for improvements to
98-594: The Hartmeyer, losing to St. Mary's of Winona, Minn. , 13-6. Wisconsin Hockey grew quickly and spectator demand soon strained the capacity of the arena. While legendary coach Bob Johnson led the team through his first season at the helm, construction neared completion on the Dane County Coliseum , which featured a multi-purpose design capable of hosting hockey and a capacity almost three times that of
112-532: The Hartmeyer. The Badgers would move their hockey program to the Coliseum for the 1967-1968 season and play there until moving to the Kohl Center in 1998, winning five NCAA and 11 WCHA championships in that span. Scheduling conflicts would force Wisconsin to move postseason hockey games back to Hartmeyer twice in 1977 and twice more in 1978. Though no longer suitable for collegiate hockey, Hartmeyer
126-784: The Veterans Memorial Coliseum, meaning the Wolfpack was essentially reversing the course taken by Badger Hockey over 40 years earlier. To facilitate the games, the ice was removed from the arena surface and the Wolfpack's turf, recycled from the Pensacola Barracudas , was laid. On April 3, 2010, a game between the Wisconsin Wolfpack and the Miami Valley Silverbacks became the first non-skating event to ever take place in
140-509: The facility. The Wolfpack won the game, 38-32. Among CIFL facilities, Hartmeyer quickly developed a reputation as a very unwelcoming building for opponents due to its age, loud environment and low ceiling, which frequently obstructed kicks and passes. The Wolfpack won six of its seven home games in 2010, including a playoff game against the Fort Wayne Firehawks , before announcing the team would not return in 2011. In 2013,
154-415: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hartmeyer&oldid=1061469161 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hartmeyer Ice Arena The building was constructed to play host to
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#1732800987769168-492: The sport back to the varsity level at the university, which had not formally fielded a team since 1934. Sensing the need for a stadium -like facility were such a team to come to fruition, Kelsey stepped up to construct the Hartmeyer Ice Arena in 1960. In 1962, the university agreed to pick up hockey again and fielded a team by posting fliers around campus. The team played its first game in front of 695 fans at
182-492: The surface, allowing for the facility to be used year-round. On September 25, 2010, Hartmeyer celebrated its 50th anniversary with a free, open-skating day for the general public. In 2010, the Wisconsin Wolfpack of the Continental Indoor Football League announced plans to play its games at Hartmeyer. The move had historic overtones as the Wolfpack's inaugural indoor season was played at
196-860: Was still the premier skating, amateur hockey and youth hockey facility in Madison for many years and one of few in the region capable of holding over 3,000 spectators. The Patriots Youth Hockey Association began using the arena in 1984 and still holds many events in the facility. Since 2006, Hartmeyer Ice Arena has also been home to the Madison Eastside Lakers Hockey team a Co-Op team consisting of Madison La Follette High School and Madison East High School. Prior to 2006 La Follette and East had separate hockey teams. The Eastside Lakers formed another co-op that still occasionally uses Hartmeyer. Monona Grove High School calls Hartmeyer its home ice, having their own locker rooms for Varsity and Junior Varsity. The City of Madison operated Hartmeyer into
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