2022 Year In Review - Dobson Arena - Vail Recreation District

2022 Year In Review - Dobson Arena

It was another busy year at Dobson Ice Arena, as we continued to juggle the increasing demands for ice time from a thriving hockey and skating community. We are proud to be a place where skaters learn to love the sport - whether it's the Avalanche Learn to Play program (where registration includes a full set of hockey gear for players to keep); or being the home of the Vail Skating Club (where two alumni were accepted into Disney on Ice in 2022); or hosting the Vail Mountaineer Hockey Club - whose PeeWee A team were champions of the 43rd Vail Sportsmanship Tournament. Looking ahead, there are Dobson renovation plans in the works. We're excited to see what the future holds!

Indoor ice rink with colorful lights and empty bleachers. — *The calm before the storm - the arena prepped for the Vail Ice Spectacular on Dec. 23, which welcomed Olympic skaters Nathan Chen and* *Mirai Nagasu, among others. It was a huge honor to have this caliber of talent at our home ice rink!*

An empty ice rink with wooden bleachers and international flags hanging above. — *The weekend of Sept. 23-25 saw a confluence of big events at Dobson Arena: a large* Hispanic dance was hosted that Friday night, with over 2,000 attendees. Then, first thing Saturday morning, the Vail Gymnastic Classic event kicked off with over 300 gymnasts participating and hundreds of spectators in attendance. In order to make the transition between the dance and the gymnastics meet, Dobson staff worked through the night and Jared Biniecki stayed up for over 24 hours.

Ice hockey player facing a goaltender preparing to make a save, indoor rink setting. — *We had a busy year of hockey with 61 U6 Hockey participants, 67 U8 Hockey participants and 26 Girls/Rec Hockey participants.*

Two people ice skating, one appears to be teaching or assisting the other. — *Our Learn to Skate program had 63 participants in 2022.*

People enjoying a bumper car ride on an ice rink. — *Ice bumper cars continued to be popular! Demand for ice time meant we couldn't offer as many public ice bumper car sessions as we wanted to, but the sessions we did offer filled up quickly.*

More Numbers:

Adult Leagues - summer: 26 teams, winter: 13 teams, fall: 12 teams
The Vail Yeti averaged 845 people per game

Stylized mountains with trees and a flag with text "2022 YEAR IN REVIEW".

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