The Round Rock Sports Center opened in January 2014 to support the city’s “Sports Capital of Texas” brand. The center has hosted a variety of events, from cake shows to wrestling tournaments. This graphic looks at some of the details behind the RRSC and how the facility operates.






Uses:



  • The RRSC has hosted 111 events since opening.

  • Twenty-three local sports organizations use the facility on a regular basis—of those 9 are school organizations.

  • Since opening, the RRSC has hosted one national championship event—the 2016 Collegiate Table Tennis Championship

  • Sports and events held at the RRSC include:
    Basketball
    Volleyball
    Table Tennis
    Fencing
    Cake Show
    Wedding Expo


Behind the numbers


RRSC General Manager Chad McKenzie said basketball and volleyball comprise about 85 percent of the events held at the center.


“Basketball and volleyball are definitely our bread and butter,” he said.


Nancy Yawn, director of the Round Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the CVB purposely wants to attract a diverse range of sports to the center.


“[We attract diverse sports to the center] so everyone in the community and everyone who plays a sport can play their sport there,” she said. “It’s a multipurpose facility and we want to make use of that, so I purposely go scope out things we don’t have.”


To help attract athletic competitions to the RRSC, Yawn said she meets with tournament holders from throughout the country.


“We’re able to promote our facilities and destination [through meetings with tournament holders],” she said. “We’re also able to do marketing in targeted industry publications where those same decision-makers are the audience.”






Attendees



  • The RRSC annually hosts about 70,000 participants

  • About 120,000 spectators annually come to the facility to watch the matches.

  • The center features:
    Capacity for 3,053 people
    Seating for more than 1,400 spectators
    More than 500 parking spots


Behind the Numbers


Yawn said when building the sports center, they assumed about 1.5 people would come with each participant.


“We do know that mom and/or dad and the siblings in most cases [will attend to watch the participants],” she said.


She said the facility’s comfortable seating has been appreciated by the spectators.


McKenzie said the center turned away about 150 hours of practice time for local organizations that groups wanted and the center did not have court space for.


“[The RRSC] could be bigger and we could still fill it up, I believe,” he said.


Yawn said sometimes when events require more space the RRSC and CVB look for partnership with other facilities in the area.






Facility



  • The sports center is 82,800 square feet

  • The court level can be modified to include:
    12 volleyball courts
    6 basketball courts
    3 NCAA basketball courts

  • Additionally it features:
    3 multipurpose rooms that break down into nine meeting rooms
    1 conference room
    530 parking spaces
    39 televisions
    10 full-time employees
    52 part-time employees


Behind the Numbers


McKenzie said the center’s meeting rooms are used by teams for storage as well as a place to meet before and after the games as well as during halftime.


“The coaches can talk to the teams and have their halftime pep talk,” he said.


McKenzie said the conference room is used as a team check-in area as well as a place to sell team merchandise.


The televisions are used as scoreboards as well as a means of advertising the center’s sponsors. He said a large video wall composed of eight TVs can display one large image or several smaller ones.


The 10 full-time employees help set up for events, market the center, and sell food and beverages as well as serve as custodians and maintenance, he said.


The 52 part-time employees are mostly high school and college-aged, McKenzie said.