Sports Mecca

Manteca, a fast-growing city of 64,000 that is just east of the San Francisco Bay Area and just south of Sacramento, is becoming know as a great location for regional sports facilities and events:

• Big League Dreams, recognized as the premier developer and operator of amateur recreational sports facilities in the country, will open a 38-acre facility in Manteca in the fall of 2006.  BLD's fields are built as scaled-down replicas of famous major league stadiums, such as Boston's Fenway Park, Chicago's Wrigley Field, and New York's Yankee Stadium.  Manteca's BLD facility will include six replica fields for baseball and softball, covered sports pavilion for arena soccer, basketball and special events, two family-style restaurants, concession stand, eight batting cages, and two children's playgrounds.
  
• Woodward Community Park, a 51-acre recreation area that opened in 2005, brings the number of parks in Manteca to 50 covering over 400 acres.  Woodward Park has eight sports fields for soccer, football, baseball and softball, two sports courts for basketball and volleyball, tennis court complex, horseshoe pits, jogging path, group and individual picnic areas, and three children's playgrounds.
  
• Manteca Family Fun Center, a 64,000 square foot recreation and entertainment center that opened in 2003, has 48 bowling lanes, nine batting cages, sports bar and restaurant, video arcade, and other family-oriented amenities.

Manteca has long been a hotbed of local sports activities as well.  The city has four high schools that each field boys' and girls' teams in a dozen sports.  The city's twenty elementary schools have teams competing six sports.  Additionally, Manteca has over 500 youth and adult sports teams playing in organized leagues, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, football, and swimming.  There is also strong participation in other competitive sports such as gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, Taekwondo/karate, and judo.

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