The Saint Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex or MAC is home to 2 ice arenas, 2 baseball stadiums, and an executive par 30 public golf course. It was built in 1972 and has undergone 2 major renovations, one in 1993 and one in 2008, since it first opened it's doors to the public in central Minnesota.
Located next door to the Saint Cloud Veterans Administration Medical Center, the Municipal Athletic Center is also home to the Minnesota Veterans Plaza. The two St Cloud landmarks are well connected as the par 30 public golf course, Veterans Golf Course, land is being leased to the city by the Saint Cloud VAMC. Since the city took over the golf course in 1990 they have made great efforts to improve the course and have turned it into a great place to spend the afternoon with friends and sink a putt or 2.
The St Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex is busy year round. The 2 baseball stadiums, Dick Putz field and Joe Faber field, remain busy and are host to over 400 games between the 2 of them each season. The MAC is home to the St. Cloud Riverbats, our local team from the collegiate "wooden bat" Northwoods League, who average about 32 games per year. With the 2 baseball stadiums only about 100 feet apart the Saint Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex is the perfect place for tournaments and playoff games.
The ice arenas at MAC are kept busy too, hosting multiple teams throughout the area. Currently the arenas are home to 5 different (2 girls and 3 boys) high school hockey teams, the St. Cloud Youth Hockey Association, the St. Cloud Figure Skating Club and several hockey leagues.
The Athletic Complex has even been used for Rallies and for Public Speaking events. In 2004 President George W. Bush came to St. Cloud MN. A campaign rally was held at Dick Putz Field and I stood in left field without my baseball glove, but I did have my video camera. Whether the President of the United States of America is Democrat or Republican or Independent: if he, or at some point she, comes to town I am going to go. It is a little bit of history, and I was there at the Saint Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex.
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