Early Look at Sacred Heart University Arena

Sacred Heart University (SHU) is putting the final touches on their beautiful, brand new Martire Family Arena located on the SHU West Campus. With only days to go, there still is some work to be done before the first Men's game on Jan. 14, 2023 against Boston College and first Women's game on Jan. 15, 2023 against Harvard, but you can tell it is going to be a great place to watch D1 college hockey!
SHU Men's Coach CJ Marottolo and SHU Women's Coach Tom O'Malley provided us with a private tour of the facility. It has all the amenities you would expect in a state-of-the art college arena and much more! The Coaches emphasized SHU's desire to have the facility be open to the community. It will be a venue for youth & high school hockey, figure skating and public open skating to go along with their college games.

[@rdiffley77]

Great job CJ and congrats to all involved in such an amazing project...so nice to see a coach who put in his time be rewarded with this next level space. Good luck Pioneers!

[@gamingwithscottie1478]

I want to go to this college in the future, so I have some suggestions for their athletics programs. I think they should make Seaside Diamond in Bridgeport a mini stadium to become their official home for baseball, with a lot of bleachers and a big screen. For football, they should get a bigger stadium, not huge, but a good size as one of Bridgeport’s redevelopment projects. For basketball, they should move to the Bridgeport arena as their permanent home. Finally, they should move soccer to their football, lacrosse, and track home, Campus Field. Would this be a good idea to grow their university? Go pios!

[@gamingwithscottie1478]

They should get a bigger football stadium.

[@Taqenhiphop]

They don’t need one

[@gamingwithscottie1478]

@@Taqenhiphop only if they get to become a bigger college