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HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' BASKETBALL IS COMING TO GREEN BAY
WPR News - High School girls' basketball is coming to Green Bay
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Wednesday April 25, 2012
by Patty Murray
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(GREEN BAY) Wisconsin's top female high school basketball players will compete in Green Bay starting next year. The championship tournament is moving to Green Bay after having been held in Madison since the mid-1970's.
The decision came down from the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Its board voted to keep the boys' tournament in Madison but to move the girls' competition to Green Bay starting next March.
It's a two year commitment which could be an economic boon to Green Bay, according to Brad Toll who heads the Green Bay Visitors and Convention Bureau, "It'd be kind of fun for the girls to win the title in Title town."
The tournament will be held at the Resch Center which is nearby Lambeau Field.
Scheduling conflicts at Madison's Kohl Center prompted the move. Toll says he doesn't have hard economic data but estimates the tournament will bring nearly 40,000 people from out of town. That's about half what he'd expect from a home Green Bay Packers game. Toll estimates the games will add around $3-million to the local economy, "But the prestige of hosting something like this too is something that we're excited about as we go out and look for baseball tournaments, soccer tournaments unrelated to the WIAA. Saying you're the host community for WIAA will help us get other events for the area too."
Toll says the Visitors and Convention Bureau is setting up events with the Packers and UW-Green Bay's well-known ladies basketball program to go along with the tourney.
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