The Martensville Sports Centre was built in 1984, with a curling rink added on in 1986. The arena currently has 5 hockey dressing rooms, one figure skating room and one referee room, seats 600 people and 150 standing. It is home to minor hockey teams from initiation up to midget, rec. hockey teams, a curling club and figure skating club. Public skating and shinny is held throughout the winter season with an upper mezzanine that is also utilized for fundraisers, tournaments, and other special events.
With the population of Martensville continually rising, (currently around 11,000), enrolment in ice sports has increased and has created a very high demand for a second ice surface.
In 2014, a group of volunteers from Martensville saw this need and decided to form the Martensville Community Recreation Project (MCRP). Since then, they have worked together to fundraise for a multi-purpose sports facility in the City of Martensville, raising $2,800,000 to date.
The multi-purpose facility will provide space for minor hockey, adult recreation hockey, CanSkate, Figure Skating, food services, ball hockey, indoor soccer, lacrosse and meeting rooms. This facility will be available to all sport, recreation and cultural groups requesting space for their programs with hockey, figure skating and soccer being the primary users of the facility.
One of the fundraisers that has been very popular is their annual NHL hockey draft. When the MCRP hosted this event for the first time in 2015 it started with 24 teams and has increased over the years to 40 teams. This year the MCRP will be hosting the hockey draft fundraising event on Saturday, April 30th. The committee is excited to be able to host this tournament once again after a two-year hiatus because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The event will be held at the North Ridge Community Centre with doors opening at 4:30 pm. The cost is $620 per team (table of 8 includes supper). Prize for first place is $5000, second place is $2500, third place is $1000, and 16th place is $600.
Spots are filling up fast so if you are interested in attending this event you can register at mcrp.ca/events/hockeydraft2022. All information about the event and how the draft works, rules etc. can be found on their website at mcrp.ca.
