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The Three Rivers Festival is an annual multi-day event held in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The festival lasts for nine days in mid-July, starting on the first Friday after Independence Day . Events include concerts, a community parade, amusement rides, a bed race, art and craft shows, children's and seniors mini-fests, an International Village, and a ...
Justin Anderson was named to the 2022 All–NBA G League First Team. Terry Taylor, Duane Washington Jr., and Keifer Sykes also played for Fort Wayne this season. During the 2022–23 season, the team's last in Fort Wayne, the Mad Ants returned to the playoffs with an 18–14 record, losing in the quarterfinals to Capital City Go-Go.
War Memorial Coliseum was known foremost as the home of the NBA's Fort Wayne Pistons for five seasons (1952–57) as well as the 1953 NBA All-Star Game and 1955 and 1956 NBA Finals. After the Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957, the facility continued to host at least one of their games every season from the 1958–59 to 1966–67 campaigns.
Originally called the Fort Wayne City Series, the name was changed to the Summit Athletic Conference in 1973, when Harding High School joined. [ 1 ] Elmhurst High School closed at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, with students being spread out between North Side , South Side , and Wayne high schools. [ 2 ]
The 2024–25 Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons men's basketball team represents Purdue University Fort Wayne in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Mastodons, led by eleventh-year head coach Jon Coffman, play their home games at the Hilliard Gates Sports Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as members of the Horizon League.
All teams had a deadline to voluntarily opt out of the 2020–21 season by November 30, [3] but two teams had been granted extensions: the Fort Wayne Komets and Toledo Walleye. [4] The Komets and Walleye were then approved to postpone their start to February. [ 5 ]
Chapman spent his final years in Fort Wayne and is buried in the city. [3] The team's home park was Memorial Stadium, opened in 1993; a franchise attendance record of 318,506 was also set that year. As part of the Harrison Square revitalization project, Parkview Field became the official home of the TinCaps at the start of the 2009 season. [4]
The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1944, and gave its first concert on October 18, 1944, at the Palace Theatre. The first music director was the German-born Hans Schwieger (1907-2000).