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Lafayette, Louisiana
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Lafayette is a city located along the Vermilion River in southwestern Louisiana. The city of Lafayette is the fourth-largest in the state, with a population of 127,657 according to 2015 U. S. Census estimates and it is the principal city of the Lafayette, Louisiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, with a 2015 estimated population of 490,488. The larger trade area or Combined Statistical Area of Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City CSA was 627,146 in 2015, Lafayette is the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. Its nickname is The Hub City, the American city was founded as Vermilionville in 1821 by Jean Mouton, a French-speaking man of Acadian descent. In 1884, it was renamed for General Lafayette, who fought with, the citys economy was primarily based on agriculture until the 1940s, when the petroleum and natural gas industries became dominant. Lafayette is considered the center of Acadiana, the area of Cajun and Creole culture in Louisiana and it developed following the relocation of Acadians after their expulsion by the British from eastern Canada in the late 18th century following Frances defeat in the Seven Years War. There is also a strong Louisiana Creole influence in the area, Lafayette is located at 30°13′N 92°2′W and has an elevation of 36 feet. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 49.2 square miles. Lafayette is located on the West Gulf Coastal Plain, what is now Lafayette was part of the seabed during the earlier Quaternary Period. During this time, the Mississippi River cut a 325-foot-deep valley between what is now Lafayette and Baton Rouge and this valley was filled and is now the Atchafalaya Basin. Lafayette is located on the rim of this valley. This land, called the southwestern Louisiana Prairie Terrace, is higher up and not made of wetland like much of the areas to the south. The Vermilion River runs through the center of Lafayette, other significant waterways in the city are Isaac Verot Coulee, Coulee Mine, Coulee des Poches and Coulee Ile des Cannes, which are natural drainage canals that lead to the Vermilion River. Lafayettes climate is described as humid subtropical using Köppen climate classification, Lafayette is typical of areas along the Gulf of Mexico in that it has hot, humid summers and mild winters. As of the census of 2010, there were 120,623 people,43,506 households, the population density was 2,316.7 people per square mile. There were 46,865 housing units at a density of 984.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 68. 23% White,28. 51% African American,0. 25% Native American,1. 44% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 58% from other races, and 0. 97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 88% of the population
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a coeducational, public, research university in Lafayette, in the U. S. state of Louisiana. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and has the second largest enrollment in Louisiana, founded in 1898 as an industrial school, the institution developed into a four-year university during the twentieth century and became known by its present name in 1999. UL Lafayette evolved into a research university as noted by its Carnegie R2 categorization as a Doctoral University. It offers Louisianas only Ph. D. in francophone studies, the university has achieved several milestones in computer science, engineering and architecture. It is also home to a distinct College of the Arts,1898 – State legislation passed allowing for creation of Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute. 1899 – Board of Trustees Establish and donation of 25 acres of land by Girard family,1900 – Construction began and Dr. Edwin Stephens named President. 1901 – SLII opened September 18 with 100 students and eight faculty members,1903 –18 students were the first to graduate from SLII in two separate ceremonies. 1920 – Began a four-year course culminating with a bachelor of arts degree,1921 – SLII was changed into the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning. 1960 – SLI became the University of Southwestern Louisiana,1974 — The College of Sciences was officially formed. 1997 – Universitys privately held assets reach $75 million,1999 – USL was renamed the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. 1961 – Established the first university chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery for students. It is named the ACM Alpha Student Chapter 1962 – Offered the first master of science degree in science in the U. S.1994 – Created North Americas first francophone studies Ph. D. program. 2007 – The Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment successfully launches the State of Louisianas first university student built satellite,2008 – Ray Paul Authement, the university president from 1974 to 2008, became the longest serving president of a public university in the United States. The university is a member of the Southeastern Universities Research Association and is categorized as a Carnegie Doctoral University, UL Lafayette reported $51 million in external research funding from state, federal, private and self-generated funds for 2008. The university was rated one of the top 100 public research universities in the according to a 2010 report by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. In 2012, it became the first Louisiana university designated as an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, UL Lafayettes New Iberia Research Center in New Iberia conducts basic and applied research on several species of nonhuman primates including macaques, grivets, capuchins and chimpanzees. Founded in 1984, the now houses over 6,500 monkeys used for breeding. The center is also a breeding and testing facility, selling animals to other laboratories
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Seating capacity
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Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats hundreds of thousands of people. The International Fire Code, portions of which have adopted by many jurisdictions, is directed more towards the use of a facility than the construction. It specifies, For areas having fixed seating without dividing arms and it also requires that every public venue submit a detailed site plan to the local fire code official, including details of the means of egress, seating capacity, arrangement of the seating. Once safety considerations have been satisfied, determinations of seating capacity turn on the size of the venue. For sports venues, the decision on maximum seating capacity is determined by several factors, chief among these are the primary sports program and the size of the market area. Seating capacity of venues also plays a role in what media they are able to provide, in contracting to permit performers to use a theatre or other performing space, the seating capacity of the performance facility must be disclosed. Seating capacity may influence the kind of contract to be used, the seating capacity must also be disclosed to the copyright owner in seeking a license for the copyrighted work to be performed in that venue. Venues that may be leased for private functions such as ballrooms and auditoriums generally advertise their seating capacity, seating capacity is also an important consideration in the construction and use of sports venues such as stadiums and arenas. The seating capacity for restaurants is reported as covers, a restaurant that can seat 99 is said to have 99 covers, seating capacity differs from total capacity, which describes the total number of people who can fit in a venue or in a vehicle either sitting or standing. Use of the term public capacity indicates that a venue is allowed to more people than it can actually seat. Again, the total number of people can refer to either the physical space available or limitations set by law
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States
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Louisiana IceGators (ECHL)
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The Louisiana IceGators were an ECHL team based in Lafayette, Louisiana from 1995 until the end of the 2004–05 season. The team played its games at the Cajundome and were last an affiliate of the NHL Minnesota Wild. The Gators were an instant success upon their debut in Lafayette, despite the citys unfamiliarity with hockey. The team holds the top four regular-season average attendance numbers in ECHL history,11,433 in 1996-97,11,196 in 1997-98,9,857 in 1998-99 and 9,776 in 1995-96. The IceGators also hosted the eight largest and nine of the 10 largest postseason crowds in ECHL history, the team won division titles in eight of its ten seasons. The team never won an ECHL championship, and toward the end of its existence attendance dropped, the 2004–05 season was plagued with team financial issues, drops in attendance led the Cajundome to no longer allow seating in the 300 level seats. The final game only had an attendance of only 4,228, in January 2006, Cajundome officials announced that no investors had responded to a request for proposals that would have returned a hockey team to the dome for the 2006–07 season. 1995–96, Lost to Jacksonville 3-2 in first round, 1996–97, Defeated Mobile 3-0 in first round, defeated Birmingham 3-2 in quarterfinals, defeated Peoria 3-1 in semifinals, lost to South Carolina 4-1 in finals. 1997–98, Defeated Mobile 3-0 in first round, defeated Pee Dee 3-0 in quarterfinals, 1998–99, Lost to New Orleans 3-2 in first round. 1999–00, Defeated Mississippi 3-1 in first round, defeated South Carolina 3-0 in quarterfinals, defeated Greenville 4-2 in semifinals, 2000–01, Defeated New Orleans 3-2 in first round, defeated Pee Dee 3-2 in quarterfinals, lost to South Carolina 4-0 in semifinals. 2001–02, Lost to Jackson 3-2 in first round, 2002–03, Defeated Arkansas 3-0 in first round, lost to Mississippi 3-0 in quarterfinals. 2003–04, Defeated Pensacola 3-2 in first round, lost to Gwinnett 3-1 in quarterfinals, most Points, One Season –116 Best Points Percentage, One Season –.84 Highest Save Percentage By A Goaltender, Season –
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ECHL
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The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey, with teams scattered across the United States and one franchise in Canada. It is a tier below the American Hockey League, additionally, the leagues players are represented by the Professional Hockey Players Association in negotiations with the ECHL itself. Some 614 players have played at least one game in both the NHL and the ECHL. All but four National Hockey League teams have affiliations with an ECHL team with Columbus, Florida, New Jersey, however, these teams do sometimes lend contracted players to ECHL teams for development and increased playing time. The leagues regular season begins in October and ends in April, the current ECHL champion is the Allen Americans. Alaska, Bakersfield, Fresno, Idaho, Las Vegas, Long Beach, in a change reflective of the leagues now-nationwide presence, the East Coast Hockey League shortened its name to the orphan initialism ECHL on May 19,2003. The ECHL reached its largest size to date that season before being reduced to 28 teams for the 2004–05 season, the ECHL has attempted to be more tech-friendly to its fans. In 2008, the introduced the ECHL toolbar for internet browsers which gave users short cut access to statistics, scores, transactions. At the annual ECHL Board of Governors Meeting on June 15,2010, in Henderson, Nevada, the former American Conference was renamed the Eastern Conference, while the National Conference, was re-designated the Western Conference. Within the Eastern Conference, the East Division was renamed the Atlantic Division, the league lost its only Canadian team with the folding of the Victoria Salmon Kings subsequent to the 2010–11 season. The league increased to 20 teams for the 2011–12 season with the addition of the expansion franchise Chicago Express and the Colorado Eagles who previously played in the Central Hockey League. That number dropped to 22 for the 2013–14 season with the folding of the Trenton Titans, the league, because of geographical anomalies, has used unbalanced conferences and divisions, making for some extremely varied playoff formats and limited inter-conference play. Due to travel costs, the league has attempted to placate owners in keeping those costs down, the Board of Governors then votes whether or not to extend the franchises league licenses until the next Board of Governors Meeting. At the 2012 Board of Governors Meeting, the Board elected to limit the league to 26 teams, however, it was decided at the 2015 Board of Governors meeting that the cap should be expanded to 30 teams, hoping to eventually match the NHL and AHLs 30-team total. Reno has not had a minor hockey team since its WCHL franchise folded in 1998. After being listed for about a decade, Reno was eventually removed from the future markets page in spring 2016. However, in September 2016, new group called Reno Puck Club, LLC came forward. On February 8,2016, the announced its approval of the Worcester Railers HC as an expansion team in Worcester, Massachusetts
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Lafayette Roughnecks
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The Lafayette Roughnecks was arena football team based in Lafayette, Louisiana. The Roughnecks were members of the South Central Division of the National Conference of af2 and they played their home games at the CajunDome. They only played for one season before ceasing all operations after the season ended, Bill Verret, Statistical Operations Bill Heim, Stats Buford Jordan, Head Coach Dave Whinham, Head Coach Broderick Fobbs, fullback and linebackers coach Lafayette Roughnecks on ArenaFan. com
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