The Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena, known colloquially as "The Ritter", is an ice arena in Rochester, New York. It is home to the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers ice hockey teams and the Genesee Figure Skating Club. Its official capacity for ice hockey games is 2,100. An arena is a circular or oval shaped (or sometimes rectangular) public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... Nickname: The Flour City, The Flower City, The Worlds Image Center Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Official website: www. ... It has been suggested that Computer Science House be merged into this article or section. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...

The building was erected in 1968 when RIT moved from downtown Rochester to a new suburban campus in nearby Henrietta. Frank Ritter, a furniture maker famous for his dental chairs, helped found the Mechanics Institute, a forerunner of the Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1885. The Ritter-Clark Arena on the downtown campus had previoulsy been named in part for Frank Ritter. Frank Ritter Shumway, Ritter's grandson and a major figure in U.S. Figure Skating, was a generous benefactor of RIT, and he ensured that the ice rink on the new campus was named for his grandfather. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Henrietta is a town located in Monroe County, New York. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... A benefactor is a person or other entity providing money or other benefits to another; the person receiving them is called a beneficiary. ... Rockefeller Centre ice rink An ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. ...

The arena is also home to the Genesee Figure Skating Club, founded in 1955 by F. Ritter Shumway. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The ice surface measures 85' by 185', with the goals at the north and south ends. The home bench, scorer's table, and penalty boxes are on the west side; the visiting bench is on the east side, with the men's and women's home locker rooms underneath the east bleachers. The Pike Press Box (room for 16 with 5 telephones and ethernet access) and the President's Box (stadium-style seating for 16) are two stories up from the ice surface, on the south side of the rink. The penalty boxes in this ice hockey game are shown here. ... A changeroom (in Australia, Canada, and other areas, including some parts of the USA, and also known as a changing room, change room, lockerroom, or locker room in the United Kingdom or USA) is a place where people go to change their clothes. ... The Press Box is a special section of a sports stadium or arena that is set up for the media to report about a given event. ...

A new scoreboard was purchased and installed in time for RIT's inaugural Men's Division I season, 2005-2006. Previous renovations in 2000 improved the lighting, acoustics, and concessions in the arena. The arena was ranked the second-best rink in the ECAC West (out of six) in 2003. [1] (The only better rink was the Utica Memorial Auditorium, which is a professional-level hockey arena.) The Ritter will be one of the largest rinks in Atlantic Hockey when RIT joins in 2006-2007. English Noun scoreboard /skawrbawrd/ a large board for publicly displaying the score in a game or match. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound, mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids. ... ECAC West is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Utica Memorial Auditorium is a 4,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Utica, New York. ... Atlantic Hockey is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. ...

External links

• Official web site
• RIT Library file on the Arena's name