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Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a 14,407-seat multi-purpose arena in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The arena opened in 1989 and was named after Lawrence Joel, an Armymedic from Winston-Salem who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1967 for action in Vietnam in 1965. It is home to the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons basketballteam. An arena is a circular or oval shaped public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... County Forsyth County, NC Mayor Allen Joines Website Official Website Population 185,776 (2000) Winston-Salem is a city located in Forsyth County, North Carolina. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... A combat medic is a trained soldier who is responsible for providing first aid and frontline trauma care on the battlefield. ... This article is about the military award; for the computer game, see Medal of Honor (computer game). ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Wake Forest University is a private university that is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is known for its programs in the liberal arts. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... A team comprises any group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. ...
Wake’s small enrollment (3,600) is dwarfed by the size of their home coliseum (14,400), which makes for a 4:1 arena/student ratio (no other ACC school has even a 1:1 ratio).
LawrenceJoelColiseum is an all-purpose arena, designed as much for the concerts, rodeos and circuses that frequent the venue as it was for Wake Forest basketball.
Granted, the upper deck at The Joel is a terrible place to watch a game and no students should have had to sit up there, but this was a huge game with major ACC ramifications...
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