The Allan Higgs Centre

The floodlit outdoor synthetic pitch which accommodates one football pitch or two netball pitches

The Alan Higgs Centre, opened in September 2004, is a leisure centre situated in about 80 acres grounds near to the River Sowe, on Allard Way in the southeast of Coventry, England.^[1][2] It was designed by RHWL architects,^[3] and built by Galiford Try plc at a cost of about 8 million pounds to their client and the current owner, the Alan Higgs Trust.^[4] The River Sowe is a River in Warwickshire and West Midlands, England. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Alan Higgs was a successful self-made businessman who became a multimillionaire mainly from his house building business in Coventry, as well as from other businesses in Birmingham, England. ...

The Coventry City Football Club's Academy is based at The Alan Higgs Centre.^[1] There are four outdoor grass football pitches, a synthetic indoor pitch, and a synthetic floodlit outdoor pitch.^[1] It is also a venue for county netball games,^[1] and there is a skateboard area.^[2] Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues due to the traditional colour of their strip (which itself is sky blue in honour of the sky blue cloth traditionally made in the city). ... A Netball game in Australia Netball is a sport similar to and derived from basketball, and was originally known in its country of origin, the United States, as womens basketball. Invented by Clara Gregory Baer[1], a pioneer in womens sport, it is now the pre-eminent women...

The judo and volleyball competitions of the 2007 UK schools games were held in The Alan Higgs Centre, being one of the venues for the games which were held in the city from 23 to 26 August 2007.^[5]

References