The Best Seats
In The House

Home to many sports teams and clubs including basketball, volleyball, hockey, curling, soccer and football, Timmins High and Vocational School approached us to design and install a new bank of telescopic bleachers for their gymnasium.

The scope of the job, however, was anything but typical. Usual configurations and installations of retractable bleachers consist of a bank of bleachers located alongside a basketball or volleyball court, giving the facility the option to seat a crowd or retract the bleachers for use of additional floor space.

The management at Timmins High & Vocational School had a slightly different vision for their newly acquired telescopic seating. This bank of bleachers was to be installed atop the stage surface for use with alternate events such as graduations, complete with outward facing seating pointed toward the gymnasium or crowd for spectator events.

A great addition to any outdoor athletic field is an outdoor scoring table. When hosting sporting events and tournaments where statistics and scores are being accounted for, outdoor scoring tables are tough to beat in terms of function and reliability.

Our scoring tables are designed and constructed with a galvanized steel structure, which like our bleacher seating products, provides the end user with a rugged and maintenance-free structure they can count on for years to come.

We carry a variety of standard sizes to suit each facility's or program’s unique needs. Our outdoor scoring tables vary in length depending on the number of score keepers and announcers needed at any given time. Our 6’ length is perfect for up to three people while our 21’ length can accommodate multiple scorers, statisticians and announcers.

The City of Saint John in New Brunswick was looking for an ample amount of seating for the Canada Games Aquatic Centre. The facility aims to be a community-focused aquatic and fitness centre serving Grand Bay-Westfield, Quispamsis, Rothesay and Saint John. In addition to offering a wide range of aquatic programs and services, the Canada Aquatic Games Centre also provides a fantastic venue for aquatic sporting events. They turned to Sports Systems Canada asking us to design and install a solution for their indoor aquatic and fitness centre.

Our selection of outdoor bleachers ensures a spectator seating system perfectly matched for your sports field or athletic facility.  Our aluminum seat and decking design will ensure a lower overall cost of ownership versus outdated wood plank systems which require exhaustive maintenance and ongoing replacement.

Learning the specific factors that are involved in selecting the right bleacher system can be a challenge but our broad product line and knowledgable staff will make the process seamless.  Our standard outdoor bleacher sizes come in 3 row, 4 row and 5 row heights matched with a variety of lengths to guarantee to seat your legions of fans.

Looking for something a bit more versatile for your outdoor bleacher needs?  Be sure to evaluate our Portable Bleachers than can be hitched on to a maintenance vehicle in seconds and transported to a variety of locations when the need arises.

Given our years of experience taking arena bleachers to the next level through seating upgrades, Ominsport turned to us to design and manufacture the bleacher seating needed to suit their clients’ needs.

The bleacher system was all based upon the foundation of a galvanized steel angle frame under structure, combined with an elevated front deck with custom stair case access for patrons at either end.

To help keep maintenance low, the arena bleachers were designed with a fully closed aluminum deck design. This unique design eliminates any garbage or debris from falling beneath the structure and allows operations staff an easy to clean bleacher seating system. Our design team also was able to include notched out areas around the penalty boxes, allowing for a virtually seamless fit to the existing design of the arena.

This past June Sport Systems was awarded the project to remove the out-of-date wooden bleachers located in the gymnasium of St. Catharines Collegiate and replace them with our industry-leading KODIAK telescopic bleacher system.

The gym at St. Catharines Collegiate was to undergo a series of upgrades over the summer which included updating their wooden gym bleachers as well as the installation of a brand new wood athletic floor.

The job was broken down into a couple of phases as Sport Systems worked in conjunction with the school and the District School Board of Niagara and external contractors to ensure the job went smoothly.

As with any of our installations in Canada, this project was designed, manufactured and installed all in accordance with the Ontario and National Building Code requirements. The under structure was designed completely of galvanized steel and featured a clear span design allowing for circulation under the building. Access to the press box was provided via stair case access and landings to the ground level as well as a back catwalk allowing access to the exterior doors as well.

The press box itself measured 8’ x 24’ and featured a divided interior space providing three separate rooms for visitors, home and the media. The space inside the press box was completely finished and fully equipped with vinyl flooring, a suspended acoustical ceiling and painted vinyl gypsum board walls.

In addition to servicing and supplying a wide variety of institutions here in North America, we at Sport Systems are quickly creating an international demand for our product line. One area where we have noticed particular growth is the Middle East, where American style educational and athletic complexes are beginning to be developed at a rapid pace.

We recently were contacted by KAZOU Architectural Products located in Kuwait to supply athletic infrastructure equipment to the newly-built American United School of Kuwait.    

The American United School of Kuwait is an expansive 129 000 square foot educational facility which opened its doors in September of 2013 for students aged Pre-K – Grade 5, and has plans to open its middle school (Grades 6-8) this Fall of 2014. The school has continued plans to expand and open both its Middle & High School portions of the facility in fall of 2015.