{"id":756,"date":"2019-05-10T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=756"},"modified":"2021-10-08T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T21:33:26","slug":"ted-constant-convocation-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/10\/ted-constant-convocation-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Constant Convocation Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ted Constant Convocation Center, circa 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0Ted Constant Convocation Center<\/strong>, or the Ted familiarly, is home for wrestling and basketball games as well as concerts, lectures, and\u00a0Commencement<\/strong><\/a> exercises at\u00a0Old Dominion University (ODU)<\/strong>. The building is located in the\u00a0University Village<\/strong><\/a> along Hampton Boulevard between 43rd Street and 45th Street and is named in honor of\u00a0Theodore (Ted) Constant<\/strong>, a long-time ODU benefactor.<\/p>\n

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History<\/h3>\n

Construction began on the Ted in 2000 as part of the University Village project conceived by ODU President\u00a0James V. Koch<\/strong><\/a>. The 9,100 seat convention center opened in the fall of 2002. Prior to 2002, most of the basketball games at ODU were played at the Fieldhouse inside the Health and Physical Education Building. In 2019, in a 10-year, $4.25 million agreement with Chartway Federal Credit Union, the arena inside the Ted was renamed Chartway Arena.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/span><\/h3>\n
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  1. Old Dominion University Photographic and Multimedia Collection<\/a>,\u00a0Special Collections and University Archives, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529.<\/li>\n
  2. ODU Photographic Collection<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections, Old Dominion University Libraries.<\/li>\n
  3. Building the University<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Exhibit, 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    References<\/span><\/h3>\n
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    1. Bookman, Steven and Jessica Ritchie. Old Dominion University: A Campus History Series.\u00a0 Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, South Carolina, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The\u00a0Ted Constant Convocation Center, or the Ted familiarly, is home for wrestling and basketball games as well as concerts, lectures, and\u00a0Commencement exercises at\u00a0Old Dominion University (ODU). The building is located in the\u00a0University Village along Hampton Boulevard between 43rd Street and 45th Street and is named in honor of\u00a0Theodore (Ted) Constant, a long-time ODU benefactor. History… read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[5,6,7,11],"tags":[38,36,17,20,21,14,18,208,163,210,209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}