HUB Sports Center keeps high hopes

The HUB Sports Center in Spokane Valley is closed, has laid off some part-time workers, and cleaning the facility as it attempts to help curtail the spread of COVID-19. The center executive director Phil Champlin said the center took a large loss in March when events were canceled.

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Wed., April 1, 2020

The HUB Sports Center’s Dads and Dudes event offers sports and other activities for “fathers or uncles or grandfathers” and sons. The photo shows participants at the 2013 event in Liberty Lake. The May 9, 2020, event is still showing on the HUB schedule, pending the lifting of state Gov. Jay Inslee’s order to “Stay Home, Stay Healthy.”

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Performance volleyball club’s Kaylee Skinner, 13, center left and Grace Holt, age 14, cheer for their Spokane-based team during a U-14 match March 25, 2016, at the Spokane Convention center. The HUB Sports Center in Spokane Valley also helps hold the tournament, but the annual March tournament was canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Cherylina Moore teaches a PiYo Aerobics class at the HUB Sports Center in Spokane Valley on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. The HUB closed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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