Building a state-of-the-art ice arena

COLGATE ICE ARENA

In the fall of 2016, Colgate University formally opened The Class of 1965 Arena on its campus in Hamilton, New York.

Designed by Sasaki of Watertown, MA, the 2,222 seat, state-of-the-art facility will be the new home of the Colgate men’s and women’s ice hockey teams in addition to providing new locker rooms for The Raiders’ men’s and women’s lacrosse and soccer teams..
RLB provided cost advisory services for the construction of this new athletic facility.
The ice surface in Colgate’s Class of 1965 Arena will be known as Steven J. Riggs ’65 Rink in honor of the former men’s ice hockey team captain. Riggs was killed in combat in Vietnam in 1968 and was inducted posthumously into the Colgate Athletics Hall of Honor