In 1986, Sports Illustrated magazine profiled the Fox Cities in an article about sports in towns all over America. It noted the area "is a place where high school athletes are still heroes and where summertime baseball is both a pastime and a continuum of generations."

The International Softball Congress (ISC) world fastpitch softball tournament has been held 11 times at Sunset Park in Kimberly, one of the Fox Cities. The event attracts 48 teams from throughout the world and tens of thousands of spectators. The event was last held here in 2008.

Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium is the home of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Boys State Baseball Championship. The tournament moved to the Fox Cities in 1998 after more than 20 years in Wausau.

Since 2000, the Fox Cities have hosted the NCAA Division III Baseball World Series over Memorial Day Weekend .

The USA Youth Sports Complex in Appleton has 14 soccer fields, along with 4 baseball fields, and regularly hosts Babe Ruth, Little League baseball, and softball events. The 2009 14-year-old Babe Ruth World Series will be played on the Babe Ruth diamond. USA Youth will host the 20011 US Youth Soccer Region II Championships.

During the summer, the best soccer teams from throughout the Midwest converge on the Fox Cities for a number of premier soccer tournaments: The Flat Grass Showdown, Upper Midwest Soccer Classic, Cost Cutters Fox Cities Tournament, Spring Premier Challenge, and Tom's Drive-In Classic. Each event hosts more than 100 teams!

Each June the South Appleton Rockers Softball Association hosts over 40 girls fast-pitch teams at Appleton's Memorial Park. The tournament has become the largest girls' fast-pitch tournament in Wisconsin held at one facility. Cardinal Youth Softball hosts the ASA Class B Girl's Fastpitch State Tournament each July at four locations in the Fox Cities. The tournament has attracted more than 90 teams.

From 1994 to 2001, the best girls' high school volleyball teams in the state squared off in the Neenah High School Fieldhouse for the WIAA State Girls Volleyball Championship. More than 2,000 fans took in each of the six sessions at the tournament.

More than 300 disc golfers headed to the Fox Cities for the 1998 Amateur World Disc Golf Tournament. Golfers competed on three challenging courses at Plamann, Telulah and O'Hauser parks.

For more information about hosting your tournament in the Fox Cities call Pete Schueppert at 800-236-6673 or E-mail pschueppert@foxcities.org!