Facilities

Holmes Convocation Center

A cornerstone of the Appalachian State University campus, the George M. Holmes Convocation Center containing Seby Jones Arena serves as the home of Mountaineer men's and women's basketball, volleyball and indoor track and field programs.

Standing at the end of Rivers Street, the 200,840-square-foot structure also houses the Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise Science, and includes a multipurpose arena for community and cultural events, graduation and convocation ceremonies, trade shows, concerts, and athletic events.

The facility officially opened on Nov. 17, 2000 when App State men's basketball hosted North Carolina in front of a sell-out crowd. 

A number of renovations have taken place since opening in order to keep facilities for all programs who call it home state-of-the-art. In 2017-18, a brand new Daktronics video board will make its debut.

Made up of nine displays, the center-hung display will feature more than 1,200 square feet of displays and more than 2.1 million LEDs. The four main displays will each measure approximately 11.5 feet high by 17.5 feet wide and feature 6-millimeter line spacing to deliver exceptional image clarity and contrast to every seat in the arena.

The display configuration includes four corner panels between the main displays and an upper ring display circling the top of the system. The arena is also receiving four LED scorer’s tables along the sidelines. These display provide the opportunity to highlight sponsors throughout events as well as to provide supplemental content and statistics to the main displays.

A number of national music acts have performed at Holmes including most recently The 1975 and Lil Wayne.

With a capacity of 8,325, the building is currently the fourth-biggest in the Sun Belt Conference