Based at 3260 Rosecrans Street in Point Loma, San Diego's Midway District, the California State Games is the state's largest amateur-sports festival and a community-based member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, staging Olympic-style competition since 1988. Summer Games span 18-plus sports from archery and diving to pickleball, rugby, and surfing at sites across San Diego County, while the Winter Games bring youth ice hockey tournaments to rinks in the same athletics corridor anchored by Point Loma Tennis Club Community on the peninsula. Sports San Diego assumed management of the CSG in 2023 following the retirement of founding executive director Sandi Hill after 35 years, folding the Games into a broader sports-commission portfolio that includes the Trust & Will Holiday Bowl and the Rady Children's Invitational. Opening Ceremonies at Pechanga Arena draw more than 15,000 athletes, coaches, and spectators for a torch-lighting ritual modeled on the Olympic tradition, with medal-winning competitors qualifying for the biennial State Games of America. That national-qualifying pathway brought the 2024 State Games of America to San Diego, channeling athletes through the same performance pipeline that develops acrobatic disciplines at San Diego Circus Center in the Liberty Station arts corridor. The most logistically complex event on the calendar is the Summer Games weekend, which coordinates simultaneous competition across dozens of San Diego County sites while running a full Athlete Parade and medal-ceremony schedule at Pechanga Arena.