Spectators & Livestream

All tickets (other than DA student tickets) will be reserved or sold through Durham Academy’s Hometown Ticketing site.

Events will populate this site when tickets are ready to be reserved/sold prior to each game.   

Each Durham Academy varsity basketball student-athlete will receive four tickets to each home game. These tickets are free of charge and must be reserved through the DA Hometown Ticketing website prior to each game. Every basketball student-athlete will receive a unique code at the beginning of the season that can be used online to reserve their four seats. These tickets are transferable. 

Please note that any unreserved student-athlete guest ticket will be transferred to the general admission ticket pool at 10 a.m. the day of the game so that other community members can have access to these tickets. These tickets are $5 and can be purchased online until the 250 spectator limit is reached. Student-athletes and their families will lose access to their four tickets if they do not reserve them by 10 a.m. on gameday.

Durham Academy will allot 50 tickets for the visiting team for each game. The visiting team’s Athletic Director will receive an online code that their community can use online to purchase visiting team tickets ($5). Any unsold visiting team tickets will be transferred to the general admission ticket pool for online purchase at 10 a.m. the day of the game.  

Durham Academy will allot 75 tickets for DA students for the student section. These tickets will not be reserved through Hometown Ticketing, but will be first come, first served at the ticket desk in Kirby Gym. Students will sign in at the ticket desk and receive a wristband signifying admittance to the basketball game(s). We encourage all students who wish to sit in the student section to arrive early. Any student who wishes to attend but does not wish to sit in the student section may purchase a general admission ticket.

The remaining tickets (approximately 25) as well as all unreserved student-athlete family tickets and all unsold visitor tickets at 10 a.m. the day of the game will be transferred to the general admission pool. These tickets are $5 and can be purchased online until the 250 spectator limit is reached.  

A small number of tickets (exact amount depending on the game) will be reserved for Durham Academy faculty and staff. Instructions will be sent to this group prior to each game with instructions on how to reserve these tickets (free of charge).   

All DA basketball team members (JV and varsity boys and girls) as well as immediate family members of basketball coaches and staff may utilize the two rows behind the DA bench and scorers table. These seats are not ticketed, and DA Athletics staff will monitor and enforce that only members of the basketball teams are allowed behind the bench.

Visiting teams may utilize the two rows of seating behind the visiting bench for the girls’ teams to watch the boys’ game and for the boys’ team to watch the girls’ game.   

In Kirby Gym

Middle School games played in Kirby Gym will not be ticketed, as attendance is not expected to reach the 250-spectator limit.  

In the Middle School Gym

Durham Academy will limit the number of spectators in the Middle School Gym on Academy Road to two spectators per participating student-athlete until further notice. Spectators will check in at the desk in the gym and give the name of the student-athlete they represent (names do not need to be given in advance). Faculty and staff can sign-in at the gym and will not be limited. This policy will also be in effect for visiting teams. The visiting team AD will be notified that each student-athlete can have two guests attend. (You may sign up as a gate check volunteer.)

After continued conversations with our medical staff, DA Athletics has amended our outdoor spectator policy. Effective Monday, Oct. 4, if you are unable to maintain 6 feet of distance between yourself and people who are not members of your household, you must wear a mask. Please allow 3 feet of distance even if you are masked to promote social distancing. Our indoor policy of all players, coaches and spectators being masked at all times will continue to be enforced.

For indoor events, please see the basketball ticket policy outlined above. At this time, we are not limiting spectators at any home outdoor athletics events.

After meeting with our Medical Advisory Team, Durham Academy is adjusting our mask requirement for Upper School indoor sport participants effective Friday, Nov. 26. We will continue to evaluate our policy for the Middle School over the next few weeks.  

Durham Academy will require all home and visiting student-athletes, coaches, staff and spectators to be masked at all times during indoor activities with the exception of the student-athletes actively participating in a competition. We ask that coaches enforce mask wearing while on the bench, in team huddles and in the locker room. Mask wearing will still be enforced for all student-athletes, coaches and staff during practices. All Middle School student-athletes will continue to practice and play in masks until further notice.  

Recognizing that not all schools will have the same policy and respecting those schools with differing policies, DA student-athletes will abide by an opposing school’s policies at their gym if requested to do so by their administration. For example, if an opposing team is required by their school to wear masks during competition in their home facility, our student-athletes will abide by that policy out of respect for the other school.  

This shift in policy is facilitated by a number of factors including our winter sports student-athlete COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the high vaccination rate among our Middle and Upper School students and Durham’s relatively low number of new COVID-19 cases. This policy also aligns with the latest protocols of Durham Public Schools and the NCISAA.   

Durham Academy’s Medical Advisory Team and Administrative Team continue to evaluate this and all COVID-19 policies. We will share updates as appropriate. 

At this time, per updated NCISAA guidelines and NCDHHS guidelines, DA is continuing to be “mask recommended but not required” for our outdoor student-athletes during practices and competition.