2008 is the "Year of Alabama Sports" and Dothan has been awarded "Playful City USA" by the KaBoom Organization!

The City of Dothan’s Leisure Services Department has award-winning sports facilities, often the best in the state and in some cases the nation. Use of these facilities is both organized and open to the public. Please visit their website, linked above, for more information and contacts.

• Westgate Park, is one of the most comprehensive recreation parks in the Southeast with ball fields, tennis courts, indoor swimming pool, water park, and a BMX track.
• Westgate Softball Complex is well known nationally, having been awarded 26 national tournaments in its 17 years of operation. Westgate Softball Complex was the 2nd complex statewide to be inducted into the Alabama ASA Hall of Fame.
• Westgate Softball Complex was named 2003 Park of the Year
• The Dixie Youth Baseball complexes at both Eastgate Park and Westgate Park are among the finest in the Southeast having been host to quality events to include the Dixie Youth World Series
• Westgate Tennis Center has won all three national awards for outstanding facilities:
  • USTA
  • US Tennis Court and Track Builders Assocation
  • Tennis Industry Association
• Dothan "Rotary Miracle Field" is a specially equipped baseball field for disabled children and adults. Construction is expected to be complete in early 2008.

Dothan Leisure Services hosts some of the largest and most acclaimed events and programs in the state. According to the Dothan Area Convention and Visitors' Bureau, Dothan Leisure Services provides Dothan's largest source of tourism. Additionally, businesses and professionals relocating to Dothan repeatedly cite the outstanding recreation program as being important to their decision. In addition to those facilities listed above, Leisure Services also offers

• Westgate Softball Complex has won the national award for excellence for its national tournaments 11 of the last 13 years.
• In 2005, Westgate Softball Complex and the Marvin Lewis Baseball Complex hosted an unprecedented four Dixie Softball World Series Tournaments within Westgate Park in the same week

• Dothan Leisure Services hosts the annual Wiregrass Baseball Classic bringing top quality Division I baseball to Dothan at Westgate's Northcutt Field
• We are past hosts (1996) for the prestigious Dixie Youth World Series at Marvin Lewis Baseball Complex
• We served as the Host City for the 2004 American Legion State Championship

• In 2001, Dothan was recognized by the National Recreation and Parks Association and the United States Tennis Association as the nation's most outstanding public tennis program "The Excellence in Tennis Programming Gold Award". The award came with a $5,000 check.
• Dothan runs two national tennis tournaments yearly, one of which was named the "Southern Tournament of the Year."
• Dothan hosts an annual $75,000 women’s professional tennis tournament, one of the top 4 USTA professional circuit events in the nation.
• Dothan's State Mixed Doubles event brings over 500 players to Dothan annually

• Dothan annually hosts the Southern Regional Karate Championships bringing 800 or more people to Dothan from the tri-state region