page_title: Lowell, Massachusetts
section_title: Teams
hierarchical_section_title: Lowell, Massachusetts / Sports, Teams and Athletic Venues / Teams
caption_attribution_description: English: UMass Lowell Div I Hockey playing at the Tsongas Center
context_page_description: Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 110,997 in 2019, it was the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts as of the last census and is estimated to be the fifth-largest as of 2018, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
  Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population.
  Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.
context_section_description: University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, NCAA Division I Hockey, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Track & Field, Field Hockey, Volleyball
  Lowell Spinners - Class A short-season professional baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox
  Lowell All-Americans - NECBL (Collegiate Summer Baseball)
  New England Riptide - National Pro Fastpitch League (Major League Softball)
  Lowell Nor'easter - Semi-Professional football team (New England Football League)
  Greater Lowell United FC - Semi-Pro soccer team (NPSL)
caption: Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell
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