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==Sports== [[File:Ballgame.jpg|thumb|A view of the third-base stands of the [[Dell Diamond]], home of the [[Round Rock Express]]]] Round Rock is home to the [[Round Rock Express]], a [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]] [[Minor League Baseball]] team of the [[Pacific Coast League]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t102 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100304124100/http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t102 |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 4, 2010 |title=Official Site of Minor League Baseball and the Round Rock Express| access-date= July 5, 2010}}</ref> owned by RSR Sports (Nolan Ryan, Don Sanders, Reid Ryan) and was founded by Reid Ryan, son of Baseball Hall of Famer [[Nolan Ryan]]. As of August 2010, Nolan Ryan is also the new owner of the major league Texas Rangers ball club.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ryan victory felt in Round Rock |first=Jon |last=Garrett |newspaper=Round Rock Leader |date=August 6, 2010 |url=http://www.rrleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=25221&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&S=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715205933/http://www.rrleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=25221&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&S=1 |archive-date=July 15, 2011 }}</ref> Home games for the Express are played at the [[Dell Diamond]], a facility that is owned by the City of Round Rock and leased long-term to RSR Sports, which runs and maintains the facility. Round Rock opened a free public skate park in 2007<ref>{{cite news |title=Skate park to open July 20 |first=Sean |last=Bowlin |newspaper=Round Rock Leader |date=June 9, 2007 |url=http://www.rrleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=16378&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=158&S=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715205659/http://www.rrleader.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=16378&SectionID=1&SubSectionID=158&S=1 |archive-date=July 15, 2011 }}</ref> behind the Clay Madsen Recreation Center on Gattis School Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/skatepark|title=''Round Rock Skate Park''|access-date=August 11, 2007}}</ref> Round Rock is the self-proclaimed "Sports Capital of Texas".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportscapitaloftexas.com |title=Sports Capital of Texas |publisher=Sports Capital of Texas |access-date=March 19, 2010}}</ref> The city's Old Settlers Park offers a professionally designed disc golf course, cricket, cross country running, twenty-field baseball complex, five-field softball complex, and seven soccer facilities in addition to the Rockin' River Family Aquatic Center.<ref>[http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=1552 "Game on! Old Settlers Park"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712002858/http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=1552 |date=July 12, 2010 }} Retrieved August 3, 2010</ref> The 11th annual [[US Quidditch Cup]] championship [[Quidditch (sport)|quidditch]] tournament was hosted in Round Rock in April 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://usquidditchcup.com/2017/06/30/round-texas-to-host-us-quidditch-cup-11/|title=Round Rock, Texas to host US Quidditch Cup 11 β US Quidditch Cup|website=usquidditchcup.com|language=en-US|access-date=April 15, 2018}}</ref>
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