The Powerade State Games of North Carolina will return to the Lake Norman region in 2013 and 2014.

The event is North Carolina’s largest multi-sport festival is expected to attract nearly 10,000 athletes and 20,000 spectators in the 2012 games in Winston-Salem.

Visit Lake Norman hosted the youth baseball, youth softball and youth soccer portions of the games in June 2010, which generated $2,171,300 in visitor spending for Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville.

For more information, contact Travis Dancy of Visit Lake Norman at 704-987-3300 or tdancy@lakenorman.org.