The Herb Brooks Foundation, the foundation created by the hockey coach's family, has partnered with the National Sports Center to develop the Herb Brooks Training Center, a dryland and ice hockey training facility that is part of the Super Rink.

Each July, the National Sports Center plays host to USA Cup, the largest soccer tournament in the Western Hemisphere with over 1,100 teams and participants from 19 countries.

Following the successful U.S. bid for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, civic boosters in the Twin Cities proposed staging matches at the Blaine sports complex with a temporary arrangement to seat 45,000 spectators, but were not named in the final list of venues.

The largest crowd in NSC history was for a 2001 women's soccer match between the United States and Canada, when 15,615 fans watched a 1–0 U.S. victory.

[6] The NSC has hosted KTIS-FM's Joyful Noise Family Fest every year of its existence until 2022 when the festival was put on a indefinite hiatus.