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Work gets started on YSU’s WATTS Center
HLecter:
Maybe they're waiting for more donations. Or there is some kind of advantage to waiting till 2011?
Did any of Obama's stimulus money go to this? If not, is Tim Ryan really doing his job?
I have a friend in the steel building business (big company) and those places "fly" up.
Smooth:
Where will the outdoor track be? It's kind of dumb to have a state of the art indoor facility and no outdoor. It's like having this indoor football facility, but no place to practice outdoors or hold home games. With this kind of philosophy, we should have torn down the football stadium and built it there. I assume they will be driving to Boardman HS for outdoor practice. No high school tracks have a steeplechase pit.
WolfZone:
It's an indoor football center first. It's a football field that happens to have a track around it. Not the other way around. It's built specifically for football hence the reason no one in the Horizon has one.
Do you want an outdoor track with a football field that is used by the football team to practice on once every 2 years, or an indoor track used everyday by every sport?
Wick250:
If you talk to our track athletes, they desperately wanted the indoor facility. During the summer, most see no problem practicing at their old high school. Distance runners have the perfect facility in Mill Creek Park.
Long-range plans call for an outdoor track west of Fifth Avenue. That can only happen with a new round of private donations. Compared to having your name associated with the WATTS center, that is going to be a very hard sell to the local fat cats.
WolfZone:
The school will need to step up for the track since a lot of students/staff will be using it for fitness and intramurals
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