Does WHS need a new home for Arrows varsity football? (Audio)
April 20, 2022
Mike Tanner
WATERTOWN, S.D.–The Watertown School Board met for nearly two hours last (Tuesday) night to learn about possible upgrades to the school district’s athletic facilities.
One of the presenters at the meeting was Jason Kann with Co-Op Architects…
Kann showed slides of crumbling concrete and accessibility issues at Watertown Stadium, which opened in 1941. Kann says if that’s to remain a viable facility, some money will have to be sunk into it…
At the top of the “fix it list” is the track at Allen Mitchell Field. The track is heaving and cracking, and Kann says if nothing is done there, it’ll be unusable by next year…
Fixing the track will cost about $1.5 million.
Superintendent Jeff Danielsen says athletic facilities are important, but people can’t lose sight of the number one priority for schools, which is to teach kids…
One option in a facilities update is to relocate varsity football games from the Stadium to an artifical turf field inside a re-built track at Allen Mitchell Field (pictured), with adjacent practice fields.
It’ll be up to the school board to make those decisions at future meetings.
