Parking is desperately needed at CCHS for football! I hope the field house is going to have locker rooms for football so the teams don't have to waste time walking back and forth to the school at halftime.

 

Campbell County Schools will expand sports complex

 

ALEXANDRIA – Campbell County Schools will spend $6 million to finish its high school athletic complex and add 315 parking spaces.

 

Board of Education members are scheduled to review and approve construction company bids for the project at a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, at 51 Orchard Lane, Alexandria.

 

Construction is expected to begin in October on a 13,000-square-foot field house, tennis courts and a new parking lot to finish Campbell County High School’s campus south of Alexandria, said Superintendent David A. Rust.

 

A late June or July 2017 completion date is planned.

 

“We want it ready for the next football season,” he said.

 

A new concession stand, more restrooms and another ticket booth will be built to alleviate congestion, Rust said.

 

Building a new parking lot will create a second entrance to the stadium from old U.S. 27.

 

Friday night football turns old U.S. 27, now a side road, into an impromptu parking lot on game nights.

 

“Friday night we’ve got Highlands High School,” Rust said. “We will have to hire extra county police officers and they actually will park people on old U.S. 27.”

 

Building a field house, the biggest part of the project, will create a 20-yard indoor practice field football, baseball and soccer and cheer leaders will use.

 

Lockers will give tennis and other teams space inside the new field house to store their belongings. A small exercise area and training room will be included. New field house storage areas will allow expansion of a small weight room inside the high school, he said.

 

Tennis players will net a new home from the project. High school tennis teams currently play on courts at the middle school.

 

“We’re going to add six tennis courts so we’ll be able to hold a meet,” he said.

 

Playing home tennis games at the middle school, which was once the district’s high school, is confusing for visiting teams, Rust said. The middle school is several miles north of the high school on U.S. 27 in Alexandria.

 

Renovating the deteriorating tennis courts at the middle school is a possibility, Rust said.

 

The district has demolished the stands at the former high school stadium behind the middle school.

 

Preserving older parts of the middle school is a priority, he said.

 

Construction bids are being sought to replace skylights in the old high school gymnasium at the middle school. Middle school students use the gymnasium now.

 

“That gym at the middle school, it’s almost like Mecca, per se, it’s not going anywhere,” Rust said. “We need to make sure we take care of it.”

The current concession stand design is deplorable. The architect for that project should be relegated to designing dog houses....

 

Now if they can just install a high fence area where parents can drop their kids and lock them in during the game so they are not running around like wild banshees and acting a fool a CCHS game might be tolerable.....

The current concession stand design is deplorable. The architect for that project should be relegated to designing dog houses....

 

Now if they can just install a high fence area where parents can drop their kids and lock them in during the game so they are not running around like wild banshees and acting a fool a CCHS game might be tolerable.....

 

Just don't stand on the concourse between upper and lower bleachers. That's a no-no that is patrolled by the CC Police. :ohbrother:

Just don't stand on the concourse between upper and lower bleachers. That's a no-no that is patrolled by the CC Police. :ohbrother:

 

Somehow I feel so much more safe with them patrolling.....:deadhorse:

Love taking in a game at the new CCHS field, but I do miss the Pyramid at times.

This. Is. Awesome.

Way to step up Campbell County School Board. Can you all take over for the Boone County School board too! Make smart decisions for the benefit of the student athletes!

Building modern athletic complexes does not guarantee success of any kind, but it definitely shows an investment in the student athletes and is greatly appreciated by the players and parents.

CC has the nicest sports complex in NKY.

CC has the nicest sports complex in NKY.

 

They definitely have a cool set up. Add a field house and you have one of the best in the state.

CC has the nicest sports complex in NKY.

 

I agree...with the exception of their gym...if you even count that as part of what you're talking about.

I have only been there for soccer and track so far but that is a very impressive set up. I'm impressed that they may be able to add to it.

 

Way to step up Campbell County School Board. Can you all take over for the Boone County School board too! Make smart decisions for the benefit of the student athletes!

 

I understand the sentiment, but in Boone Co you have 4 high schools that have to be treated equally whereas in Campbell Co you have one high school that gets all of the attention and dollars.

 

Boone Co high school has many needs, one of which would be a sports complex. How about an auditorium that could seat more than the parents of the kids in the band or the drama department?

 

The money is spread pretty thin when you think of everything that needs to be addressed at Boone County High School, let alone the other three high schools in the Boone County school system.

If I could give them one piece of advice...build the indoor facility bigger! They look to be building it for 20 yards. HHS' is 30 yards and some feel it's too small already! My opinion, if you have the space, make it bigger! It's most likely less expensive to build it bigger now than to add on later when you realize "we should have made it bigger!"

Glad to hear they are upgrading the ticket booth area. if you get there too late, you'll miss some game time in that line.