I love Hughes. Downsides would be, no warmup track, and all field events are outside the track besides shot and high jump. Sightlines aren’t great if they allow seating in rows below the concourse or keep aisle clear. Overall Hughes could work just fine if they are ready for that.
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Athletic Facilities
- Thread starter Phantom Hornet
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Green Laser
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Hughes was a great and historic track & field facility. When they took the field event venues off the field to make it more friendly for soccer they ruined it for major meets. The field events are shoved into the area south of the stadium formally used as the warmup area.
Super Hornet 2.0
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I still remember the major mistake I made at a HS invite at Hughes. At the time (mid-to-late '80s), the pole vault pit was along one of the sidelines. I missed my first two jumps because opening height was 9' (it was a major invite, not a regular season meet) and I hadn't even made the frosh/soph regular opening height of 7'6", so I got desperate on the last one. I committed the cardinal sin of pole vaulting: I moved my hands up the pole without adjusting my start point on the runway. That meant that my plant step was way under what it should have been based on my hand hold; I went up...and then came down the same way. Fortunately, I caught the front edge of the pit on the way down, or I'd have been going home in an ambulance. And with the pit being where it was, it was directly in sight of the stands in the vicinity of the 50 yard line or so.
I guess that's balanced by the time I held chains on the visitors sideline the year the Sacramento Sirens played there. I'd rather have been on their side, of course....
I guess that's balanced by the time I held chains on the visitors sideline the year the Sacramento Sirens played there. I'd rather have been on their side, of course....
Good post SLB, thanks for your contribution.
One venue is dealing with the City of Sac, while the other is going through the CSU so I don't think they will pull resources from each other other than potential sponsors. Hornet Stadium renovations have been on the masterplan for years so I don't anticipate any hold ups there, with the outstanding item being a rubber stamping from the CSU Board for the final plans. I have no idea, and don't really care, what the Republic have to go through with the City but given that it's slated to be smaller than a viable FCS stadium I'm not to worried about it competing with new Hornet Stadium for marque events.
From what I hear about new Hornet Stadium is that the university already has a considerable amount of monies earmarked for the project, and that's before bonding backed by the student fees is taken into consideration as well as whatever private monies are raised. That said, Dr. Wood still needs to bring this across the finish line because it's all just works at this point.
Green Laser
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I was coaching at the Hughes State Meet in 1997. As I was walking along the PV runway a pole shattered (exploded) sending shards of fiberglass into the vaulter, he had to go to the hospital. It was a real adventure when girls started vaulting, late 90s. Before they developed easier to bend poles there were a lot of accidents. I was at a meet at ARC when two girl vaulters fell into the box and needed to be taken to the hospital, they canceled the event. You have to be pretty fearless and adventurous to be a good vaulter. I used to recruit kids that I saw doing jumps on skateboards around campus to give it a try.
Some turned out to be pretty good!
