Best Football Facilities?
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4A - Linn-Mar Marion very beautiful facility - three year's old. "Bowl" type setting seating 5,000 home side / 1,000 visitors. Enter on mezzanine level; large, heated restrooms and concessions very convenient; two shades alternating green field turf (to include soccer); large team locker rooms; nicely landscaped with large, colorful banners; great scoreboard (with video screen), sound system and lighting; beautiful eight lane red track (to include great track surface); elevator to large, heated press box; plenty of parking with easy entry/exit.
Linn Mar's stadium is great, for eastern Iowa they've got my #2 spot locked up.
#1- Dalzel in Dubuque is amazing! Their upgrade could not have been done any better, wow.
In what was the MVC, those two really separated themselves. Wahlert and CF use college facilites, obviously nice. Then Kingston, Waterloo Memorial, both Iowa City schools, Prairie, are all really nice facilities. And that leaves Xavier, high quality football played on the top of sledding hill, 3/4 of a mile from where you parked. Nothing about seeing a football game there is good, except the concession food.
#1- Dalzel in Dubuque is amazing! Their upgrade could not have been done any better, wow.
In what was the MVC, those two really separated themselves. Wahlert and CF use college facilites, obviously nice. Then Kingston, Waterloo Memorial, both Iowa City schools, Prairie, are all really nice facilities. And that leaves Xavier, high quality football played on the top of sledding hill, 3/4 of a mile from where you parked. Nothing about seeing a football game there is good, except the concession food.
If there was an award for going from the "outhouse to the penthouse," I would give it to North Polk. Any Heart of Iowa fans who have played on the old field in Alleman will be shocked when they walk into the new facility. Night and day difference for a class 2A school. Field turf has been so awesome for Spring soccer practices, when normally its so sloppy and muddy this time of year.
Not Mediapolis right now, but they will be starting to upgrade soon for their whole athletic complex including putting turf in which helps as they are in their first year of high school soccer (boys and girls). Can't wait to see the finished product. The football/soccer field will be inside the track which is behind the school.
I've not been to a lot of 1A fields, but I liked the atmosphere at Wilton when I covered their game against Regina last fall. The way they have it set up with trees lined around the field, it gives it a coliseum-like feel, which is only enhanced by how the team has a tunnel under the scoreboard that they enter/exit the field through. Can't comment on the quality of the playing surface, though, as I'm originally from southern Iowa and obviously have never played at Wilton.
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