We left Concordia at 6:00 and have seen 15 fields. All the Ft Zumwalt fields look the same and were locked up. Timberland is the best so far and they did not spend as much money on Liberty in Wentzville. St Charles field is different with the track going out the stands. Is that a regulation track? Heading to Francis Howell North and then Central.
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You need to see Festus's new facility. Haven't been that way yet, but I heard it's impressive.
I Googled that puppy and it is unusual but Barstow in KC has a track similar to that because of space. It is a 400 meter track. There are no set standards on the construction of a track. Thirty years ago if you could build a track it had 100 meter straights and 100 meter curves that were perfect semi-circles. Because of soccer, most new tracks are broken back with 85 meter straights and 115 meter curves, give or take a little, so the soccer field can fit inside. The broken back tracks are much faster because the curves are not as tight.
The tracks are not called broken-back because of the movie of a similar name but because the curves are not perfect semi-circles but have the radii changing several times breaking up the curvature.
The tracks are not called broken-back because of the movie of a similar name but because the curves are not perfect semi-circles but have the radii changing several times breaking up the curvature.
Warrenton was the first field today @ 8:30 AM and Windsor Imperial was the last at 8:30 PM. Saw 40 fields in 12 hours. Staying in Festus tonight.
Day two is underway, have seen St. Pius, Festus, Hillsboro, DeSota, Sullivan, Cuba and St James. Rolla is next then heading South to some place we have never been. Festus is doing some major construction, DeSota was nice as was St James. It was nice to see grass in Cuba and it looked great.
If you were already near St. Pius you should have seen Jefferson, Ste Genevieve, Valle, and Grandview. Herculaneum and Crystal City also have very unique stadiums.
Here is what we saw this weekend in order they were seen:
Saturday
Warrenton
Wright City
Wentzville Holt
Wentzville Timberland
Wentzville Liberty
St. Dominic
Ft. Zumwalt West
Ft. Zumwalt South
Living Word Christian
Ft. Zumwalt North
Lutheran St. Charles
Ft. Zumwalt East
St. Charles West
Duchesne
St. Charles
Francis Howell North
Francis Howell Central
Francis Howell
Marquette
Parkway West
Wentminster
Principia
CBC
Priory
Parkway Central
Parkway North
DeSmet
MICDS
Chaminade
Ladue Horton Construction work to build new field, saw a scoreboard
John Burroughs
Brentwood
Kirkwood
Vianney
Lindbergh
Mehlville - one of the most unusual press boxes we have ever saw.
Oakville
Fox
Seckman
Windsor Imperial - I live in Windsor the town and we get a lot of calls to our school thinking we are them.
Sunday saw first field at 6:20 and last one at 12:20
St. Pius Festus Nees a lot of work to the grass
Fest us - Working on stadium, was hard to get to, had to break the law
Hillsboro
DeSoto
Sullivan
Cuba
St. James
Rolla
Houston - not a very nice place
Cabool - loved their old gym building
Mt. Grove - One of my favorite place this trip
Logan Rogerville
52 fields in two day, hope to have the pictures loaded to facebook page this week.
Saturday
Warrenton
Wright City
Wentzville Holt
Wentzville Timberland
Wentzville Liberty
St. Dominic
Ft. Zumwalt West
Ft. Zumwalt South
Living Word Christian
Ft. Zumwalt North
Lutheran St. Charles
Ft. Zumwalt East
St. Charles West
Duchesne
St. Charles
Francis Howell North
Francis Howell Central
Francis Howell
Marquette
Parkway West
Wentminster
Principia
CBC
Priory
Parkway Central
Parkway North
DeSmet
MICDS
Chaminade
Ladue Horton Construction work to build new field, saw a scoreboard
John Burroughs
Brentwood
Kirkwood
Vianney
Lindbergh
Mehlville - one of the most unusual press boxes we have ever saw.
Oakville
Fox
Seckman
Windsor Imperial - I live in Windsor the town and we get a lot of calls to our school thinking we are them.
Sunday saw first field at 6:20 and last one at 12:20
St. Pius Festus Nees a lot of work to the grass
Fest us - Working on stadium, was hard to get to, had to break the law
Hillsboro
DeSoto
Sullivan
Cuba
St. James
Rolla
Houston - not a very nice place
Cabool - loved their old gym building
Mt. Grove - One of my favorite place this trip
Logan Rogerville
52 fields in two day, hope to have the pictures loaded to facebook page this week.
