State track meet back to Welcome Stadium this spring?
- Thread starter Runningfast
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Jesse Owens Stadium is being refurbished including track replacement next year. 4/1 - 7/31
Runningfast
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Hopefully that means a return to Jesse Owens in 2025. Welcome Stadium is a wonderful facility, but it aint Jesse Owens.
psycho_dad
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The district will be paid roughly $60,000 to host the meet, according to the contract.
Interesting.
Interesting.
JAVMAN83
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Might be timed with the end of use in '24 by the Buckeye team. They certainly wouldn't care about HS t&f
SteepleDragon953
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They just completed a $30 Million renovation and update of the facility.
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‘A place where you can meet;’ Newly renovated Welcome Stadium hosts first game
“This was the original design and what we wanted to do was preserve that historical quality while really updating and renovating everything inside,”
www.whio.com
And they want to have it done by soccer season, I'm sure.
EuclidandViren
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FYI Seating capacity
Jesse Owens- 10,000
Welcome Stadium- 11,000
The most notable difference in the previous setup- the long jump is no longer next to the stands. The long jump has moved to the infield. This will be nice for the visitor's stadium and clogging up the area.
Jesse Owens is a top-tier track/soccer stadium in the country.
Positives- OSU is the U in Ohio. Center of the state, Columbus a lot to do and many hotel rooms.
Negatives- parking is terrible.
Welcome Stadium- was run by a corrupt AD and school system. I hope this puts them over the hump with the renovations and new leadership.
Positive- parking is better. Nothing else is going on around UD.
Welcome did host a College Football Bowl game 60 years.
Negatives- no discus ring anywhere on site- that will be interesting for those kids. No shade anywhere. No trees. Concrete jungle.
Jesse Owens- 10,000
Welcome Stadium- 11,000
The most notable difference in the previous setup- the long jump is no longer next to the stands. The long jump has moved to the infield. This will be nice for the visitor's stadium and clogging up the area.
Jesse Owens is a top-tier track/soccer stadium in the country.
Positives- OSU is the U in Ohio. Center of the state, Columbus a lot to do and many hotel rooms.
Negatives- parking is terrible.
Welcome Stadium- was run by a corrupt AD and school system. I hope this puts them over the hump with the renovations and new leadership.
Positive- parking is better. Nothing else is going on around UD.
Welcome did host a College Football Bowl game 60 years.
Negatives- no discus ring anywhere on site- that will be interesting for those kids. No shade anywhere. No trees. Concrete jungle.
Last I knew, there was a discus sector in that park northwest of the parking lot. There was a tree hanging over the sector which would occasionally get hit by a legal throw. Google Earth images are showing a lot of dirt being moved in that park in July of 2022, so it's hard to say what the status of that sector is.
Another option might be the UD throwing sectors on the other side of the boulevard by the Mariott. But, that's likely another rental contract to hammer out. (Pun intended)
psycho_dad
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Is it a 9 lane track? Do we step backwards and not have the at large qualifiers on the track, or do we get the same number and just have odd sections or, will there be more at large to fill out the lanes?
Picture in the OP link only shows 8 lanes.
psycho_dad
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That could be an issue. Finals are only 8 not 9. I cannot even remember what we did in 2021. I guess it would be the same. We had at large then and 8 to the finals. I'm over thinking.
CedarBuck92
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Appears to be a one year thing due to construction at Jesse O https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/...et-move-to-dayton/H5DZX5TYBFBZZGIB3HOUG4F73U/
JAVMAN83
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That's the way us older farts felt about competing in Ohio Stadium. THE stadium of Jesse Owens. THE stadium of Charles "Chic" Harley, the man who "built Ohio Stadium". Chic Harley, legendary OSU & Columbus North football/track star who competed and placed in the state meet back on the old Ohio Field before Ohio Stadium was ever a thought.
EuclidandViren
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Why not fill the lanes up? This was the question and then answered when JO was 9 lanes and we had 8 in a lanes.