Dothan City Schools Superintendent Dr. Dennis Coe wants all the Dothan High athletic teams possible to have an on-campus home, at least for practices.
Just a few months after the Dothan City School Board approved a new athletic field house – giving Dothan High two such on-campus buildings – work is moving to a possible groundbreaking in the next couple of months.
The new facility, which will be 11,000-square feet, will be built on the back end of a current parking lot and on the current band field across the street from the existing field house. Behind the new field house will be a new 70-yard turf field for the football team to practice on and to match artificial turf installed at Rip Hewes Stadium and in other high school stadiums that have gone to turf fields.
Dothan head football coach Jed Kennedy said a third weight room would be added in the gym for indoor sports of basketball and wrestling. The wrestling team, which has practiced in the Commons area in the main academic building the last two years, will now move back to the upper room in the gym where it was previously before weights were moved into that room.
“If we can start construction in October-November, it would be great to have it by the following August for football season.”“Our goal is to try to touch as many sports as possible,” Coe said. “We want to do what we can to make improvements, especially for soccer, track and tennis.”
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