parking lot or hallways.
Marcus says he builds the base- ball team’s schedule around the open dates at a local field. The parks and recreation department and pub- lic schools get the first opportunities to reserve dates and Shiloh is left with whatever days remain. It’s not the ideal situation, but Marcus and student-athletes have made it work over the years. With growing enrollment, Shiloh and other schools in the community are reaching a breaking point. The city is renovating its public athletic fa- cilities, but Shiloh recognized the need was there and wanted to do something more. Shiloh’s project came with an $8 million price tag. Included in that was an eight-lane track, a football field and a baseball field. After a few “add-ons,” including artificial turf on the fields, the cost eclipsed
the $10 million mark. The school has a significant amount of fundraising left to do, but the excitement resonates throughout the halls at Shiloh and the city. Espe- cially since the school has embraced
entity to say, ‘We want to keep this to ourselves’ ...
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the idea of opening the doors of its facilities to the community. “I’ve always promoted it in a way where we’re certainly going to use the fields for Friday nights, our home baseball games and when they’re available for practices, but 85 to 90 percent of the time we’re going to open them up to the pub- lic,” Marcus says. “That’s why it’s here. It’s just the right thing to do
outfitted with artificial turf—the only one of its kind in the state, Marcus says. That hopefully will prevent delays like the one north- ern high schools currently are deal- ing with, where unseasonable con- ditions have not yet allowed teams to practice or compete outdoors. With the artificial turf fields, that is expected to change. “If we had our turf baseball field
and we’re not going to keep it to ourselves. It would sit empty if it was just for us.” A unique aspect of Shiloh’s
planned baseball field is that its outfield and infield will both be
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