By Gary Lloyd
TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Board of Education on Thursday approved of adding another Hewitt-Trussville Stadium naming opportunity to the list.
The track at Hewitt-Trussville Stadium has been added to a list that already includes 54 naming opportunities.
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This addition, however, has no cost associated with it, as the board of education has it reserved. The board last week didn’t discuss a possible name or timetable for when it could be named.
The track features eight running lanes, two shot put rings, two long jump pits and a discus ring on the main field. There’s also a discus ring and javelin runway on the new multipurpose field. The track will be home to the first Hewitt-Trussville Invitational April 17-18.
The first naming opportunity at Hewitt-Trussville Stadium was approved in January. Wendy Mann and Pam Smith purchased the naming of the radio room in honor of their father, John H. Payne, the past “Voice of the Huskies.”
The Trussville City Board of Education and Trussville City Schools Foundation in August 2014 released the list of naming opportunities for the new football stadium. The list includes 54 naming opportunities that total $521,500.
Categories include stadium structure and exterior areas, press box, home football locker room and concessions building, band/track locker room and concessions building, visitor football locker room and restroom building, visitor concessions building, soccer field, and track and field area.
Each category includes sub-categories, such as bleachers, ticket booths, suites, rooms, offices, concessions stands and more.
The Husky Walk from the field house to the stadium is $15,000, and the home bleachers are $25,000. The visitor bleachers are $15,000. Naming the home football locker room will cost $25,000, as will the visitor locker room/cheer practice area. Naming the soccer building will cost $25,000.
Nearly half the items on the list cost either $2,500 or $5,000.
All names are subject to approval by the Trussville City Board of Education.
For more information, visit www.tcsf.org.
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