In 1999, the Chippewa Chipps football team ended a 29 year drought and won the WCAL title. The work those student-athletes did with long practice hours and mental and physical prepartion was intense, but the payoff was that title and the opportunity to host a home playoff football game versus Martins Ferry.
Image taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKPnHZ9F6ls
Only problem was - the field was in such poor condition that the OHSAA wouldn’t let them play that game on their home field, so they had to play the first playoff game for them in decades in Wooster instead.
Our girls and boys soccer teams have had similar issues over the years - robbing our student-athletes the opportunity to play in games in front of thier community at the stadium they called home, that no doubt have had impacts on thier lives on and off the field.
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As many of us in Doylestown plan today to the head to the stadium that has been part of our community for generations, I urge all of you to look at the turf field and be proud. Proud that as a district and community, we have made the wise investment to showcase the pride we not only have into our student-athletes, but also as facility that is used for community youth programs, our marching band, our “Reading Under the Lights” literacy program, and our entire community year round.