Helena High School Athletics
After the formation of a new Helena High school district by the Shelby County Board of Education, there became a need for a new High School Building along with athletic fields and support buildings for the new Football, Baseball, Track/Field, and Softball programs. The project consisted of a new Football field with natural turf and a track around the perimeter with seating for 4,200 constructed of aluminum with a premanufactured press box, a fieldhouse, home, and visitor concessions with toilet facilities were provided and designed in complimentary architecture to the High School Building. The baseball and softball fields were designed with identical 2 story Concession/ Press box buildings, Home, and Visitor dugouts. These were constructed out of Split-Faced CMU wood roof framing and prefinished metal roofing. Toilets for the fans were constructed in the visitor dugouts with a locker room as part of the home dugout. The package also included a band practice field and a soccer field. The site was on a hill side that had to be graded down in a cut and fill method to provide the plateaued areas for the school and athletic complex. In addition to this there were mines that required entrances to be sealed and shored.