District’s new stadium at Estancia gets its official opening

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Friday was opening day at Estancia High, where the school district’s new football/soccer stadium officially opened. It will be a shared facility for the Eagles and their arch-rival, Costa Mesa.

The stadium has FieldTurf and an all-weather track, which is pretty typical by today’s standards. Here is a story giving details about the building of Jim Scott Stadium -- named after the booster who basically helped make sure the thing got built -- along with some nice photos.

Although the press box is not pictured, and admittedly I have not seen it, I’m sure it is also typical by today’s standards, which is to say it’s too small. The history of high school football stadiums has proven that architects are completely clueless in this regard. That, or schools are cheap.

If you’d like to read the legal jargon dictating who stadiums and buildings within the school district can be named after, click here. It’s interesting, simply because of the legal mumbo-jumbo.

-- Martin Henderson

-- Image from www.nmusd.us/schools/estancia/