Hesperia just one of several county schools getting a football stadium at long last

After 22 years, the Hesperia High School Scorpions will play their first home football game ever tomorrow night and it’s hard to overstate how excited many residents are.

But the Scorpions aren’t the only team getting their own stadium this year:

Building a high school football stadium is a little more involved than just planting grass, constructing seats and establishing light towers.

Both Chino Hills and Rialto high schools know the trials and tribulations of building a football stadium. But the similarities stop with the end result. Chino Hills debuted its field this season, while the Knights figure to wait until 2007.

Add Hesperia High School to the list of schools that waited for a field of its own. Decades of frustration will come to an end for the High Desert school when Hesperia charges onto the Bermuda grass of its new Scorpions Stadium.

It is a case study of how one school endured so long without a stadium and how one community pushed through red tape to achieve its goal.

For years, Hesperia teams climbed on buses each week during the football season for games. The 1992 edition traveled for all 11 of its games, the result of not having an on-campus field.

“It’s going to be an awesome thing for the school,” said Silverado athletic director Kevin Watson, the former Scorpions football coach.

The article doesn’t talk about Hesperia as much as the lede suggests it well, but I think that means we’ll see another Sun article about the stadium this weekend.

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