Eureka City Schools started their renovations to Albee Stadium and Bud Cloney Field in May of this year, dedicating over $24 million to the Loggers’ outdoor sporting teams just a year after Eureka High unveiled their new Jay Willard Gymnasium. In a release from earlier this year, Eureka City Schools said that the upgrades to Albee Stadium will include rehabilitating the failing storm drain system that’s plagued the field, improving the facilities to support physical education and the Loggers’ athletic programs, the replacement of the existing track and field facilities, installation of all-weather surfaces for the football field, a new fieldhouse, and new public restrooms and concession stand. Over at Bud Cloney Field, the softball and baseball fields are getting new all-weather surfaces that will be much-appreciated with the downhill slope that the fields are planted on often ended with wet fields by the time football season rolled around.
There will also be a new parking lot built outside of Bud Cloney Field while removing the portable classrooms located by the field to open up space. The Loggers’ football team is not expecting to play their home games at Albee Stadium, with three scheduled home games expected to be played at either Redwood Bowl at Cal Poly Humboldt, or potentially College of the Redwoods’ new field. It’s unlikely construction of the field will be wrapped up by the Loggers’ home opener Aug.
30 in Week 1 against Arcata. The Loggers’ changes d.
