Southwest Missouri has been having a high school gym building boom the last decade so I figured I would start a thread to show off the new Gyms. A lot of the small towns in the region treats HS basketball the way Texas treats HS football.
I didn't know that high school basketball generated that kind of interest, I was aware that HS football does, how can the schools finance those kind of facilities? Do they have boosters and TV deals, like they do in college? Some of those arenas would put most of Europe's top tier leagues teams to shame.
They are mostly paid for with property taxes for most/public schools.
Private schools rely on donations, the Springfield Catholic gym I posted earlier for example was mostly paid for by a donation from the family that owns an auto parts store chain which is why it it's named after them (O'Reilly's)
JJG beat me to some of them. Pics are harder to find than football, but there are plenty of damn nice ones. Basketball is growing in popularity quickly as the state grows.
Lancaster, Tx
Sandra Meadows Memorial Arena, Duncanville, TX
Hard to see, but Allen, like their football has one of the damn best gyms out there
for all those arenas in Texas, are they usually for a single high school or do multiple high schools share those arenas?
All the Missouri ones I posted are just for 1 school. The Springfield, MO school district has 5 public high schools, each have their own gym, but they haven't bothered expanding any of their capacities since they rent college gyms for their bigger games.
For example this is a Springfield Kickapoo vs Springfield Glendale game back in 2002 (6,458 attendence) when they used to play their big games at Missouri State's old arena.
In recent years they haven't been drawing as big of crowds for regular season games so they moved them to Drury University's arena(ncaa D2), same two schools playing earlier this year:
Springfield Hillcrest has the biggest gym in the district:
The Springfield, MO district also hosts the "tournament of champions" HS basketball tournament every January at Missouri State's JQH arena. It is the highest attended HS tournament in the country. The highest attended game at this year's tournament was 10,604.
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