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KNOWLEDGE OF ATHLETIC DESIGN VLK’s athletic facility experience ranges from Texas high school athletics to the Southeastern Conference Universities. We have taken on many specialty athletic facilities during our 37 years of experience, many of which have been one off facilities which are considered to be the best in their field. Creating district-wide athletic facilities creates unique challenges not typical of educational athletic facilities. These facilities are used for educational programs, athletic training, and competitions of varying scale, and are utilized by the community. The varying uses and different user groups create special challenges in the organization of the facility. The facility must be organized to allow use of specific areas, but must be secured to prohibit entry into areas not being used. Special attention is required to create flexible, secure, and adaptable facilities to support athletic teams engaged in competition and spectators attending events. The overall facility must flex or adapt to a changing special needs when large events are held in the venue. And the facility must adapt to allow community use of select portions of the facility. Competition events require a specific understanding of the space requirements of typical team facilities and the unique requirements of venues for athletic competition. Site planning must accommodate buses for competitions and private vehicles for participants and spectators. Service access and staging areas are needed to provide for special equipment needs and to provide for event staging. Specific program needs guide the design of facilities to house sports teams. Typical team accommodations include locker and team meeting space, short term equipment storage, training areas, and office and locker space for coaching
staff. In contrast, the team facilities for a district completion facility include these typical spaces, but may need to adapt to the changing needs of the facility. For example, four locker areas might meet the needs for many competitions, but a larger competition might require team spaces to accommodate more teams. On past projects, we have used operable walls to partition locker rooms to provide flexibility and increase the capacity for “team” spaces. Weight rooms and Training rooms in a shared use facility create unique challenges in creating a secure, safe environment that can be monitored and controlled with a minimal staff. Gymnastics, wrestling, and natatoriums have extensive storage requirements for sports equipment. The placement and access to this equipment storage is critical for the efficient set up for competition, training, special events or practice. We understand how to create a simple, secure solution to these storage needs. Arenas and competition venues present unique challenges that require an understanding of the special needs of the individual sports and the challenges of staging large events with multiple teams and fan bases. In addition, an understanding of how to design an arena requires special knowledge of sight lines for stadium seating and the special needs of event staging spaces. The goal in the design of a functional arena or competition space is to create a flexible venue that meets present needs and anticipates the challenges of unanticipated uses in the future.
Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Katy ISD Legacy Stadium - in Association with HKS
Project Information Year Built: 2017 Project Size 12,000 seat capacity 6,000 sf press box Cost: $61,758,334
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Legacy Stadium offers a venue for more than just football. The multipurpose facility includes a two-story press box, training rooms, and a 12,000 sf field house with spaces for police officers, paramedics and coaches. An elevated concourse allows spectators to see the field while waiting in line for concessions and a limited-access loop around the stadium provides for easy drop-off and pickup.
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Hutto ISD Memorial Stadium Improvements
Project Information Year Built: 2021 Project Size 800 sf field storage 3,600 sf concessions 5,500 sf pressbox 10,000 seat capacity
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VLK Architects, Inc.
Hutto Memorial Stadium Improvements to provide for seating capacity of 10,000 including new visitors field house, new concession and restroom facilities for home and visitors side, renovated scoreboard, new multi-level press box with filming deck, and site improvements to support these facilities.
Athletics Experience | Stadiums
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Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Crowley ISD New Central District Stadium
Project Information Year Built: 2022 Project Size 8,000 seat capacity Cost $52,000,000
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VLK Architects, Inc.
The CISD Sports Complex will build on the established traditions of CISD and addresses the need for a facility that provides for current programs and future program needs. The new CISD Sports Complex facility will be one of the three planned facilities on the Risinger Tract that will serve Crowley ISD community. The CISD Sports Complex is currently a finalist for the NCS4 Golden Eagle Award
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Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Eagle-Mountain Saginaw ISD Pioneer Stadium Renovations
Project Information Year Built: 7,500 seat capacity
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VLK Architects, Inc.
The Boswell High School Stadium Additions and Renovations include a new addition to provide football and gymnastics locker rooms, a training room, weight room, and an indoor practice field. The renovations include a pressbox replacement, as well as the addition of a home side parking lot, and new landscaping, a home side grandstand expansion, visitor grandstand replacement, new visitor bus parking, new perimeter fencing for safety and security, and the replacement of visitors' restrooms to serve the auxiliary field.
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Denton ISD Carrico Athletic Complex
Project Information Year Built: est. 2022 Project Size 7,000 seat capacity 9,700 sf press box Cost: $55,000,000
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VLK Architects, Inc.
The Carrico Athletic Complex makes good on a promise Denton ISD made to the Carrico family for a multipurpose facility that honors the tradition of Denton ISD. Serving all four district high schools, the Carrico Athletic complex includes 7,000 seat capacity, with a horizontal one story press box and intimate seating. Grandstands were purposely lowered and extended to the edges of the end zones so all seats are as close to the action as possible. Two large video boards keep the spectators engaged in the play on the field and both home and visitor locker rooms stage the athletes before, during and after the game.
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Aledo ISD Bearcat Stadium
Project Information Year Built: 2006
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VLK Architects, Inc.
The 8,000-seat, football, and soccer stadium features an 8-lane, all-weather urethane track and a synthetic turf field. A large, canopy-covered area is provided at the entrance to the stadium on the home side for vendors and booster clubs creating a carnival-type atmosphere. The space below the visitor stands is enclosed to provide storage for the facility, band, and drill team equipment. A concessions/ restroom building, located at the end of the home stands, houses the umpires’ dressing area for both the stadium and baseball/softball complex. A two-story press box contains tiered seating and provides spaces for announcers, press, radio, coaches, a film deck, and a multi-use room.
Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Arlington ISD Martin High School Stadium Renovations
Project Information Year Built: Est. 2023
The new athletic stadium at Martin High School will include approximately 10,000 seats, a larger press box, locker rooms, restrooms and concessions. The design includes a landscape buffer between the stadium and neighboring homes and will utilize modern LED lighting that will be directed into the stadium onto the playing surface more efficiently with considerably less spillage from the venue and can be turned on and off quickly. The venue allows the district to host larger events and accommodate larger district crowds with easier access to locker rooms, restrooms and concessions. The design also features the ability to visually rebrand the stadium according to the school is using it. With lighting, signage and technology, the stadium will shift to reflect the home team for that event.
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Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD Ranger Stadium
Project Information Year Built: 2012
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VLK Architects, Inc.
Chisholm Trail High School is the district’s third high school, developed to serve the rapidly growing district. Athletic facilities include a competition stadium with an eight-lane track, 50,000 sf field house, a two-story press box, a competition and practice baseball/softball complex and an 800-seat minor competition stadium. Core facilities include a 1,000-seat auditorium, a 1,800-seat competition basketball and volleyball gymnasium and an agricultural facility. Sustainable elements, including a geothermal mechanical system, irrigation for the entire site via the water in the nearby lake and use of a drip irrigation system that saturates the ground from underneath, will generate cost savings for the district.
Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Katy ISD Rhodes Stadium Renovations
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Project Information Year Built: 2021
VLK worked with Katy ISD to evaluate the parking lot capacities at Rhodes Stadium and developed a comprehensive plan for expansion to create two new lots and make updates to the existing parking areas.
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Athletics Experience | Stadiums
Texas Rangers Baseball Club Globe Life Field - in Association with HKS
Project Information Year Built: 2020
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VLK Architects, Inc.
The new stadium for the Texas Rangers, this “Next Generation Ballpark” is the cornerstone of the Texas Live! development, a world-class dining, entertainment, and luxury hospitality complex. Designed with a retractable roof for climate control and shelter, the ballpark delivers a series of premium experiences for the fans including clubs, themed restaurants, retail, and a hall of fame exhibit. The ballpark is a public-private partnership between the Texas Rangers and the City of Arlington. VLK was the project’s Associate Architect with Design Architect and Architect of Record, HKS, Inc.
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Athletics Experience | Fieldhouses/Weight Rooms
Denton ISD Bill Carrico Fieldhouse
Project Information Year Built: 2009
Braswell High School’s athletic program demanded a safe space for athletes. The district’s design called for new field houses that were both adjacent to the fields/ facilities where there athletes were training while providing separation of the male and female locker rooms. The common spaces were also designed to provide ease of access for all athletes including the indoor training facility with large windows to provide as much natural light as possible and creating coaches office and locker room spaces while maintaining proper coaching supervision among the athletes. Braswell High School has three field houses, one dedicated for football, one for soccer, track, and golf, and another for baseball, softball, and tennis. The football field house has dedicated locker rooms and meeting spaces for the varsity and sub-varsity teams, a state-of-the-art weight room, and a coach’s suite with locker rooms, offices, and conference space. The soccer, track, and golf field house includes locker rooms for each sport accessed from separate areas of the building for men and women. A centralized weight room and team meeting room work to both separate the locker room suites and provide access to any athlete. The training room for all athletes is located in this field house with access directly from the exterior. The baseball, softball, and tennis field house is separated into two buildings, one for the male athletes and one for the female athletes. The separation of the buildings creates a entry portal into the baseball/softball complex. Sustainable features were incorporated into the creation of the field houses, including adding polished concrete floors throughout the buildings, complete with the school colors and incorporating natural light into many spaces in the facility.
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Brazosport ISD Brazoswood High School Fieldhouse
Project Information Year Built: 2022
In May 2019, voters passed a $267 million bond program which included the replacement of the 50-year old Brazoswood High School Main Campus, Fine Arts, CTE and Field House. The District has engaged VLK Architects and the design development for a new multi-sport field house has been completed. The new Brazoswood High School Multi-Sport facility is phase one of a four-phase, $150 million project. This facility will open Summer 2020 at which time the old field house will be demolished, making room on the existing site to begin construction of the new Brazoswood High School main campus. The new two-story facility will be located on the east side of Slade Field offering direct student access during and after school hours. Students and visitors will access the facility from an expanded parking lot off of Brazoswood Drive. The facility will serve over 1,000 high school students participating in athletics and locker rooms for football, softball, soccer, track, cross country, wrestling, and powerlifting. State of the art amenities includes a 9,000 square foot strength and conditioning weight room, prevention and rehabilitation athletic training and rehabilitation room, wrestling practice mat room, and a multi-use meeting room with direct access to a second-floor covered observation deck overlooking Slade Field.
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Athletics Experience | Fieldhouses/Weight Rooms
Sherman ISD Sherman High School Fieldhouse
Project Information Year Built: 2020
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VLK Architects, Inc.
As part of the new Sherman High School, VLK designed new athletic facilities for the school. Athletic facilities included a new weightroom attached to the indoor practice facility.
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Keller ISD Timber Creek Stadium & Fieldhouse
Project Information Year Built: 2010
As part of the new Timber Creek High School, VLK designed new athletic facilities for the school. Athletic facilities included a new fieldhouse as well as a full 8-lane track and synthetic turf field for football and soccer.
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Athletics Experience | Indoor Practice Facilities
Crowley ISD Crowley HS and North Crowley HS Indoor Practice Facilities
Project Information Year Built: 2021 Project Size 43,460 sf New indoor practice facilities at CHS and NCHS to serve the band and all athletic programs that need a safe, dry place to train when the weather is cold and wet
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Athletics Experience | Indoor Practice Facilities
Keller ISD Indoor Practice Facilities
Project Information Year Built: Est. 2022
VLK is working with Keller ISD to build four indoor extra-curricular facilities for the district. Each high school will have its own facility that will provide a sheltered indoor practice space for multiple sports and fine arts programs.
Project Size 68,745 sf
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Athletics Experience | Indoor Practice Facilities
Sherman ISD Sherman High School Indoor Practice Facility
Project Information Year Built: 2021 Project Size 85,000 sf
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VLK Architects, Inc.
New indoor practice facility to allow for a protected environment in inclement weather. This facility was part of the new Sherman High School completed in 2021
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Azle ISD Indoor Practice Facility
Project Information Year Built: 2014 Project Size 44,500 sf
The 44,500 sf facility provides ample practice space for not only all of the field athletic programs but other programs such as dance, drill team, cheer and flag core. The pre-engineered steel building is signed to accommodate a 60-yard regulation synthetic turf field, drop down fabric nets for zoning the space and creating net enclosed practice areas. Sport dedicated storage and storage for adjacent sport venues is provided.
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Athletics Experience | Baseball/Softball Stadiums
Denton ISD Baseball /Softball Complexes, Ryan & Denton High Schools
Project Information Year Built: 2018
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VLK Architects, Inc.
VLK was hired by Denton ISD to perform additions and renovations on softball fields for Ryan and Denton High Schools. The goal of the project was to create parity with the facilities at the district’s newer high schools, and to repair inconsistencies in the fields to provide a safe playing surface for the athletes. The additions and renovations include new dugouts, scorers’ booths, spectator seating, bullpens, and batting cages, as well as additional parking closer to the fields.
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Athletics Experience | Baseball/Softball Stadiums
Denton ISD Baseball Stadium, Braswell High School
Project Information Year Built: 2018
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VLK Architects, Inc.
As part of the Bill Carrico Athletic Complex at Braswell High School, VLK provided three field houses, one for football, softball, and tennis. The baseball, softball, and tennis field house is separated into two buildings, one for the male athletes and one for the female athletes. The separation of the buildings creates a entry portal into the baseball/softball complex.
Athletics Experience | Baseball/Softball Stadiums
Midlothian ISD Baseball Stadium, Midlothian Heritage High School
Project Information Year Built: 2014
New 500-seat baseball and softball competition stadium included in the new high school project. This project included synthetic turf over playing surface except on the pitcher’s mound, three batting cages, two bullpens, and metal outfield fencing. The outfield area was designed to be utilized as practice football field.
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Athletics Experience | Gymnasiums
Azle ISD Arena
Project Information Year Built: 2015 Project Size 2,000 seat capacity Cost: $18,402,035
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VLK Architects, Inc.
A new competition level multipurpose arena for a tight knit single high school community full of pride for their teams. The new additions to Azle High School include a 2,000-seat competition gymnasium with varsity basketball and volleyball locker rooms and new Career Technology Education addition with shops and classrooms for automotive, agriculture, industrial arts, veterinary technician, and floral programs, as well as classrooms and laboratories for health sciences.
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Athletics Experience | Gymnasiums
Denton ISD Denton High School Competition Gymnasium
Project Information Year Built: est. 2022 Project Size 2,000 seat capacity Cost: $4,875,000
The Competition Gymnasium at new Denton High School will give the high school an arena style venue but with the flexibility of a multipurpose, multi sport gymnasium. Enter through the lobby, the grand stair takes the spectators to the concourse level where they can walk 360 degrees around the central court, much like the experience in an a traditional arena. From the concourse, you can look down into the large indoor weight room or out upon the landscape. Access to the seating is down from the concourse level for visitor side and both up and down for the home side. All 2,000 seats are telescoping bleachers to provide space for up to 6 basketball goals and 3 volleyball courts, once retracted. Making this gym a true multipurpose arena.
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VLK Architects, Inc.
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