Davis High facilities filled mid-season
PHOTO: The weight room is utilized by almost every sport at Davis High, with in-season sports getting priority.
By Alex Miyamoto,
BlueDevilHUB.com Staff––
With 12 winter sports teams all active during the same time, the weight room and other DHS facilities are struggling to meet the needs of all student-athletes.
The facilities feel the effect, “because we have so many sports here, which is a great thing, it’s also a double-edged sword because we don’t have the facilities to match that,” head coach for the DHS track team Spencer Elliot said.
Elliot has been a coach on the track team since 2004 and with more than 250 athletes on the track team, the team struggles to find allocated room.
One facility that faces frequent conflict is the weight room. The athletics assistant at DHS, Laurie Williams, is in charge of making a weight room calendar.
Coaches send in their requests for how often they want to get into the weight room and Williams is in charge of creating a fair schedule.
Programs that are in season get priority over sports that are out of season.
Athletic director Jeff Lorenson oversees the weight room schedule and although scheduling conflicts do come up, ”coaches are usually able to work together to find a way for all teams to use the room,” Lorenson said.
Sophomore Maya Yikilmaz is a sprinter on the track team and finds that the weight room gets crowded quickly. “It’s only manageable because we have different circuits, some people go outside and others inside. When (other groups) come in it gets really bad.”
The sprinters use the weight room two times a week with throwers getting in three to four times.
“It’s hard. We would benefit from more time in the weight room, but it’s not like we’re being treated unfairly,” Elliot said.
Elliot says that the team has limited space even outside of the weight room. “(On Jan. 18) for example, we couldn’t use the track because soccer was on there, so we ended up using the bike path.”
“Sometimes it feels like our sport doesn’t matter as much when we get booted off the track, it gets really crowded,” Yikilmaz said.
