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Joseph S. Darling Memorial Stadium
Joseph S. Darling Memorial Stadium, located in Hampton, Virginia, serves primarily as a high school football stadium, and also hosts various track-and-field meets, as well as marching band competitions. The 8,000-seat brick facility opened in 1989. In 1928, the Darling Estate donated land on Hampton's Victoria Road, exclusively for the use of athletic facilities. The original stadium lasted until 1987, two years before the current stadium opened. The city's four high schools -Bethel, Hampton, Kecoughtan In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia, In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, Elizabeth City County. It was annexed int ..., and Phoebus- each use Darling Stadium for their home football games. References Sports venues in Virginia High school football venues in the United States American football venues in Virginia Sports venues in Hampton Ro ...
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Hampton, Virginia
Hampton () is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 137,148. It is the List of cities in Virginia, 7th most populous city in Virginia and List of United States cities by population, 204th most populous city in the nation. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads United States metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area (officially known as the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC MSA) which is the List of United States metropolitan statistical areas by population, 37th largest in the United States, with a total population of 1,799,674 (2020). This area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Virginia, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Virginia, Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia, Portsmou ...
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Bethel High School (Hampton, Virginia)
Bethel High School is a public high school located in the northwestern section of Hampton, Virginia, United States. Bethel is the third of four public high schools in Hampton City Schools along with Kecoughtan, Hampton, and Phoebus. History Bethel High School was built in 1968 to handle the overflow of Hampton High School and Kecoughtan High School students. Since the school board liked the Kecoughtan High School floor plan, Bethel's floor plan was designed similarly, with only a couple of differences (e.g., the courtyard and the 900 hallways). Bethel was named after the area of Bethel and also after the Civil War battle of Big Bethel. Since the school was in a rural location at the time, Bethel had the biggest school zone in the city. Most residents from Langley Field heading west toward the city of Newport News were all zoned for Bethel. Today the school is still considered the highest-populated school and still has the biggest zone in the city of Hampton. *In 2009 B ...
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Hampton High School (Hampton, Virginia)
Hampton High School is a public secondary school in Hampton, Virginia. It is the oldest of the four current high schools in Hampton Public Schools, built in 1956. It is an International Baccalaureate World School with the Diploma Programme. Hampton High is the first high school in the Hampton city high school division. History Hampton High School traces its roots to the first free school founded in the American Colonies, the Syms-Eaton Academy The Syms-Eaton Academy was America's first free public school. Also known as Syms-Eaton Free School, the school was established in Hampton, Virginia, in 1634. It began as the Syms School, through the donation of of land and eight cows for "a free ..., which opened on February 12, 1634, as the Syms Free School. Syms is the oldest free school and the first endowed educational institution in the United States. In 1634 Benjamin Syms left and eight cows to provide a free school for children of the parish. In 1659 Thomas Eaton, a 'cururge ...
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Kecoughtan High School
Kecoughtan High School (pronounced "KICK-a-tan") is a public high school located in Hampton, Virginia. The current grades offered are 9–12. Kecoughtan High School is one of four high schools located in the Hampton City Public School District. The other three are Phoebus, Bethel, and Hampton high schools. Feeder pattern *Asbury Elementary School *Barron Elementary School *Booker Elementary School *Langley Elementary School *Phillips Elementary School *Capt John Smith Elementary School *Jones Magnet Middle School *Syms Middle School *Eaton Middle School *Ann H. Kilgore Gifted Center History Kecoughtan High School was originally built in 1961–1962 to handle the overflow of Hampton High School, the oldest high school in the city. Since then Kecoughtan has been used as an educational facility for high school students in the Fox Hill area, a major neighborhood in the Hampton Roads region. Kecoughtan is the only high school near the neighborhood. The word Kecoughtan comes from ...
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Phoebus High School
Phoebus High School is a public high school in Hampton, Virginia. Named after the neighborhood and former town of Phoebus, Virginia, Phoebus, it is the newest of the four high schools in Hampton City Schools. It is considered unique for the IDEA Academy which includes Video Media Design, Engineering, and Video Game Programming. Phoebus continues to add nationally board certified teachers and several students have earned industry certifications via the CTE department. History Phoebus High School opened in 1975 as the newest high school in the City of Hampton, Virginia. It was designed as an "Open-Concept" school: Permanent interior walls were minimized in favor of partitions that could be adjusted depending on building needs. This was a popular trend in many schools built in the 1970s. Recent upgrades include interior walls, lights and switches, a renovation of the gymnasium and theater as well as the main entrances to the school. Today Phoebus is home of Hampton City Schools' "B ...
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Electro-Mech Scoreboards
Electro-Mech is an American manufacturer of electronic scoreboards and scoreboard accessories. The company serves all sports markets in the United States, but focuses primarily on smaller venues such as high schools, recreation parks, and college facilities and is most active in the southeastern United States. History Electro-Mech is an offshoot of a company based in Macon, Georgia called Peach State Amusements. The original company was known for building and servicing pinball machines. Peach State had a colorful history which included servicing various games that had been modified to facilitate gambling—an illegal practice in the state of Georgia. Peach State pursued the production of scoreboards in the early 1960s, but the company closed before having significant impact on the scoreboard industry. Electro-Mech was founded by a handful of former Peach State employees with capital supplied by Mr. Francis Shurling. Shurling was a native of Wrightsville, Georgia, and arranged f ...
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High School Football
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Track-and-field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events. Track and field is categorized under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running and racewalking. The foot racing events, which include sprints, middle- and long-distance events, racewalking, and hurdling, are won by the athlete who completes it in the least time. The jumping and throwing events are won by those who achieve the greatest distance or height. Regular jumping events include long jump, triple jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi events", such as the pentathlon consisting of five events, heptathlon consisting of seven events, and decathlon consisting of ten ev ...
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Marching Band
A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, often of a military-style, that includes an associated organization's colors, name or symbol. Most high school marching bands, and some college marching bands, are accompanied by a color guard, a group of performers who add a visual interpretation to the music through the use of props, most often flags, rifles, and sabres. Marching bands are generally categorized by function, size, age, instrumentation, marching style, and type of show they perform. In addition to traditional parade performances, many marching bands also perform field shows at sporting events and marching band competitions. Increasingly, marching bands perform indoor concerts that implement many songs, traditions, and flair from outside performances. In some cases, at higher ...
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Sports Venues In Virginia
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American Football Venues In Virginia
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