The gurus at LBPOSTSports.com have been counting down the Top Ten ways to improve Long Beach sports, and today we come to #6.
A Soccer Stadium
But not just any soccer stadium, my friends–we’re talking about a bona fide, thousand-seat capacity soccer stadium, with lights and everything. You know, the kind that most NCAA tournament teams get to play in. As the economy tightens and facilities upgrades become more and more difficult, we’re going to need to prioritize, and right now, there isn’t a more talented group of athletes in Long Beach playing in a worse arena than the Long Beach State women’s soccer team, who last season won the Big West regular season title, hosted the conference championship, and made it into the NCAA bracket, all while playing at a field that simply can’t host night games, because there aren’t any lights. Moore League football teams have lights they can practice under, but LBSU soccer has to schedule marquee games at 4pm–seating at George Allen consists of four large bleachers pushed against a fence. That’s just silly.
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