(Oakland) A new practice football field is in the works at Riverside.
Thanks to a generous donation from the Bentley Family, Riverside AD and football coach Darrell Frain says a 75 yard by 75 yard field is being formed behind the high school. It’ll be a much simpler setup than students driving to the old football field on the north end of town. “The Bentley Family has donated their equipment and their time to start the process and get it flattened out. We have a good situation and a good family taking care of us. We probably won’t practice on it this year, but it’ll be set up so in another year we are ready to go.”
Frain is entering his third season as head coach of the Bulldogs and calls this a great benefit to the program. “I think a great benefit. Just the convenience of getting out of school and walking out to the practice facility to be prepared. Right now it’s a time commitment added to us by having to go to a different site and then travel back to the building. The time commitment alone is probably the biggest reward for us.”
Plus they’ll have enough space to accomplish many of the things they need to. “When I first came here they had a small practice facility already behind the high school and the first day we came out and threw an incomplete pass and it rolled down the hill. We felt like as long as we had enough to do full special teams that would be best for us.”
Another plus will be players actually getting to use a locker room as opposed to having their vehicles double as lockers. Dirt work began in late May.
