While Oxford and Lafayette County residents bundled up, thinking about warmer weather this week, FNC Park director Brad Freeman and his staff have been going over the final details on what should be busy spring season.
Cold and wet weather has become much less of a problem for a facility like FNC Park, which features eight turf baseball fields. As a result of the improvements, the schedule is full of events, from youth baseball and softball tournaments to Oxford Park Commission soccer. As soon as the weekend of Feb. 15-17 arrives, Freeman said there is at least one event each weekend through the month of June.
A USSSA baseball tournament will begin the spring calendar for FNC Park. Freeman said that 118 teams were signed up on Jan. 30th.
OPC soccer begins on Feb. 19, and there are 840 youth signed up to play this spring, which is the largest amount on record. On Feb. 23rd, the facility will host a soccer tournament as well as a fastpitch softball tournament. March is even more booked up than February.
Coaches who are looking to sign up for an upcoming tournament at FNC Park can do so even easier than before through fncpark.com.
Ever since the middle of December, Freeman said the staff uses a two-month window to work on projects that they aren't able to get to during the year. More fencing has been installed by the parking lot to prevent wear on the grass. French drains were also installed at one of the baseball fields to help improve the drainage, while additional work was completed inside the hitting facility.
The ThorMobile app associated with FNC Park shows a radar and lightning map that will help when inclement weather approaches.
Birthday parties located inside the indoor activity center have become very popular over the last few months. There have been some weekends where the facility hosted two or three birthday parties.