Admirals open new facility
In a project nearly four years in the making, Farragut High School’s football program now has another meeting facility.
The Admirals and head coach Geoff Courtney were able to utilize the new complex during the final week of spring practice. Farragut also has its old field house.
The new facility, however, provides for additional rooms for meeting space and each room can accommodate up to 24 players.
“Of course, we still have our old field house, but this is just another place where we can meet with our players and prepare for our next practice or our next opponent,” said Farragut coach Geoff Courtney, who succeeded his father, Eddie, as head coach prior to the 2024 season. “I believe this was a three-year project. I think we started projections and funding after the 2022 season.
“These are all small group meeting areas and each room’s max is 16 to 24 and so eventually, we could have our whole team in here; but now, it helps that you don’t have guys sitting on top of each other when we watch film. The way that it’s laid out, you’re not going to be overly crowded and you’re not going to interrupt somebody that’s in another meeting.”
The building was conceived and completed by members of the booster club, the community and Eddie Courtney.
“You had several members of the booster club over the past two or three years, and, of course, Coach (Eddie) Courtney was instrumental and getting this building completed,” Geoff Courtney said. “You had people in the community and people from the Town of Farragut, the state fire marshal and the Knox County engineers.
“It took a lot of effort from a lot of people, a lot of people in the booster club to get a
building like this on a public school campus. It’s all privately funded.”
