BY NATE KOTISSO | THE MONITOR
Renovations to Mission CISD’s Tom Landry Stadium are ongoing, but progress is being made.
The district expected the stadium’s elevator to arrive from Houston in August, but Hurricane Harvey kept it in Southeast Texas until the halfway point of September. Mission CISD athletic director Leticia Ibarra said the elevator made it to Mission and now awaits official inspection.
Ibarra said the stadium scoreboard is in the process of being installed.
“Daktronics (the scoreboard company) finally showed up on Monday,” Ibarra said. “They’re working on the scoreboard and all of the electricals, which include running the electricity and sound into the rooms of our press box.”
Ibarra and the district do not know the amount of time it will take to complete elevator inspection and scoreboard instillation. The district’s hope is for Mission High and Mission Veterans to each play at least one home game in the renovated facility before the end of the year.
In the meantime, the schedules for Mission High (3-2) and Mission Veterans (5-0) are in doubt beyond Week 7 — the time of the next scheduled home games for both teams. During Week 7, Mission High will host La Joya Juarez-Lincoln on Thursday, Oct. 12 at Richard Thompson Stadium in Mission, with kickoff set for 7 p.m.
However, the district hasn’t yet found a place for Mission Veterans’ home game against Laredo Nixon, tentatively scheduled for Friday, Oct. 13.
“We’ll be gauging their (Daktronics’) work to see where we’ll be in a couple of weeks — how much they’ll have to do and so forth,” Ibarra said. “We’re going to take it one week at a time.”