Winfield Football Program Approved By School Board

Winfield, TN (2011-11-11) For the first time in school history, the Winfield Bobcats will field a football team.

Winfield Elementary School is joining all other middle schools in the county with a pigskin program. Winfield, the lone county-operated school without a football program, has been given approval and funding by the Scott County Board of Education to field a football team in Fall of 2012. On a 6-0 vote Thursday night, with member Brian Strunk absent, the Board voted to approve a request from Winfield Principal Sharon Stanley to field a football team next year. At the Board’s last work session, Stanley shared her vision for the pigskin program at Winfield, claiming the upstart program would cost roughly $15,000. Stanley, along with Director of Schools Bill Hall, both expressed their belief the school would have enough players to field a team. In recent years, Winfield students interested in playing football were allowed to join the Burchfield Rams. Winfield has always fielded a basketball team and, in recent years, participated in soccer and cross country.

In other business, the Board

· Approved its continued relationship with the Scott County Imagination Library, agreeing to fund one month of the program at $2,000;

· Approved several amendments to its policies, as recommended by the Tennessee Schools Boards Association (TSBA);

· Approved a three-year, $2,500 contract with the TSBA for updating its policy manual and online services; and,

· Designated the cafeteria serving line recently removed from Scott High School surplus equipment, allowing the district to sell it at a public sale.