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Anonymous wrote:I just saw Hayfield's gym and WTF???How is there this much of a difference in facilities between Hayfield and every other gym I've seen in the county?

What’s wrong with it?

The suggestion was that it’s nicer than most FCPS gyms.

Oh, thanks. An inference could have been made either way based on the lost.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw Hayfield's gym and WTF???How is there this much of a difference in facilities between Hayfield and every other gym I've seen in the county?

What’s wrong with it?

The suggestion was that it’s nicer than most FCPS gyms.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw Hayfield's gym and WTF???How is there this much of a difference in facilities between Hayfield and every other gym I've seen in the county?

What’s wrong with it?

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church City high school is beautiful, so
Jealous when we had a game there

It’s actually in Fairfax County. The architecture firm did a good job.

Nope, FCC bought the land from them in a trade for the water utility.

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Anonymous wrote:Robinson has the best gym.

The FCPS secondary schools have humongous gyms. They are all about 50 years old though. For the larger of the smaller-sized, new generation of gyms, Arlington has some nice ones: Wakefield, W-L.

People are always blown away by the Wakefield gym.

The W-L gym is awful. It is dark and looks like a middle school gym. It gives W-L a huge home advantage because the weird dimensions and poor lighting tend to throw other teams off.

W-L’s gym is large and actually nice. It looks nothing like a middle school gym. It is huge and larger than all the other Liberty District high schools gyms.

But when Arlington put new LED fixtures in, that actually made the gym darker.

It’s not nice at all for HS events. Maybe it’s good for subdividing over 700 freshmen for PE.

I still doubt you’d want to trade the large W-L gym for the small gyms at McLean or Langley.

Both of those gyms are nicer, more traditional gyms. Langley’s was recently renovated; McLean’s is somewhat larger than Langley’s in terms of seating. And the lighting is much better.

I've mostly been to daytime events at the W-L gym and the natural lighting is nice. I wish more gyms had windows. But the new LED lights are poorly positioned and create dark shadows along the walls. I think the gyms in most FCPS schools are way too small, but that's my opinion; they are also smaller than what current ed specs call for.

The 7-12 grade FCPS secondary schools have massive gyms, which are perfect for regional playoff games, but they lack the intimacy of the old, undersized small FCPS gyms. In terms of both capacity and design, Robinson is the gold standard for gyms in Northern Va.

Yorktown strangely has a very poorly designed gym, despite it only being about a decade old. In addition to the poor design, the sound system and HVAC also create uncomfortable acoustics. I have yet to find anyone that likes the Yorktown gym.

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Anonymous wrote:Falls Church City high school is beautiful, so
Jealous when we had a game there

It’s actually in Fairfax County. The architecture firm did a good job.

No, it’s not. Meridian HS is in Falls Church City. The land was transferred to FCC years ago as part of a deal for FCC to sell its water authority.