High School Teams As Eager As Cowboys For Star To Open
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FRISCO (CBS11) - It was moving day for Dallas Cowboys employees. Workers have been busy packing up Valley Ranch as they prepare to settle into their new digs in Collin County.
Outside The Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, you can see the work out very much in progress.
The team's move brings us another step closer to a new era in sports, and as much as this means for the Cowboys, it may mean even more for the local high school football community.
There's still a lot of work left to do, but much of the Cowboys new world headquarters is coming together fast, just in time for employees to start calling it home.
For Wakeland High School head football coach Marty Secord, his team still has a little more than a month before they take the field in one of four games that make up the high school season opener.
"It's a great time to be coaching in Frisco and for a kid to be playing in Frisco, and you think about it, our teams here in 2016 are going to be the first teams in the history of that stadium to ever play in it, and so that in itself is exciting because you are a part of history," Coach Secord said.
A partnership between the Cowboys and Frisco ISD allows student athletes to play games on the Cowboys' practice field. Secord's team has to wait until next month before it's allowed to practice for the big game. In the meantime he's reminding them that no matter how big the arena, the field is the same size, and the game is the same. But it's not hard even for him to get excited about game day.
"It's a tremendous opportunity to showcase not only the Cowboys but our district and to really take it to a different level, and I think that's what you'll see happen, and I think that relationship will grow and get better each and every year," Secord said.
Those opening four games August 27 are split into two separate sessions.
The evening session is already sold out, but as of Thursday evening there were still about 500 tickets left for the morning and afternoon games.
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