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CLICK HERE to join our Brick Fundraising Campaign today! 〰️
Welcome to Home Field Advantage
We’re a nonprofit supporting the M. Douglas Crater Field & Stadium now under construction to serve R.J. Reynolds High School and Wiley Magnet Middle School. Before this on-campus, multi-sport facility was approved, neither of these Title I schools had a regulation-size field making athletics and other activities inaccessible to many students, families and fans.
As part of a public-private partnership with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Home Field Advantage is securing the private funds for this important project. We are incredibly grateful for the generosity of more than 400 donors (and counting!) as we work to bring this campaign to a close.
A Field of Dreams is Happening!
This drone footage taken by RJR senior Will Bumgarner in early November 2024 highlights the recently installed Astroturf field and customized field markings. In addition, you get a great view of the completed stadium bleachers, field lights and the Stan Elrod Scoreboard. The construction footprint just beyond the endzone closest to the RJR Auxiliary Gym is the Robert Deaton Field House which is expected to be completed by early 2025. Soon, we will break ground on the Stadium Entrance Building located alongside Northwest Boulevard. This building will include the Zack H. Bacon IV Hall of Champions and the Mary Garber-Stuart Scott Press Box. A great viewing spot of the stadium site is from the RJR Auxiliary Gym.
“The stadium provides, unequivocally, what we call “the thrill of victory” for the student athletes at Reynolds and Wiley. Let’s share in their joy.”
CLICK HERE to view the full story in The Winston-Salem Journal in 1919 announcing plans for Hanes Park and R.J. Reynolds High School which then welcomed its first students in 1923.
