Athletics

Fairfield Athletics

By Brad Rose

Fairfield Community School District has 18 different athletic programs to offer its students. In the fall, both middle school and high school football, cross country; volleyball, and high school girls swimming are offered. During 2007-2008, the FHS football team qualified for and competed in the Iowa High School Class 3A State Playoffs. Girls Volleyball won the Southeast Conference, boys and girls cross country were both conference runner ups.

Winter Athletics
Winter season is less hectic in the athletic world at FHS, but the excitement is still there. Fairfield offers middle school and high school boys and girls basketball, wrestling. Although there is not a boys swimming team, Fairfield Community School District has a cooperative sharing agreement with Ottumwa High School. The middle school basketball teams split the winter season. There is a 7^th grade boys basketball team, 7^th grade girls basketball team, 8^th grade boys basketball team, and 8^th grade girls basketball team. The 7^th grade boys/8^th grade girls compete during the first half of the season, and the 8^th grade boys/7^th grade girls compete the second half of the season. Middle school wrestling consists of both 7^th and 8^th grade jointly during the entire winter season.

High school basketball and wrestling are sure to provide you with plenty of evenings of excitement. The boys basketball team competed in the first round of the 2008 Iowa High School Boys State Playoffs in Des Moines. Following many scheduled and rescheduled wrestling meets, the boys wrestling team left many of their opponents wondering what hit them. Two senior wrestlers competed in the 2008 IHSAA State Wrestling Tournament in February at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Spring Athletics
Following the long, bitterly cold winter season, comes the spring sports. Students in Fairfield have many opportunities to participate in athletics in the months of March, April, May and June. There are middle school boys and girls track teams, high school boys and girls track teams, boys and girls high school tennis, boys and girls soccer, and boys and girls high school golf. Fairfield tennis was the home of the 2007 IHSAA State Boys Individual Tennis Champion and the 2007 IGHSAU State Girls Individual Tennis Runner-up. Those two individuals teamed up and brought home the Coed Dual Team 1^st Place Trophy. In 2007, Fairfield Boys Golf was the State Runner-up.

Summer Athletics
In May the summer sports begin with Softball and Baseball starting practice the first two weeks. Our Softball program has a long tradition of SCC titles and Coach Bob Bradfield is 24th all time in wins for the state of Iowa. Josh Allison and the Trojan Baseball squad return some key players and look to contend for the SCC title this summer.