Why does the Madison Community need a New Gymnasium?
Since the current high school was built in 1965 without spectator seating in the gymnasium, MHS has not had a facility to call “home.” Competition events were housed at the downtown auditorium and then the DSU Fieldhouse until recently. High school teams now compete in the middle school gymnasium, which was built on a scale to house middle school events. It has proven to have inadequate seating, both in the size of seating and number of seats, to host most high school athletic events. The number of sports teams competing in the same season also causes scheduling problems for both competition and practice times. See the practice schedule from two weeks in December 2006.
