NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
BUHLER, Kan. — Buhler USD 313 Superintendent Cindy Couchman said the Crusaders basketball teams will have a literal new home floor before too long.
"We hope it's completed by the end of Christmas vacation," Couchman said. "That would be a great goal. If you've been into our gym last year, or recently, you've noticed at Jim Baker Fieldhouse at Buhler High School, that our gym floor is torn up. We had a water pipe break at the end of the season last year."
They have approval for the insurance claim on the floor.
"We are just now getting to the point where we are ready to replace that floor," Couchman said. "We had subflooring that needed to be redone. We're reworking the concrete in that gym floor and we are actually going to replace the entire floor of Jim Baker Fieldhouse, and that's a process."
That will impact this winter's basketball schedule.
"It's been torn out for quite some time," Couchman said. "We are going to start working on that. We hope to be laying floor in the next week or so. After that, of course, we will be ready to do. We have to let it cure for a little bit. That means rescheduling some things. Our athletic director, Justin Seuser, has been amazing through this process. He has rescheduled all of our December games. They are going to be away, so any home December game is now going to be away."
The hope is for the Crusaders to be back home after winter break for basketball.
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