Friday Night Lights

Bearcat community:

Football season is an exciting time that brings together our entire Aledo community to watch our football team and trainers, Bearcat Regiment, colorguard, AHS cheerleaders, Bearcats Dance Team, Spirit of Aledo, and many other students representing our district. We love that this is a time of pride for our community with our games often selling out due to the incredible amount of support our community shows our students!

Today, we wanted to share expectations as well as information about ticket sales timelines for our varsity home football games this season.

You’ll be hearing more about this in the coming weeks and months: Aledo ISD is proud to be joining the Texas High School Coaches Association, the Texas High School Athletic Directors Association, 2Words Character Development and school districts from across the state to be a part of The Texas Way program. This program is, first and foremost, working to improve the level of sportsmanship at UIL sporting events based on three pillars of The Texas Way:

1. Respect for Others: Respect, The Texas Way, is given generously.

2. Control of Self: Self Control, The Texas Way, is to handle adversity with class, and keep your anger in check.

3. Spirit of Competition: Competition, The Texas Way, is about more than a scoreboard.

Learn more at playthetexasway.com.

What you read below in this email is about our expectations as Bearcats on how we do things The Texas Way. We want you all to have a safe and enjoyable experience and for all of our Bearcat fans to help us promote good sportsmanship among our players and fans!

Finally, if you can’t make it to the game, Aledo varsity home games will be streamed live through Texan Live this year. You can find streaming information at www.texanlive.com.

Thank you for being safe, for following all stadium rules, and for being SPIRITED! We can’t wait to see you all on Friday nights this season!

GO BEARCATS!

Susan

Dr. Susan Bohn, Aledo ISD Superintendent

As a reminder, Aledo ISD is now CASHLESS for all athletic events! This means that ticket sales are online only and concession sales will all be cashless, taking credit cards only!

We will roll out Tap to Pay (Apple Pay) at concessions later this season.

We will continue to follow a clear bag policy at Tim Buchanan Stadium. The following items are permitted:

• Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl or PVC and not exceeding 12” x 6” x 12”

• One-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziploc bag or similar)

• Small clutch bag that is approximately the size of a hand (4.5”X6.5”) with or without a handle or strap

• Diaper bags are allowed as long as they are accompanied by an infant/small child

• Simple seat cushions without pockets, zippers, compartments or covers

• Binoculars, phones or cameras can be carried into the stadium as long as they are not in an unapproved bag.

• Exceptions will be made for medically necessary items

The following items are prohibited:

• Purses larger than a clutch bag, coolers, backpacks, fanny packs - this includes crossbody/belt bags that are larger than 4.5”X6.5”, cinch bags, computer bags, camera bags or any bag larger than the permissible size. Please note that the bag that you got in with last year may be prohibited now.

• Any bag, even if it is approved, is subject to search.
  

Please also follow these stadium rules:

• No outside food or drink allowed. This includes water, soda or sports drink bottles or cans; Yeti/Stanley or similar cups or fast food drink cups; or paper or plastic coffee cups. If you come to the gates with any of these items, you will be required to return them to your car or throw them away.

• No in and out privileges; re-entry requires purchase of a new ticket.

• Middle school students who are not sitting with their parents must sit in the east end zone bleachers.

• Elementary students must be accompanied by their parent(s) and sit with their parents. We will contact parents to pick up students in 5th grade and below who attempt to enter without their parent(s).

• Children will not be permitted to congregate, run, throw objects, tackle each other or rough house under the stands or in the common areas directly to the east and west of the stands or in the concourse.

• The following items are not allowed in Tim Buchanan Stadium: airhorns, bullhorns, whistles, other other artificial noisemakers, footballs, soccer balls or other sports equipment, boom boxes/portable speakers, bubble guns, laser pointers, baby powder, streamers, confetti, silly string or similar items. No animals, skateboards, frisbees or rollerblades allowed in the stadium. Any prohibited item will be confiscated.
  

• Absolutely no alcohol, drugs, smoking, vaping, tobacco, or firearms on school property at any time, including before, during and after football games in the stadium and parking lots. These things are prohibited by law at all times for anyone, no matter their age, on school property.

We will once again prioritize ticket sales for Aledo High School-Daniel Ninth Grade campus students as well as parents of participants before general ticket sales begin for varsity home games. The following is the varsity home football game ticket timeline:

• AHS-DNG students in grades 9-12: May purchase 1 ticket per non-participating student from 8 a.m. on Monday through noon on Thursday the week of a home game. Reminder: student athletics passes are not valid at varsity home football games.

• Parents of students participating in home varsity football games: May purchase up to 4 tickets from 8 a.m. on Monday through noon on Tuesday the week of a home game.

• General Admission Public Ticket Sales: Begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday the week of a home game until sold out. More General Admission tickets may become available beginning at 1 p.m. on Thursday the day before the home game. Reminder: Family athletic passes are not valid for varsity home football games.

As a friendly reminder, seats in Tim Buchanan Stadium with a back on them (whether they are orange and black or not) are reserved seats. If your ticket has a section, row and seat number on it, then you have a ticket for one of these reserved seats. Otherwise, all other tickets are general admission tickets and patrons should sit in general admission seating on rows that do not have backs. We ask that if you have reserved tickets and can’t make it to the game, please consider sharing them with or selling them to other Bearcat fans!

As always, we will have Aledo ISD police officers directing traffic, and you should expect delays and traffic on Friday night home games. Gates will open an hour before kickoff for each home game. Parking lots are open at 4:30 p.m., and the road directly in front of Tim Buchanan Stadium will be blocked off for pedestrians only beginning an hour before kickoff.

Please note on the map below where parking passes (A, B, C, VIP) are required and where free, general parking is located. Only team, band and spirit buses as well as those with VIP parking passes will be permitted to enter the drive between the Aledo ISD Administration Building and the Aledo Learning Center.