Donation boosts City funds to build Buck Family Sports Complex; Groundbreaking 5/7/25 Share

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The City of Mar­i­on has received a gen­er­ous dona­tion from Mar­i­on High School alum Julie Buck Moore­head towards the cre­ation of a sports com­plex in Mat­ter Park in her grand­par­ents’ hon­or. The Buck Fam­i­ly Sports Com­plex will house bas­ket­ball courts for the first time in Mat­ter Park, as well as ten­nis courts, and will enable the game of soc­cer ten­nis for the first time, all with­in the Complex. 

The Buck Fam­i­ly Sports Com­plex will cre­ate a chain reac­tion by increas­ing the num­ber of pick­le­ball courts by mov­ing the ten­nis courts to the Com­plex. Addi­tion­al­ly, Mar­i­on High School is work­ing with com­mu­ni­ty ten­nis play­ers to cre­ate new oppor­tu­ni­ties at the high school and through the Ken Hill annu­al ​“Hot­line” ten­nis tour­na­ment. Since the new com­plex will replace the cur­rent soft­ball dia­mond, the City is work­ing on adding soft­ball to Bal­lard Field in the future.

A video cre­at­ed by the City of Mar­i­on in part­ner­ship with Media Out­fit­ters, LLC, explains more, and is found through the link below.

An offi­cial ground­break­ing for the Buck Fam­i­ly Sports Com­plex will be tak­ing place on Wednes­day, May 7^th, 2025 at 11am at the for­mer soft­ball dia­mond in Mat­ter Park (1 Mat­ter Park Cir­cle). It should be open in the fall of this year.

A sim­ple ren­der­ing is includ­ed of the new com­plex layout: