Baseball at Morrisonville High School is returning to town this coming season.  The school will continue its co-op for the sport with Lincolnwoods, but the move makes baseball Morrisonville’s only outdoor team sport played within the town limits.  For a town with a three-figure population, athletics administrators hope the change will lead to higher turnout from the community at games. 

Lela Ferrill is the athletic director at Morrisonville.  She looks forward to the geographical return of baseball in large part to her connections to the sport.

She also looks forward to the participants feeling a sense of ownership and local identity in the experience of playing baseball at home.

Ferrill credits the community for showing up to sporting events, whether filling the gym to near-capacity or traveling to other schools within their co-ops. 

With fewer facilities of their own, holding the job of athletic director carries the additional task of coordinating logistics with other schools, especially for last-minute changes. 

Most of the sports teams’ coaches are not otherwise affiliated with the school but are nonetheless present in the athletes' lives even off the field. 

More information on Morrisonville Community Unit School District #1 is available at www.mohawks.net. 

Lela Ferrill appeared as a guest on the WTIM Morning Show as part of the WTIM High School Road Tour’s visit to Morrisonville.