Trojan Arena—Fountain-Fort Carson High School's 4,800-seat venue—sits on the edge of the largest mountain range in North America. Thus, when designing the new venue—which is powered by a L-Acoustics A Series sound system—the school went big, larger than collegiate arenas at nearby Colorado College, CSU Pueblo, and Northern Colorado University. The arena can accommodate four simultaneous full-court basketball games and is encircled by a two-lane indoor running track on the upper level, while the floor and bowl are also regularly used for volleyball, wrestling matches, assemblies, graduations, and other events.
“It’s an amazing facility, even more so when you realize that this is a high school arena, not a college or professional venue,” said Ron Howard, principal consultant of Colorado Springs-based Eleven Tech Group, which did the arena’s AV design and AV consulting. He said the consultancy worked closely with both the architect, CRP Architects, also in Colorado Springs, and Brown Note Productions, the Thornton-based AV systems integrator, to achieve highly intelligible and impactful sound as well as flexible coverage that would assure great audio for seating both in the stands and on the floor.
