The High Country Grizzlies inaugural season in the National Arena League begins in about six weeks, and its first home game in the Holmes Convocation Center takes place on March 25.
Recently, Grizzlies management unveiled the indoor turf field in the coliseum, which will be able to accommodate a sellout crowd of about 6,100 people. The Mountaineers hardwood basketball court must be disassembled and assembled before and after each game.
Thompson said that about three dozen players will arrive in Boone in a few weeks. After physicals are conducted, a two-week training camp begins, running into the middle of March, several days before a trimmed-down roster of 21 takes on the Georgia Firebirds in Albany, Ga.