The Kentucky High School Athletic Association announced today that they plan to move both the high school football championships and the Girls Sweet 16 basketball tournament to Lexington in coming years.
For the first time since 1976, the Kentucky state champions in every division - Class A to Class 6A - will be crowned in Lexington. The move to Kroger field comes after the games have been played at Western Kentucky University since 2009. The decision was made after two consecutive years of rescheduling games around the Conference USA title game.
“Football is so key to us from a revenue standpoint,” KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett said.