Everett Memorial Stadium is an outdoor sports complex in Everett, Washington , which includes a stadium for football and a ballpark for baseball . Opened in 1947, it has been the home field of the Everett AquaSox , a Minor League Baseball team in the Northwest League , and its predecessor, the Everett Giants, since 1984. In 2019, the ballpark became known as Funko Field . The football stadium has been home to the Everett Reign , a women's football team, since 2013. The complex is owned by the Everett School District , whose schools use both stadiums for their athletic programs. It is also home to the Puget Sound Festival of Bands, an annual marching band competition. The facility was remodeled in 1998 to have a seating capacity of 3,682 people for baseball and 12,000 for football.
13-830: The stadium sits on land donated by the Everett Lodge of Elks 479 to the Everett School District in 1947, dedicated in memory of Everett citizens who died during military service in World War II . On July 9, 1967, a Canadian Football League preseason game between the BC Lions and Edmonton Eskimos was played at Memorial Stadium. It started 45 minutes late due to issues with Edmonton's aircraft prior to their arrival at Paine Field . The Lions won 7–2, with no touchdowns scored by either team, in front of 6,248 spectators. The first professional team to play at
26-610: A Durham School Services school bus crashed into a home in Meriden, Connecticut. There were eleven students on the bus at the time of the crash, no students were injured. The driver of the bus suffered injuries and was transported to Hartford Hospital. A Durham school services school bus was carrying the East Haven High School girls volleyball team, when anti freeze spilled in the bus causing it to fill with smoke. Several students were injured and two were transported to
39-594: A larger concession area and new lighting. The renovation was funded by a motel-hotel tax approved by the Washington State Legislature in 1994. The Seattle University Redhawks baseball team played at Memorial Stadium in 2012 and 2013. On October 17, 2017, citing the poor condition of the field's natural grass surface when the stadium was used by the Everett High School and Everett Community College baseball teams, which rendered
52-552: A school bus operated by Durham was involved in an accident which left six students dead in Chattanooga, Tennessee . The driver, Johnthony K. Walker was charged with five counts of vehicular homicide. The investigation revealed that though the driver was not intoxicated, he was speeding and had strayed from the assigned route. Walker had been involved in an accident two months prior, and had his drivers license suspended in 2014 for failure to show proof of insurance. In January 2018
65-675: A small fleet for its special education programs. Here is a list of the schools in the Everett School District. Durham School Services Durham School Services is a school bus operator providing contracted student transportation throughout the United States, based in Lisle, Illinois , and currently operating in 32 states. Founded in 1917 with three buses in the San Gabriel Valley , it became
78-520: A subsidiary of Mobico Group , formerly National Express Group, in 1999. In August of 2024, Mobico announced it formally began the process of selling its North American school bus division, including Durham School Services. North American sister companies are Stock Transportation in Canada and Petermann Bus in Ohio . As of September 2017, it operated 15,500 buses in 32 states. On November 21, 2016,
91-496: Is the main public school district for the city of Everett, Washington . In addition to covering most of Everett, the district also serves the city of Mill Creek along with some unincorporated areas of Snohomish County . The district has twenty-seven schools and had an enrollment of 20,948 students during the 2019–20 school year. The current superintendent is Dr. Ian B. Saltzman. The school district contracts with Durham School Services for most school bus operations; it operates
104-490: The Bellingham Mariners, hit his first professional home run over the left field wall, with the ball landing in the street approximately 387 feet (118 m) from home plate . A plaque on the sidewalk marks the site just outside the left field wall. The baseball stadium underwent extensive renovations in 1998, at a cost of $ 5 million. The upgrade increased capacity by 1,400 seats to the present 3,682 and added
117-655: The Everett School Board approved a $ 1.1 million, eight-year sponsorship agreement with local toymaker Funko to brand the baseball field as Funko Field at Everett Memorial Stadium. The stadium's parking lot was home to a temporary COVID-19 testing center during the COVID-19 pandemic . The testing center, operated by the Snohomish Health District , opened on March 23 and closed on April 16 after processing 2,500 people. The track stadium
130-652: The field near-unusable for games played by both schools, the natural grass field was switched to an artificial surface. Work began on October 31, 2017, and was completed in April 2018. At the time of the switch, it was one of three ballparks in the Northwest League to have an artificial turf field. The Eugene Emeralds ' PK Park and the Hillsboro Hops ' Ron Tonkin Field were the others. On March 19, 2019,
143-466: The hospital. On October 16, 2018, a Durham School bus was on its way to Valley Ranch Elementary in Irving Texas shortly before 7 a.m. when the driver noticed smoke coming from the engine, according to Coppell ISD spokeswoman Amanda Simpson. The driver, "followed protocol" and pulled over, evacuating two students and a monitor on board. Irving Fire Department responded to the scene, and for getting
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#1732786563841156-682: The stadium was the Everett Giants , playing in the Northwest League of Class A baseball. The first Giants game held at the stadium was played against the Bellingham Mariners in front of a crowd of 3,527 on June 19, 1984. As the stadium itself dates to 1947, it is one of the oldest active ballparks in Minor League Baseball . On June 17, 1987, with 3,122 fans watching, Ken Griffey Jr. , playing for
169-694: Was renovated in 2022 and reopened with a new surface and track. The county and city government approved the development of a feasibility study that would investigate whether a new multipurpose stadium could be built in Everett to replace Funko Field. The study was spurred by updated Minor League Baseball standards and the AquaSox moving to High-A with more games. 47°58′01″N 122°12′11″W / 47.967°N 122.203°W / 47.967; -122.203 Everett School District Everett Public Schools , officially Everett School District No. 2 ,
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