Clear Creek ISD Challenger Columbia Stadium, the District’s second stadium complex, was built to accommodate for the continued fast growth of the Bay Area region and support the many athletic and fine arts activities of CCISD’s five comprehensive high schools. Challenger Columbia Stadium was funded by the Bond 2013 Program, which was approved by 70% of voters in May 2013. The Bond 2013 Program was conceived by 30 community members who served on the Citizens Facility Advisory Committee in 2012 and was approved by the Board of Trustees in February 2013. The resulting $367 million Bond package, submitted to and approved by voters, addressed CCISD facilities, instructional technology, and co-curricular and extracurricular program needs of a fast growth district.
The losses of the space shuttle crews of Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 dramatically impacted the Clear Creek ISD community. The crew members of 51-L and STS-107 were not only sons and daughters, fathers, mothers and friends - they were heroes and adventurers who embodied a spirit of curiosity and exploration.
The Clear Creek Independent School District is home to a community unified by that spirit of exploration, so when it was time to determine the name of the District's second stadium, on February 24, 2014, the Board of Trustees voted in favor of the community's recommendation for Clear Creek ISD Challenger Columbia Stadium to forever honor the space shuttle program legacy and the astronauts who perished aboard both flights.
Clear Creek ISD is proud to celebrate the lives of 14 fallen heroes through the construction of this public complex and community meeting place. The students of today and tomorrow will know their story and continue to be inspired by their legacy.
Space Shuttle Challenger, 51-L
January 28, 1986
Francis R. Scobee, Commander
Ellison S. Onizuka, Mission Specialist 1
Judith A. Resnik, Mission Specialist 2
Ronald E. McNair, Mission Specialist 3
Gregory B. Jarvis, Payload Specialist 1
S. Christa McAuliffe, Payload Specialist 2
Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-107
February 1, 2003
Rick D. Husband, Commander
David M. Brown, Mission Specialist 1
Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist 2
Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialist 3
Laurel B. Clark, Mission Specialist 4
Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist 1
