Thomas W. Bryant Stadium is a

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Lakeland, Florida Lakeland is the most populous city in Polk County, Florida, part of the Tampa Bay Area, located along Interstate 4 east of Tampa. According to the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau release, the city had a population of 112,641. Lakeland is a principal c ...

that is currently home to Lakeland High School athletics and the Lakeland Tropics soccer team of

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. It is named for Thomas W. Bryant, a Lakeland native lawyer, legislator, and donor to the

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. Bryant Stadium is just to the north of

Henley Field Henley Field is a historic site in Lakeland, Florida. Built in 1922, it is located at 1125 North Florida Avenue. Clare Henley, for whom the park was named in 1942, encouraged its construction in an effort to persuade a professional baseball tea ...

. In August 2017,

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purchased Bryant Stadium from the City of Lakeland at a cost of $1.2 million.

External links

Stadium page at LakelandFootball.com

References

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