capital campaign

[61 Spider]

See where the capital campaign is now at $159 million. It will be interesting to see how much the spider club raised for the fiscal year ending in 2014. Hope a good portion of the campaign funds go towards athletics and improved facilities such as the baseball field.

 

[Eight Legger]

Anyone know what our long-term plan is for baseball? I almost feel like we need to bulldoze the field and re-situate it during an offseason in order to improve it to any significant degree. If we were starting with a flat, blank slate there, I bet we could put together a pretty nice complex with more permanent seating and minor amenities. As it is, I feel like we are more or less stuck with what we have and can only improve it so much (i.e. - not enough).

 

[SFspidur]

One of the parents posted that we're getting some offseason improvements, but I don't remember the details.

 

[One putt]

The location of the baseball field is not that bad. The facility needs better stands, press area, bathrooms and most important, lights.

 

[Eight Legger]

My point is just that there's really no room to expand the seating behind home plate, because there's a giant cliff there. We are falling way behind in terms of our baseball complex when compared to a lot of "lesser" schools, even, and I'm just not sure how we can really expand things much with the field aligned as it is currently.

 

[MolivaManiac]

The existing location could have more seats. Just dig into the hill and lay a foundation. I cant imagine a huge investment would be needed to make a really nice facility with the basic amenities that One Putt describes.

 

[Eight Legger]

I played around with shifting the location of home plate to roughly where right field is now and angling the field toward college road/Westhampton Lake, and it seems to fit pretty well within the current footprint and would give room to build some nice seating without affecting X-lot. A few things might need to be tweaked, but it's just a thought.

This way, you also have easier access for fans from X-lot.



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This post was edited on 7/14 6:43 PM by Eight Legger

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