Facilities being repaired

Athletics look to host more games

BY OLIVIA ESPINOZA Reporter

After a season where athletic facilities, couldn’t have home games, work is underway to make sure next year is different.

Athletic Director Susan Armenta said they haven't had great fields in the past years.

“I think the issue was we weren’t able to play at the fields the last couple of seasons. We wanted to make sure we were compliant with our conference, to make sure we had safe facilities for our studentathletes,” Armenta said.

Another factor for the reparations besides the lack of home games was a safety issue that was inspected by members of the Western State Conference Committee.

Armenta said that the committee thought there were many issues that should be dealt with in the near future.

Now, this season's athletes are happy to see that Pierce has put money into repairing the fields. A firstyear football player at Pierce, Chris Miranda, was excited to hear about the repairs. “Hell yeah, we want them to be better. We want them updated. It’s great they are putting money into that,” Miranda said. Coaches are also very excited about these repairs. Head Coach Charles White said the morale of players and coaches is high, and he expressed gratitude for the repairs. oespinoza.roundupnews@gmail.com

“We’d like to give big thanks to our AD, Dean of Athletics, VP, and our current president for supporting this push for excellent,” White said. In addition to the women’s softball, baseball field, north gym, south gym, the tennis courts, stadium, and pool will be added to the reparations. The tennis courts and the deck area of the pool are in the works of being resurfaced.

“We are actually just working with a contractor to get the maintenance done [for the stadium]. Every few months we will get the turf lifted so it's not as compact. We are hoping to get new facilities to be able to do the laundry for the football team, for their uniforms,” Armenta said.