LOCKER RENOVATIONS COMPLETE

During the summer of 2021, Tatnall initiated and completed a long-anticipated $650,000 renovation to the Boys’ and Girls’ Locker Room spaces. Over the decades, there have been many attempts to update these popular spaces and redesign the interior to better accommodate the needs of Tatnall athletes. Nearly all of these previous plans were discarded due to challenges with fundraising, budgeting, construction logistics, infrastructure hurdles, or timing, so we are ecstatic to announce that the new locker rooms have far exceeded our expectations in addition to being completed on-time and under budget!

Tatnall’s own Director of Operations, Angelo Fontanazza, served as Project Manager for the renovation, and we cannot thank Angelo and his team enough for expediting this quality work. Angelo focused the redesign on one key element — to build a spacious new hallway through the old Boys’ Locker Room that would not only improve the access points to both the Boys’ and Girls’ spaces but would also create a much needed corridor to connect the History Hallway of Beekley with the Middle School stairwell. This hallway increases traffic options through Beekley and better connects the Upper and Middle School spaces on the first floor. The hallway also boasts seating spaces, water fountains, and walls adorned with Tatnall logos and images of our athletes.

In the Boys’ Locker Room, we reclaimed the unused shower room and coaches’ room and transformed them into sportsspecific spaces for Varsity and JV that will change ownership each season. We also cleaned up the HVAC and installed new drywall and ceiling panels throughout. We tore out all the old metal lockers and replaced them with brand new black wire lockers with built in seats, storage areas, and ventilation. All bathroom appliances were updated accordingly, and a new, smaller shower room with individual showers was constructed out of the old coaches’ shower room.

In the Girls’ Locker Room, we added key-card entry doors to improve traffic flow and removed all the old metal lockers from the space. We updated the bathroom spaces and reclaimed an old shower room for equipment and storage. We created specific spaces for MS and US athletes, and the same black wire lockers with seats and storage were added throughout. We also updated the windows and walls facing the courtyard between the Locker Room and Art Rooms in Beekley.

On behalf of Tatnall Athletics and Tatnall athletes for generations to come, we want to thank the generous donors who made this Locker Room renovation possible! We encourage you to come and see it the next time you are on campus.