Ground broken for new soccer locker rooms
December 1, 2009
Filed under Soccer, Sports, Top Stories
Walking all the way to the visitors side of the football stadium just to use the bathroom got tiring and frustrating for Lufkin Panther soccer fans. But beginning this season, fans and players at Jase Majers will have new bathrooms to use, easily accessible from the field, along with a locker room and new concession stand.
In the past years, before games the players would have to meet and prepare for the games inside the school in a classroom, which is quite the distance from the field.
“It was very inconvenient having to get ready for our games in a classroom inside the school, and then have to walk all the way over to the fields,” said Christa Robinson, captain for the girls soccer team. “Also we had to make sure we used the bathroom before the game, because if you had to go during half time you wouldn’t have time to run over to the football stadium and come back before the game started again.”
The players are all very excited for the building of the locker rooms, especially the seniors.
“I’m really excited about getting the facilities and locker rooms,” Francisco Acevedo, captain of the boys team said. “It’s more exciting for the seniors this year because we are going to be the first ones to use them and it’s our last year here.”
The players aren’t the only ones eager to have the locker rooms. The coaches are also anticipating the arrival of the new facilities.
“I feel like our players deserve it,” Lufkin girl’s head coach Juan Encarnacion said. “Every other sport has their own buildings with restrooms and concessions. We are one of the few, if not the only sport that didn’t have something like that. This is definitely something that is well deserved for our players.”
The locker rooms, new concession stand and restrooms are said to be finished within sixty days of it being built. If so, that puts them ready to be used around the end of January, which is before district games start.
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