Western Christian High School gets new athletic complex
The Western Christian High School football team will soon have a real home field advantage.
The school's new athletic complex is expected to be completed in time for the school's homecoming game on Friday.
A dedication of the complex, which includes the football field and bleachers, as well as a carnival will be part of Friday's celebration of the school's 90th anniversary.
"This is a big, big deal," said Nick Karavedas, Western Christian High's athletic director.
Since moving to the former Upland Christian Schools campus in 2009, the team has played home games at other public fields, such as Grigsby Field at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, and has practiced at Sierra Vista Park in Upland.
The school's girls and boys soccer teams also will call the complex home when their seasons start.
"We're grateful to the city, but to be able to come out of class and go straight to your own field it just adds another dynamic to it and for our soccer kids, too," Karavedas said.
The complex will be Western's first in its 90-year history. Western rented its previous campus in Covina, so they had little power over its field.
School officials were searching for a new campus for some time before settling on the campus in Upland.
Mike Reed, superintendent for Industry-based Commerce Construction, said work began on Sept.7 on the complex. Reed said he is confident the complex will be completed in time for
Friday's game.
The school's athletic booster club has started the "Lancer Road to Victory" program to help raise $250,000 of the complex's cost.
Through the program, the booster club sold engraved bricks from $175 to $5,000 that will be included in a brick path outside of the complex.
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