Story on the Swenson Athletic Football field
Steven M Miller, Jr
Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: Sports
While the Swenson football field will not get a makeover anytime soon, a plan is in the works for a brand new $9.5 to $10 million Swenson Field Athletic Complex. The field will come complete with a new synthetic football turf, bleachers, all-weather track, press-box, locker rooms and offices for the football team and coaches.
The construction will begin as soon as the approval comes for the new Marshall Conant science building from the state legislature and its plan has been stamped by the Board of Trustees.
"Right now the college has done a study for building a field for the football team, locker rooms for the home and visiting teams on an artificial surface, and a nine-lane track," said Keith Macdonald, Director of Facilities. "If funds are available a second artificial (surface) will be placed the field closest to Tinsley Drive."
Macdonald said that an all-encompassing study was devised and outlined find out the best plan for the future of the college and the direction that they want to go with the project. The study was done by the Facilities, Management and Planning, and Athletics in association with Geller Sport Inc. of Boston.
"The study was done to find out the cost effectiveness, so that we could pair it down with a proposed budget with the cost analysis," said Macdonald. "With this study you can color generate plans, develop a construction schedule (when funding becomes available) with other agencies that need to be involved, then the trustees can approve it and construction can begin.
The new football field will come with an artificial surface complete with rubber-sand as the surface. The field will become an expandable soccer and lacrosse field with the lines and corners painted out. Lines drawn for use of the football team will become permanent.
A new set of bleachers will be built from one 20-yard line to the other 20-yard line with a press box right behind them. Space will be created on the other end of the field where the moveable bleachers can be placed and new space can be built for expandable seating (on the visitors side) when the funding becomes available.
The construction will begin as soon as the approval comes for the new Marshall Conant science building from the state legislature and its plan has been stamped by the Board of Trustees.
"Right now the college has done a study for building a field for the football team, locker rooms for the home and visiting teams on an artificial surface, and a nine-lane track," said Keith Macdonald, Director of Facilities. "If funds are available a second artificial (surface) will be placed the field closest to Tinsley Drive."
Macdonald said that an all-encompassing study was devised and outlined find out the best plan for the future of the college and the direction that they want to go with the project. The study was done by the Facilities, Management and Planning, and Athletics in association with Geller Sport Inc. of Boston.
"The study was done to find out the cost effectiveness, so that we could pair it down with a proposed budget with the cost analysis," said Macdonald. "With this study you can color generate plans, develop a construction schedule (when funding becomes available) with other agencies that need to be involved, then the trustees can approve it and construction can begin.
The new football field will come with an artificial surface complete with rubber-sand as the surface. The field will become an expandable soccer and lacrosse field with the lines and corners painted out. Lines drawn for use of the football team will become permanent.
A new set of bleachers will be built from one 20-yard line to the other 20-yard line with a press box right behind them. Space will be created on the other end of the field where the moveable bleachers can be placed and new space can be built for expandable seating (on the visitors side) when the funding becomes available.
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