{"id":7722,"date":"2024-08-28T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T13:19:14","slug":"liverpool-community-sports-field-eyes-spring-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/08\/28\/liverpool-community-sports-field-eyes-spring-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Community Sports Field eyes spring finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crews are working on the $3-million Liverpool Community Sports Field at Liverpool Regional High School. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

There may be a little short-term pain this fall for some big long-term gain for Liverpool\u2019s high school soccer teams as they wait for a new multimillion-dollar field and track to be completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Crews are working now on building the $3-million-plus Liverpool Community Sports Field at Liverpool Regional High School. It will feature the South Shore\u2019s only all-weather, year-round track and a new artificial turf soccer field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristopher Snarby, president of the Queens County Track Society which is leading the effort, <\/span>said the field likely won\u2019t be finished until November. And depending on the weather, the new rubberized track probably won\u2019t be ready until early spring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re working hard, they have a camper on site and the crew\u2019s actually living in the camper and working pretty long days,” Snarby said Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that the field will be done late October, early November and the track itself, it depends on weather in terms of when they can lay the track. So the track will either be done in November as well or it will have to wait till spring when things are little warmer. So things are coming together fairly well. We kind of had a pipe dream that the soccer field would be ready for this fall, but that\u2019s not going to happen unfortunately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, he said the high school\u2019s boys and girls soccer teams are working with the middle school in Liverpool to use that field for practices. He said they\u2019ll likely have to find another field outside Liverpool for their games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite having to wait a little longer than they\u2019d hoped, Snarby says it\u2019s gratifying to see the project coming together.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There have been so many people pushing for this for so long, it\u2019s nice to finally see the end result coming together. The contractors that are doing the work are doing a great job there. They’re working really hard to move along as fast as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s just really exciting to know that the community is going to have this facility in a few months. And it\u2019ll be great to see people start to use it. I\u2019ve had inquiries already from other areas who are interested in renting the field to have some higher level soccer taking place there. So that’s really positive. It\u2019s just really exciting for sure.”<\/span>
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The track and field project got a $1.8-million funding commitment from the federal government, $1.2 million from the province and $250,000 from the Region of Queens municipality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Snarby said his group will be launching a private fundraising campaign in the next couple of weeks to cover other costs, such as a shot put and discus throwing area.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said doing those separately from the main project is cheaper.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe costs to do it as a whole project were extremely expensive. So we had to pull them out of the project and we\u2019re still going to get them done, but they’re going to be quite a lot more cost-effective.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Snarby said that as long as construction continues to go as planned, everything should be ready for use by March or April next year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re looking forward to the end result.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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There may be a little short-term pain this fall for some big long-term gain for Liverpool\u2019s high school soccer teams as they wait for a new multimillion-dollar field and track to be completed. Crews are working now on building the $3-million-plus Liverpool Community Sports Field at Liverpool Regional High School. It will feature the South […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2578,1929,1444,1813,188,2576,118,1046,1928,2577,1626,1808],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-all-weather-track","tag-artificial-turf","tag-artificial-turf-field","tag-athletics","tag-kristopher-snarby","tag-liverpool-community-sports-field","tag-liverpool-regional-high-school","tag-queens-county-track-society","tag-rubberized-track","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}