Friday, June 29, 2012
Brookfield Central High School should have a new state-of-the-art baseball field in time for play next spring, giving them their first home field on campus versus playing home games at Brookfield East or McCoy Field.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
This time next year, baseball should be in full swing on a new state-of-the-art stadium, giving the Lancers baseball their first home field on campus. Leaders of Central 4Ward, a community fundraising group, held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday on the grass field between Brookfield Central High School and the football/track stadium. "When I came here 10 years ago, it was always a dream of mine to build our own field," Head Boys Baseball Coach Jeff Bigler said. "Now here it is, a reality." The athletes — who compete next week in the GMC tournament — will be able to play home games in their backyard rather than at cross-rival Brookfield East or McCoy Field. "I know our student athletes will take great pride in walking out the school …
Friday, June 22, 2012
Central 4Ward has raised $266,655 to get a state-of-the-art baseball stadium built at Brookfield Central High School in time for the spring 2013 baseball season. The public is invited to a groundbreaking Thursday.
With a boost by a major gift from an anonymous donor, Brookfield Central will break ground Thursday on a new state-of-the-art baseball stadium that will be ready for use next spring. A public groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the baseball stadium site just south of the football / track stadium behind Brookfield Central, 16900 W. Gebhardt Rd. In just a few months, Central 4Ward — a new volunteer fundraising group of parents and other backers — has raised $266,655 and deposited it in Elmbrook School District accounts. The School Board voted 6-1 in March to fund one-third of the baseball stadium project, if Central 4Ward raised the other two-thirds before any construction began. It was a major victory for Central, …
Saturday, March 31, 2012
After years of Central High football stadium debt stymieing baseball and tennis upgrades, the Elmbrook School Board has agreed to help fund new athletic facilities — but only after all private donations are raised.
For years, whenever Brookfield Central High School boosters sought funding for improvements — whether it be for athletics or fine arts — they got the same firm answer: Not until the BC(2) stadium debt is paid. That all changed this week when the Elmbrook School Board voted 6-1 to help fund construction of a new baseball stadium at Central, with private donations paying for two-thirds of the estimated $500,000 stadium and the district paying the rest. A new parent group, Central 4Ward, will not have to pay off the remaining $121,000 football stadium debt before the baseball one is built. But not one penny of Elmbrook funds will be spent on the baseball stadium until Central 4Ward's raises its two-thirds total and the money is in the …
karen peterson
8:33 am on Friday, June 29, 2012
Congratulations BC & Lancer Baseball it will be amazing! more ›