Construction at Westminster this year has brought problems for students throughout the school year and is bound to interfere with the upcoming spring sports. Construction will mainly interfere with soccer and lacrosse.

Coach Katie Campbell says that the schedule and the location for lacrosse will change. The construction has required sports to be more flexible, with sharing and no longer having set days to practice.

Coach Scott Snyder says that soccer will also be affected by the construction and need to carefully coordinate with lacrosse, as Kent Field, which has mainly been reserved for soccer in the spring, will also host multiple lacrosse practices. 

Lacrosse practiced on Broyles before construction; however, Broyles is now home to multiple trailers, making it impossible for lacrosse to practice on them. Campbell says that due to Broyles’s condition, the practice locations and the days chosen will vary. The new practice locations include rotating between the softball fields, Kent, and turf fields. Campbell expresses a positive outlook. “It will be a fun game of guessing where the practice is today.”

Construction directly impacts soccer due to lacrosse taking away field space. Snyder states, “We all had spaces that were ours that we could decide how we wanted to use them, and now we have to share them.” Specific activities that once were possible because of the amount of field space are now limited to select days. Scheduling practice activities will now depend on how much field space is available.

Adjusting times will be challenging because Westminster’s Middle School dismisses the latest, and yet Middle School teams need to be finished quickly enough for the varsity teams to practice. It is hard for MS to get out of school and get good practice in time for Varsity to do the same because there is no light. Varsity will run out of time to practice without daylight; due to this constraint, soccer has to make more adjustments than other sports. 

Both coaches express their desire to have more field space so that the overlap will be less of an inconvenience in future circumstances. Soccer and lacrosse are both greatly impacted by construction this spring season. The challenges of sports will require immense organization and patience to work around.