Fields defy best efforts

As an athlete attending Estancia High School, I have experienced the

joys of playing on our school’s facilities and then other schools’

facilities, including those located in Newport Beach.

I am going to have to completely agree that the school district is

discriminating against those of us who attend and play sports at the

Costa Mesa high schools. Why do the high schools in the same school

district as mine have so much better facilities than my school? Yes,

most of those facilities were paid for by donations from alumni,

parents and boosters, but what about after they are built and used?

None of those people who paid for it are out there mowing the lawn or

fixing irrigation.

It is the school district out there mowing, seeding and fixing

things that are broken. So, as an athlete playing on a field that is

dirt and rocks compared to the schools in Newport, I know the same

people should maintain my fields. Even after knowing all this, I

still go out there and give everything I have to the sport I am

playing because I love it.

As a dedicated athlete, I still sit and wonder if our football

team could improve more than ever if it had a nicely maintained

practice field; our boys soccer team could have gone to California

Interscholastic Federation if its best players did not get hurt on

their own field; the girls soccer team could win more games if they

had a safer place to practice; the baseball team could come out with

a stronger defense if it had a bullpen to warm up its pitchers in;

and runners could run faster without worrying about potholes in the

track.

BRIDGET BROWN

Costa Mesa