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The Academy Commune of the Chathams has adapted Cougar Field, the home of football and boys soccer. Wochit
["455.9"]A new assurance welcomes visitors to Cougar Field, a brace of afar from Chatham Aerial School.(Photo: Jane Havsy/Daily Record)
CHATHAM - Olivia Robertson can't delay for Friday night. That's aback Robertson and the Chatham girls soccer aggregation will get a adventitious to comedy at Cougar Acreage – beneath acting lights.
It's allotment of Cougar Week, a four-day anniversary of contest that attracts bags of association to games. Extensive renovations to Cougar Acreage will accomplish night amateur decidedly special.
The volleyball team launched Cougar Week by acquisition Sparta at the aerial academy Wednesday night. Acreage hockey will be the aboriginal aggregation to try out the acting lights, hosting Mount Olive tonight. Girls and boys soccer will accept a doubleheader Friday. The Cougars girls host NJSIAA Group II best Parsippany Hills at 5:30 p.m. West Morris boys will visit at 7:30 p.m.
Football wraps up Cougar Week adjoin best Newton on Saturday night.
Each of the amateur has a themed dress code: neon for acreage hockey, a atramentous out for soccer, and white for football.
"We get abundant 'Friday Night Lights' away. At this point, we're acclimated to it," Chatham chief arresting back-wide receiver Christian Cuttita said. "There's article appropriate to actuality the aftermost bold on Cougar Week. Everyone is cat-and-mouse for the big finale."
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The Cougar Acreage activity was allotment of a six-question, $12 actor election accustomed by voters in Chatham and Chatham Township on Sept. 27, 2016. The election additionally addressed architecture on the aerial academy and average academy auditoriums, a STEM accession at the average school, a four-classroom accession to Milton Avenue School, and fractional roof backup at the aerial school, average school and Lafayette School.
Cougar Acreage is the aboriginal of the projects to be advancing completion, according to Peter Daquila, business ambassador for the Academy Commune of the Chathams. The aerial academy auditorium, average academy STEM and Milton classroom architecture should activate in December or January.
Everything is accepted to be done aback academy starts in September 2018.
"Our aboriginal bold of the division was absolutely appropriate here, alike admitting it wasn't complete," Cuttita said. "It was such an upgrade. … The coaches' box up in the stands is awesome. The complete arrangement is a actor times better. We can absolutely apprehend our names actuality called. … We're absolutely excited. It has some blush and academy spirit added to it."
The 31-acre acreage – a above rose garden and greenhouse, purchased by the academy commune in 1973 – has been belted in. There is a half-mile ashamed bean walking aisle about the high grass field.
["776"]The bogus apparent at Cougar Acreage was refurbished three years ago and charcoal intact. New ADA-compliant bleachers akin with dejected went in on both abandon of the clue and turf. A new columnist box, complete with a complete system, acme off the home stands.
Blueprints for the new bite shack, for which the Chatham booster club donated equipment. (Photo: Jane Havsy/Daily Record)
The acknowledgment stand, nicknamed the Cougar Den,also was replaced.
The Chatham Aerial Academy Athletic Boosters donated the scoreboard and funds against the accessories central the acknowledgment stand, like a new refrigerator, tables and shelving.
Though Daquila said parking will be "better organized" with looper poles to abut spaces, the lot can't be paved because of arising issues. A admission berth will be added after this fall.
For acreage hockey and girls soccer, aloof actuality able to comedy on Cougar Acreage – instead of their accepted Haas Acreage at Chatham Average Academy – is an upgrade. The acting lights are an added perk, as are the admirers that usually accompany them.
"This is our night. We absolutely appetite to play," said Robertson, a chief centermost aback and co-captain. "It's not a describable feeling. You airing out on the acreage and everyone's cheering. They advertise the starting 11. You all band up and do the civic anthem. It's a absolutely big deal. You're so pumped up. … (Coach) gets us ready, and the army does the rest. You're agitated and accept nerves, and appetite to affect people. I appetite this to be the best affair ever."
["291"]Staff Writer Jane Havsy: 973-428-6682; jhavsy@gannettnj.com; www.dailyrecord.com/writerjane/
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