Cheshire Academy Sports New Turf Field and Track

As Cheshire High School kicks off its football season tonight at a visiting “home” field while its artificial turf field is constructed, Cheshire Academy is preparing to dedicate its new turf field next week.

Cheshire Academy Director of Athletics Brett Torrey said both schools hired the same turf company for the projects; RAD Sports of Rockland, Mass.

The new field at the private boarding school will allow athletes to play night games for the first time. The track was also upgraded to provide six lanes with an eight lane straight away, Torrey said.

 “The football field was much smaller, the track was cinder,” Torrey added.  The new field will accommodate football, boys and girls soccer, field hockey, boys and girls lacrosse and track.

The field will be dedicated on Fri., Sept 23 at about 7:45 p.m. during halftime of the varsity soccer game against Kingwood Oxford School. Football, field hockey and girls soccer will take to the field for the first time the following day, on Sept 24.

The new athletic field is dedicated to Armando Simosa, Class of 2008, who attended a postgraduate year at Cheshire Academy. While a student at Clark University the following year, Simosa returned to his native Venezuela during a school break and was killed by a car going the wrong way on a one-way street.

The dedication ceremony could attract as many as 1,000 visitors said Director of Communications Philip Moore.