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Boost for sporting facilities
31 March 2010
Kirsten Bolinger
Public relations editorial assistant
Avondale College and the Fit Life Health Club have teamed up to build new and improve existing sporting facilities on the Lake Macquarie campus.
The new facilities include a cricket and a golf net near the sports ground behind the Chan Shun Auditorium. The improved facilities include the installation of four banks of lights on the ground and the resurfacing of the tennis courts with synthetic grass.
The installation of lights means Fit Life, the privately operated business managing Avondale's sporting facilities, can now more easily organise team-based competitions such as touch football and hire the ground to community organisations, says manager Levi Martin. It will also mean the auditorium is subject to less wear, as soccer moves from being an indoor competition to an outdoor competition.
The cricket net will include the laying of a 10-metre by three-metre concrete slab, which will be partially covered by synthetic grass. A three-sided fence with a two-panel roof will enclose and cover the slab. A five-metre by three-metre golf net with a three-metre drop will attach to the inside of the fence.
The estimated cost of the cricket and golf nets and tennis court resurfacing is almost $60,000. Two donors, one of whom is office automation systems manufacturer Lanier, will help cover the cost.
Both Levi and Avondale's vice-president (finance) Francois Keet say the improvements are overdue.
Caption: The sports ground behind the Chan Shun Auditorium on Avondale College's Lake Macquarie campus can now be used at night after the installation of new lighting.
Credit: Aaron Bellette
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