track & field

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Apr, 2016

Track & Field returns to Uni!

By: admin | Tags: track & field, Dick Kampmann | Comments: 0

[Posted April 2, 2016] It took more than a decade and a concerted effort to get a new, quality track installed, but home track & field meets are now a regular occurrence at Uni. Pictured above: Start of the Boys Varsity 1,600 m race vs. Hamilton and San Pedro (Photos courtesy Ivan Finkle/UHEF) The first meet was a practice (non-scoring) affair vs. Fairfax and L.A. Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) on Thursday, March 10, followed by a three-team meet vs. San Pedro and Hamilton on March 16. The Uni-San Pedro […]

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Feb, 2016

Uni track & field records reconstructed, sort of . . .

By: admin | Tags: track & field, records | Comments: 0

[Posted February 5, 2016] Thanks to the new Rekortan S all-weather track installed last fall, Uni will once again host track & field meets for the first time in more than a decade this spring. Pictured above: From the 1974 Chieftain, David Duffy (at right) and Steve Rosen in the 220-yard dash vs. Pali! In conjunction with this, the Uni Hi Education Foundation has received multiple alumni requests for a current list of Uni school track & field records. For decades, the Uni records “list” was kept on a giant […]

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May, 2015

All-weather track now installed at Uni as field project completed

By: admin | Tags: football, track & field, Ohno Construction | Comments: 0

[Posted May 15, 2015] The hard, uneven dirt that was the University High School football field and track are no more. A gorgeous AstroTurf field and bright red, Rekortan S all-weather track are now available after the completion of the field and track renovation this week. The old field and cinder track were plowed under in late 2014 and the site cleared in December. From there, the lengthy process of getting the field surface installed took a little more than four months. The track under-surface was completed about the same […]

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Apr, 2015

New Uni Football Field Nearly Complete with the New Track to Be Poured in May

By: admin | Tags: track & field, football field | Comments: 0

[Posted April 15, 2015] Hard hats and safety vests were distributed to a half-dozen Uni alumni and supporters on April 7, who toured the remarkable new football field now almost completely installed, with the all-weather track to follow. Pictured above: The new, AstroTurf-covered Uni football field (Photo courtesy UHEF) Steven Oh of Ohno Construction, which is managing the installation, described in detail the new, state-of-the-art field, featuring AstroTurf 3D60 Extreme. Although a synthetic carpet, the look and feel of the fibers are very much like grass, but with considerably more […]

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Sep, 2014

Uni to get new football field and all-weather track . . . at last!

By: admin | Tags: LAUSD Facilities Division, baseball, football, track & field, Eric Davidson, Wendy Axel, FieldTurf | Comments: 0

[Posted September 9, 2014] A lengthy campaign to updated Uni’s ancient athletic facilities will finally reach fruition with the start of construction later this month on a new FieldTurf football field, surrounded by an eight-lane, all-weather track. Pictured above: An archived aerial view of Uni, with Cavanagh Field in the middle, circa 2008 (before the current gymnasium was built). [Google Earth photograph] The Facilities Division of the Los Angeles Unified School District has confirmed the project, with groundbreaking slated for late September. Completion is expected in the spring, perhaps even […]

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