"You must be tired," Charlotte Riley, mother of Phoebe and Olivia, greeted a late arriver at halftime who battled traffic for an hour and 15 minutes to get to La Jolla's soccer game at Poway Thurs., Dec. 17.
"The year of away games," she said. The mother of the two all-leaguers could commiserate. Everybody is driving more this season, with all games being on the road for soccer, as well as for football and field hockey--any Viking sport played on the football field while it's under construction.
The drive to Otay Ranch for the girls' soccer game Tues., Dec. 15, took one traveler at peak commute time one hour.
Kristin Jones, the girls soccer coach, said she scheduled all of her team's 2014-15 games away, as well, because the original plan was to break ground on construction in December 2014, in the middle of the winter soccer season.
Then, with everyone talking about El Nino coming, think of possible delays in construction during January, February, and March 2016 due to the rains. Jones, potentially, could face a third consecutive season with all or most games at away sites, if construction is delayed substantially.
The original estimate for the duration of the remake of Edwards Stadium, with new locker rooms, coaches offices, press box, and tennis pavilion, was 18 months. Work on the project began right after graduation June 18.
Copyright 2015 Ed Piper
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