Grass field not cutting it for Oakville's Garth Webb Secondary School

Oakville Beaver

Garth Webb Secondary School teams are scheduled to play 51 regular-season games this spring.

None of them are slated to be contested on Webb soil.

In fact, according to Webb phys-ed head Jay Anderson, the Chargers have hosted just one game a field hockey contest last fall since the school opened two years ago.

The reason? An chronically-saturated athletic field that Anderson wryly suggests might be more appropriately used as a bird sanctuary than as a venue for field hockey, soccer, rugby and football.

A couple of weeks ago, it was just covered with geese. They enjoy it, Anderson says.

Then the smile disappears.

Were a school who has just opened up, so you try to get traditions going. You try to get momentum going for school sports, and then you dont have a field to play on, Anderson says.

That makes it tough.

School thought it was getting artificial turf

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Grass field not cutting it for Oakville's Garth Webb Secondary School