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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Two Boardman High School students, Rachel Hritz and Jessica Rauschenberg, painted one of the walls in the renovated girls locker room.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.The Boardman High School girls basketball team and coaches had the chance to see the finished renovated locker room on June 1.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
What started out as a need for a few changes turned into an entire renovation for the Boardman High School girls’ locker room.
Thanks to various donors and sponsors who made the renovation possible, the new locker room will serve the girls volleyball team and the varsity girls basketball team. The locker room was made as a tribute to Christine Moschella-Terlesky.
“It’s a nice place where they can feel comfortable and relax. They can use this as a study room, prepare for basketball games,” said assistant varsity coach Justin Coffin.
Coffin, other coaches and the team thought it was a good idea to try and spruce up their own locker room after traveling to different schools and seeing the other girls’ locker rooms. The whole project took only a month to complete. It began on May 2 and was finished on June 1.
“It’s absolutely amazing, it’s transformed completely,” said upcoming senior player Annaliisa Cordova. “I remember coming in here my freshman year and I thought it was super cool because we had our own locker room. Then as I started I saw the other locker rooms and I thought ours wasn’t as great as I thought it was. Now I come in here and it’s the best locker room, technically the best room, in the school.”
The basketball team volunteered a lot of their time, along with the coaching staff and some members of National Honor Society. Everyone worked hard to complete the project and for it to turn out as well as it could.
Players mentioned that the room was created for them and all they ask in return is for the team to play as hard as they can, and now they have even more motivation to do so.
“I think it’s really cool having all of us come together and making this happen for a good cause. It’s close to my heart,” said Jenna Vivo, upcoming senior player and niece of Terlesky.
Everyone involved in the project was extremely happy with the turnout and how everything came together.
The teams and coaching staff are looking forward to the upcoming school year and being able to utilize the new and improved locker room.