Northgate
Vikings
Baseball
players
paused
between
a
double-header
against
Sandy
Creek on
Saturday,
March
17, to
cut the
ribbon
on the
team’s
new
baseball
facility.
The
Vikings
and
booster
parents
were
joined
by
several
school
and
school
system
officials
to
officially
open the
student
training
facility,
and to
recognize
the
parents
and
community
members
who
worked
to build
it.
Northgate
Baseball
booster
parent
Danny
Kirkland
said the
new
facility
was
built
for
Northgate
High
baseball
players
and
Coach
Greg
Hamilton,
and was
accomplished
“because
of all
of you,”
he told
parents.
Baseball
booster
parents
began
raising
funds in
2004 for
the
building.
The
two-story
facility
includes
batting
and
pitching
cages,
baseball
locker
rooms
and
other
facilities,
all
connected
to the
Viking’s
dugout
on the
Northgate
campus.
The
parents
raised
funds
for the
building,
and were
helped
by
Northgate
and the
county
school
system
to build
the
facility.
Superintendent
Blake
Bass
noted
that
several
parents
who
began
planning
and
fundraising
for the
facility
no
longer
had
children
at the
school.
The
booster
club
parents
have
built “a
lasting
tribute
to
Northgate
High
School
and the
Coweta
County
School
System,”
he said.
“This is
a first
class
facility…
and it
is an
example
of what
parents
and the
community
can do”
for
students.
Bass was
joined
by
Coweta
County
Board of
Education
members
Frank
Farmer,
Sue
Brown
and
Winston
Dowdell,
Northgate
Principal
Therese
Reddekopp
and
Assistant
Principal
Bill
Harrison,
among
others,
to help
parents
cut a
ribbon
officially
opening
the new
facility.
Northgate
High
School
parent
John
Doolittle,
center,
and
Northgate
Vikings
booster
club
parent
Danny
Kirkland,
right,
speak to
parents
and
student
athletes
Saturday
at the
opening
of the
high
school’s
new
baseball
training
facility.
Parents
raised
funds
for the
new
facility
for
nearly
three
years.
Coweta
County
Board of
Education
members
Frank
Farmer,
left,
and
Winston
Dowdell,
right,
toured
the
newly-opened
Northgate
Vikings
baseball
training
facility
Saturday,
March
17,
after
joining
parents
and
other
dignitaries
to cut
the
ribbon
on the
new
student
facility.
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