December 2, 2009 - Brophy Soccer says "...it was a long time coming." With Father Reese, Principal Bob Ryan, Vice President Adria Renke & Jeff Glosser -Asst. Principal for Activities- on hand, Coaches Marc Kelly '87, Noah Lewkowitz '98, Paul Fisko and Paul Allen '03 took to the field. Their Varsity and J.V. teams were the first to "christen" the field at the new Brophy Sports Campus.

Before practice, the Varsity team lined up to shake hands with the administrators and to thank them for new facility.

The artificial turf field continues to be on schedule. The forms are laid for the track and the layers are in place for field drainage.

October 29, 2009 - Here we are at the beginning of November and almost all the underground piping is in, wrought iron fencing has begun the natural turf field will be playable by December 1st and once our Brophy teams get on those fields, we shall be in business!!!! Stay tuned for landscaping, coming soon!

October 7, 2009 - NEWS FLASH! The Brophy Sports Campus is quickly becoming a reality this first week of October!

Sod is going in as this is written with completion of the natural grass playing fields slated for the week of October 12th. Lime stabilization is occurring on the Field Turf artificial field and track simultaneously. Protective ball fences line the 7th Street side of the property already in anticipation of students using the field when the turf is established near the end of this year.

Within the next few weeks wrought iron fencing will appear followed by bounties of ash trees donated by Brophy’s great friends Brian Blake’77 and Cindy Graber, owners of Whitfill nurseries. Watch this website for updates on our progress!
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October 1, 2009 - NEWS FLASH!   By the first week of October you will see GRASS on the Sports Campus natural grass field at 7th Street and Highland!! Wrought iron fencing and trees around the perimeter of the property are coming next and Brophy once again thanks Brian Blake ‘77 and Whitfill Nurseries for all their generous donations! Of course it won’t be playable until the lawn gets established and Mother Nature plays a big role in that!  Stay tuned!

September 11, 2009 – PRESS RELEASE!  Located at 7th Street and Highland Avenue in north central Phoenix, the facility will provide Brophy College Preparatory with the much needed field space for all its teams.

Jeff Glosser, Assistant Principal for Activities offers, “Brophy has had ONE field for football, soccer, lacrosse and all the practices for freshmen, junior varsity and varsity teams.  Brophy students apply for admissions from about 150 grade schools and middle schools valley-wide as far as Ahwatukee, New River, Verrado and Fountain Hills.  When these students are involved in sports it is difficult for carpools and timing to have practices before school or very late into the evening.  The new Brophy Sports Campus will revolutionize our practice schedule.”

Brophy has spent the last few years raising money for the final phase of their Major Gifts Campaign and through this fund-raising, currently has $5.2M in cash restricted for this project.  “We are excited to be getting this project off the ground,” says Father Eddie Reese, S.J., Brophy’s President, “and we are only spending monies we have collected already which are designated for this campus.  This phase will give us a Field Turf synthetic soccer/football/lacrosse field, an all weather track and natural grass practice fields.  Our coaches and students are so excited to start using it.”

The natural turf field is due to be ready by mid-November and the artificial turf and ancillary buildings will be done by April, 2010.