At Covenant, there are three aims for our Athletics programming: Character, Commitment, and Community.
Just as our faculty members dedicate themselves to our students' growth and spiritual formation each day in their classrooms, our coaches aim to equip our student-athletes for their lives beyond the field, gym, course, and court. With almost 90% of all Upper School students participating in Athletics – and Grammar School students eagerly awaiting their chance to represent Cavs Nation – an investment in Athletics infrastructure is an investment in our students, our campus, our culture, our community, and our future.
Please help us fulfill our goal of fully funding the Baseball Field. We are actively seeking funding for field lights and a press box. Watch our video and read our FAQs to learn how today's generosity can shape and bless all of our students for years to come. You can also schedule a meeting to learn more or use the "Make a Gift Today" button to support these projects. We are thankful for your generosity. Go, Cavs!
Beyond Baseball: Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the history of this project?
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In 2019, a Covenant family offered the school a gift to accelerate the addition of athletics infrastructure. As athletes themselves, they recognized the unique ability of sports to develop character, and wanted to help the school invest in the spiritual formation of our student-athletes. Their generosity has been an enormous blessing, but we could not have anticipated the cost increases that the construction industry was about to endure due to the 2020 pandemic and resulting economic uncertainty. In early 2020 – and in anticipation of rising construction costs – Covenant moved quickly to guarantee pricing for the construction of the Upper School addition, and the generosity of our community allowed us to move into the new addition in February 2022. In the meantime, planning continued for the athletics infrastructure projects, but our efforts toward engineering, architecture, and permitting were consistently met with discouraging news, expanded timelines, and escalating costs that quickly surpassed the amount of the original gift.Gratitude for Our Community & Building Committee
Despite the setbacks we have experienced, members of our community have continued to invest generously. We are humbled by this generosity, especially because progress reports over the last couple of years have nearly always been frustrating and unsatisfying. But between the initial gift and these additional investments, we were able to begin construction, and we are nearing the final stretch of work on Cavalier Baseball Field. Our faithful Building Committee has worked tirelessly to advance these projects for our school, and creative, cost-saving solutions – many offered by members of our community – have allowed us to save as much as possible through value-engineering without sacrificing quality. - Why is the school seeking to raise additional funds?
Cavalier Baseball Field has offered our players the opportunity to play in front of a home crowd for the first time in the program's 11 years. With $2.36 million already invested, we are in need of an additional $350K to complete several elements that will enhance the spectator experience and add much-desired functionality to our field, including a pressbox and lights. We are asking for help to close out this project, and look forward to the added opportunities for gathering as a community that the new field will provide throughout each spring season.
- How do these projects fit into the overall campus master plan?
As our community has grown over the years, so has our ability to dream about our school's future. When the school began with 14 students and six employees in 1999, we could not have imagined the campus we have today! After years of hosting school in rented, temporary spaces, we began the 2009-2010 school year on our current campus with four, brand-new, portable buildings, a playground, and the Cavalier Football Field. We added the current Upper School Building in 2013, and were blessed to move into the addition to the Upper School – complete with 14 new classrooms, a dining hall, and a library – in the spring of 2022.
Though all of the original campus elements on the Grammar School side of campus have required maintenance and improvements, they have served our school well and, according to the contractors we have partnered with, will continue to serve our mission in the near term as we work toward the long-term master plan for our campus. And while we are continually grateful for the foundation they have provided and will continue to invest in them in the short term, we believe that faithfulness requires us to plan for and move toward permanence.
Once we are able to complete the current athletics infrastructure projects, our school's leadership will be able to turn the full attention of our master planning work toward the planning for a permanent Grammar School and beyond. Each completed project gets us one step closer to the full master plan that will allow Covenant Classical School to deliver on its mission for generations to come.
We are grateful for Four 3rds Creative, Uplyft Creative, and Silver Creek Materials Drone Pilot Ryan McKay.