More than a decade ago, Mission Bay High School\u2019s basketball coach and parents pulled together funds to designate a room to the boys athletic teams to meet and store their personal gear. Now it\u2019s time to do the same for the female athletes, decided a few Mission Bay mothers. The parents raised nearly $24,000 to renovate a storage room into an environmentally friendly team room comprising recycled materials. Las Patronas, a volunteer group that provides grants to nonprofits, donated $20,000 for cabinets and lockers. The high school\u2019s alumni association raised money for ultra-efficient ceiling fans and low violate organic compound (VOC) paint for the walls. Mission Beach Woman\u2019s Club offered $4,000 to install recycled rubber floors. “What is really special in my mind\u00a0about this project is that two women-run organizations \u2013 Las Patronas and Mission Beach Woman\u2019s Club \u2013 were the large donors for the girls team room,” said Pam Deitz, director of the high school\u2019s alumni association. Deitz has a child at Mission Bay High School and a child at Pacific Beach Middle School. “They made this vision possible for our young women. It is a fabulous message.” A parent of two basketball athletes at the high school, Kristen Victor spearheaded the project and wrote the grant with Jennifer Tandy, another parent at the school. Pat Hom, president of the Parent Teacher Organization, and Crystal Frasca, head of the PE department, assisted the effort. “There was no financial support offered whatsoever [by the school],” Victor said. “I approached the principal and she said, \u2018Here\u2019s the room but there\u2019s no money.\u2019” A few thousand is still needed to complete the girls team room. An interior designer, Victor believed the room should be renovated as environmentally friendly as possible. For example, the cabinets are made of recycled materials with water-based glues and stains that do not contain formaldehyde. “You don\u2019t want to produce toxins when athletes are working out,” Victor said. “It\u2019s about making choices that don\u2019t provide that.” Victor has also written an educational model for the district outlining solutions and products for making “green choices.” “We\u2019re very grateful and very appreciative of the efforts of the women, particularly Kristen Victor,” said Mission Bay Principal Cheryl Seelos, who had said the school budget could not fund renovations for the team room.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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