The entire 740-member student body, administrators, faculty, staff, and more than 150 guests attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Convent of the Sacred Heart’s new athletic center September 9.
The entire 740-member student body, administrators, faculty, staff, and more than 150 guests attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Convent of the Sacred Heart’s new athletic center September 9. The 35,000-square-foot athletic center is the central piece in a major renovation of the independent, Catholic all-girls’ school, located on 118 acres in Greenwich. In addition, the project includes an expanded dining room and outdoor commons area.
The athletic center contains three gymnasiums for the school’s basketball and volleyball teams, six squash courts, a large multi-purpose space for student assemblies, yoga/dance studio, sports medicine center, fitness center, and class space for physical education, press box, trainer, and administrative offices.
On Saturday from 1-4, the school will host a “First Look” for the community will celebrate the opening of the new facilities. On September 30, The Most Rev. Frank J. Caggiano, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, will bless the new center. The bishop will celebrate the first Mass of the school year in the expansive new space designed for all-school assemblies and liturgies.
