San Marcos teaches community in the field

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Leave it to a public high school to score such a powerful lesson plan. And with it begins a new era in Santa Barbara athletics on the South Coast. Wednesday evening’s official ribbon cutting of San Marcos High School’s buffed new Warkentin Stadium and Sut Puailoa Field is a textbook study on community impact – a final unveiling of The Field of Champions Campaign, a near two-year initiative to replace the school’s aged football/soccer natural grass field with new state-of-the-art … [Read more...]

Sports Figure of the Month: John & Mardi Warkentin

John and Mardi Warkentin put three student-athletes through San Marcos High School and donated $500,000 to the Field of Champions project which successfully installed a synthetic turf field and made other upgrades at San Marcos.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Presidio Sports will be unveiling its Sports Figures of the Month for the summer months during this first week of September. Stay tuned for articles on Bill Pintard (July) and Orlando Johnson (August) next week. Nominations for September can be made here.It’s takes a community to raise a stadium – and San Marcos High School has done just that.The school's two-year Field of Champions project to raise $1M for a new synthetic turf and track is nearing completion thanks … [Read more...]

San Marcos breaks ground on Warkentin Stadium field

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Although the earth movers beat them to it, members of the San Marcos Field of Champions committee and major donors John and Mardi Warkentin dug up some old grass with their blue and red shovels during a ceremonial ground-breaking for a new synthetic field surface at the renamed Warkentin Stadium on Tuesday.With the Warkentin’s incredibly generous $500,000 donation, the project to install a state-of-the-art turf field and a new all-weather track is well on its way to being … [Read more...]

Warkentin donation spurs San Marcos to break ground on new field

The Warkentin family has made great contributions to athletics at San Marcos High, with siblings Kara, Mark and Paul all excelling in their respective sports at the school,  earning college scholarships and playing internationally.Now parents John and Mardi Warkentin are making their mark, not only at San Marcos but in the entire Santa Barbara community.The Warkentin family is donating $500,000 to The Field of Champions project, and the school announced it will break ground on the new … [Read more...]

Top-ranked Cate’s ‘Dream Season’ still perfect

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Cate School's boys soccer team currently sits at 13-0, having outscored opponents 70-4. They are the top-ranked team in Division VII, and recently found out that they are ranked 41st in the nation."In truly the season of Santa Barbara being 'Soccer Heaven,' we're trying to do our little part," said Athletic Director Wade Ransom at Monday's Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Press luncheon.One of the team's young stars, Teddy Mauze, was at Harry's to be honored at Male Athlete of the … [Read more...]