Soccer stadium to be named for coach
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BY SUE KIESEWETTER ENQUIRER CONTRIBUTOR
FAIRFIELD – The soccer stadium where former Fairfield Middle School teacher Christy Rose Dennis spent the happiest days of her life will soon bear her name.
Nearly three years after her sudden death at age 31, the Fairfield High School soccer stadium where Dennis played as a teenager and coached as an adult is poised to be renamed in her honor.
A change last December in the school board’s policy on naming facilities paves the way for the honor.
“One of the reasons we revisited the policy was for Christy,’’ said Dan Murray, vice president of the school board. “I think this is long overdue.’’
Two years ago, the board of education denied a request by a group of family and friends to name the fields after Dennis, a 1991 Fairfield graduate. The board’s policy at that time stated that an individual had to have been away from the district five years before anything could be named after them.
So instead, a cupola in Dennis’ memory was built at the stadium and a memorial garden was planted at the middle school where she taught.
That naming policy has since been revised and on Thursday Superintendent Robert Farrell recommended the stadium be named after Dennis.
A vote is scheduled May 17.Dennis came back to the district after college to teach science and coach soccer. “This will celebrate her life,’’ said Pam Rose, Dennis’ mother. “She was all about kids and the community.
She was on soccer fields since she was seven.”That legacy is continuing in Dennis’ daughter, Keegan, now seven and a student at the Fairfield Kindergarten Center.“Keegan loves soccer and talks about her mother every day,’’ said Rose, with tears in her eyes. “This is wonderful.”
BY SUE KIESEWETTER ENQUIRER CONTRIBUTOR
FAIRFIELD – The soccer stadium where former Fairfield Middle School teacher Christy Rose Dennis spent the happiest days of her life will soon bear her name.
Nearly three years after her sudden death at age 31, the Fairfield High School soccer stadium where Dennis played as a teenager and coached as an adult is poised to be renamed in her honor.
A change last December in the school board’s policy on naming facilities paves the way for the honor.
“One of the reasons we revisited the policy was for Christy,’’ said Dan Murray, vice president of the school board. “I think this is long overdue.’’
Two years ago, the board of education denied a request by a group of family and friends to name the fields after Dennis, a 1991 Fairfield graduate. The board’s policy at that time stated that an individual had to have been away from the district five years before anything could be named after them.
So instead, a cupola in Dennis’ memory was built at the stadium and a memorial garden was planted at the middle school where she taught.
That naming policy has since been revised and on Thursday Superintendent Robert Farrell recommended the stadium be named after Dennis.
A vote is scheduled May 17.Dennis came back to the district after college to teach science and coach soccer. “This will celebrate her life,’’ said Pam Rose, Dennis’ mother. “She was all about kids and the community.
She was on soccer fields since she was seven.”That legacy is continuing in Dennis’ daughter, Keegan, now seven and a student at the Fairfield Kindergarten Center.“Keegan loves soccer and talks about her mother every day,’’ said Rose, with tears in her eyes. “This is wonderful.”
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