Kings Park Youth Donates Baseball Field to Kings Park High School

Kings Park, NY – October 18, 2012 – Kings Park Youth (KPY) announced the donation of an upgrade to the Kings Park High School JV Baseball field.   The field, which is located on the western end of the school property on Rt. 25A, had become unusable over the last several years due to cutbacks in school funding.   The upgrade will include new fences, cement floors for future dugouts, a sprinkler system and a re-graded, sod field.  

Dr. Susan Agruso, Superintendent of the Kings Park School District, stated “We are very grateful to KPY for their generous donation.  This is a significant improvement to our athletic fields and a terrific example of how the Kings Park community goes above and beyond to support our schools.” 

Darryl Valinchus, President of KPY, stated “we are so happy that we’ve been able to put this together for the school.  Everyone in the school district from the Superintendent, the Athletic Department and the Grounds Maintenance staff have been very supportive through the entire process.  The field will be a model baseball diamond so that our JV baseball team can have a pristine baseball field that all of us in Kings Park can be proud of.”

Work on the field began on September 17^th and is expected to be completed before the end of October.  The field is new sod so it will need the remainder of the fall and winter to take root and will be ready for the spring baseball season for the JV baseball team.  

The field was made possible through the generous contributions of KPY and several of their members including;  Agostinelli Family, Cebulski Family, Gugliuzzo Family, Kings Park Irrigation, Don Brown from Relish Restaurant, Billy Moser from Wamco Electric and DeLea Sod Company.  There are several additional improvements KPY hopes to complete by the spring.  As an example, they will be soliciting additional funds to complete the dugouts.  Anyone interested in helping out is encouraged to contact Glenn Chiuchiolo or Joe Bianco at info@kingsparkyouth.com. 

Kings Park Youth is proud to celebrate over 50 years of service to the community.  KPY fields football, cheerleading, softball and baseball teams for more than 1,200 children per year.  Anyone interested in learning more about KPY can visit www.kingsparkyouth.com or email info@kingsparkyouth.com.