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For the first time in school history, St. John Bosco opens the season at No. 1 nationally.
The newly-anointed Homecoming King of the 2018 high school football season will be chauffeured into the year with a brand new stadium.
Head coach Jason Negro and school president Dennis Mulhaupt, among others, spoke at a dedication for Panish Family Stadium, which seats 5,000 fans and was financed entirely through the generosity of Bosco alumni and parents.
The field and amenities are first-rate, but no doubt most will be
talking about the scoreboard that spans 30 feet wide and features a LED
video board display and lighting system.
Without a track around the football field, fans will be largely right on top of the action.
The Braves, led by the nation's top-rated junior quarterback
D.J. Uiagalelei, open the season at home against Timpview (Utah) on Aug. 17.
St. John Bosco's new Panish Family Stadium was unveiled on Tuesday.
Photo by Heston Quan
Negro believes the Braves now have "one of the most football friendly facilities in the entire state of California."
Negro has helped turn Bosco, a school of about 800 students, into a perennial national power. Over the last 10 years, the Braves have gone 100-29, won two state titles and featured players like current Arizona Cardinals quarterback
Josh Rosen and Kansas City Chiefs guard
Damien Mama.
The pretty new stadium is a concrete, crowning jewel to the program's hard-hat reconstruction over the last decade.
"Our goal was to build a facility that could attract national powerhouse programs to come to California and play in nationally ranked games," Negro said. "I think we have set the bar extremely high here and will achieve this goal.
"Teams from all over the country will want to come and play in beautiful Southern California in the coming years."
Jason Negro address St. John Bosco family and students at Tuesday's dedication to the new Panish Family Stadium.
Photo by Heston Quan
Players and students at a special section of St. John Bosco's new $7.2-million Panish Family Stadium.
Photo by Heston Quan
