A new home

Marist cross country and track. For years, for EVER, we have been a team without a home. No track on campus. No place to convene. The most previous generation of our athletes called a racquetball court our “home,” our meeting place, where we convened each day before setting out for a run or out to the vans to go … wherever it is we go on a daily basis. Before the racquetball court, our athletes flopped their bags (and themselves) in the lobby of the McCann Center, in a corner of the McCann gym, in hallways, wherever we could. Well, now, for the first time in our long and nomadic history, we (sort of/kind of) have a home in the McCann Center. There are new lockerrooms in McCann. There is a bank of 56 half-lockers in this fancy new lockerroom, and those 56 lockers are being shared with our brothers and sisters on the swimming team. Word spread quickly among our men and women via group text on Tuesday night. On Wednesday morning, our men and women excitedly moved into their new “homes” using post-it notes to secure their own space. Yeah, some freshmen have to double up. But now we have a place to drop our bags, get changed, maybe even SHOWER after class/before class. What a concept. A team lockerroom. When you’ve had nothing forever and then you get something, it feels extra special. A new home. Baby steps. We’ll take it.