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Bonsall High School's athletic program will be supplemented by a $1,000 California Casualty Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant.
A 4-0 Bonsall Unified School District board vote April 22, with Erin English absent, accepted the grant for the high school athletics program which will begin in Fall 2015.
"Every little bit helps. Athletics are expensive," said BUSD superintendent Justin Cunningham.
The California Casualty Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant was established to provide support for public high school sports programs which have been negatively impacted by reduced budgets. (Thomas R. Brown is the grandson of California Casualty founder Carl Brown.) The competitive grant program offers awards of $1,000 to $3,000. The grant award money must be used to subsidize public school sports programs. The purchase of equipment and competition travel costs are eligible expenses. The grant money cannot be used for construction projects, individual student awards, or organizations whose primary purposes is fundraising. A school may not receive a California Casualty Thomas R. Brown Athletics Grant two years in a row.
Bonsall High School opened in August 2014 with ninth-graders only. The CIF San Diego Section's Board of Managers also had an April 22 meeting and unanimously voted to approve CIF membership for Bonsall High School. The Legionnaires are expected to field boys and girls cross-country, girls and boys golf, girls and boys tennis, girls volleyball, and boys and girls soccer during 2015-16, when the school will have ninth-grade and tenth-grade students and Bonsall High School will be in the Apollo League.
The Bonsall school district's project-based learning program included the 2013-14 eighth-grade students selecting a proposed nickname for the new high school and providing a presentation to the school board justifying that nickname. The nickname Legionnaires was chosen because of legionnaires' traits including discipline, training, and working together. "That's what we want to build this high school," Cunningham said.
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