PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Student athletes at Grant High School (GHS) will play another season without a game at their home field, dubbed the Grant Bowl, because it is not equipped with stadium lights.
During the day, football, soccer and cross-country athletes can practice on the turf field at GHS in northeast Portland. But once the sun goes down, these students have to go elsewhere.
“They can’t even run a full track day here because it gets dark in spring,” said Lucy Kapranos, a senior at GHS and captain of the girls’ soccer team. “They were running races in the dark and they couldn’t see who was finishing in what places. It was so weird.”
In July, the City of Portland approved a request to install stadium lights at the Grant Bowl. But Portland Public Schools (PPS) told FOX 12 that becau