Cabrillo High School’s long-awaited stadium improvement project received a major financial boost this month, as the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians committed a $500,000 matching grant to help revitalize the school’s field and track.

The project — estimated at $8 million — aims to install a synthetic turf athletic field and a polyurethane, all-weather seven-lane track, upgrades that would allow Cabrillo to host its own varsity football games and CIF-sanctioned track events.

The 59-year-old campus has been without a functional field for about a decade, according to the Cabrillo Athletic Field and Track Fundraising Committee (CAFTFC), forcing the school’s football team to play its "home" games at Huyck Stadium — now known as the Lompoc Community Track and Field — on the rival campus

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