Boys' Latin's J. Duncan Smith Field gets a new turf

The Lakers hold a preseason workout on the new surface as fall workouts approach

Gary Adornato | Jul 25, 2024

Boys' Latin football players go through a preseason workout on the newly turf surface on J. Duncan Smith Field. / Boys' Latin School of Maryland

Boys' Latin School of Maryland football team held its first preseason workout on a newly installed synthetic turf field, Thursday, as J. Duncan Smith Field, the Lakers' home stadium, got a face lift.

J. Duncan Smith Field is the primary home to the Lakers' football program as well as its nation powerhouse lacrosse program. The new turf has a large BL logo at midfield. In addition, an oval shaped emblem containing the year 1844, the year the school was founded, resides between the 20 and 30 yard lines on each side of the field.

The current turf was installed in 2014 on J. Duncan Smith Field, which is situated on the lower part of the BL campus and has concrete bleachers on one side of the stadium.

Boys' Latin School's J. Duncan Smith Field

Aerial view of the new turf field at J. Duncan Smith Field on the campus of the Boys' Latin School of Maryland. / Boys' Latin School of Maryland

In addition, the demolition is underway on the school's LeBrun Coaches Field, on the upper part of the campus. This field is primarily used by the school's soccer program and some of its undersquad teams. It's new field will be installed and ready to go for the fall season.

Boys' Latin football is coming off a 3-6 2023 season. The Lakers, who were in their first season under new head coach Anthony Rinaudo, went 2-4 in the MIAA B Conference and missed the conference playoffs. The Boys' Latin lacrosse team went 14-3 last spring and fell, 14-12, in the MIAA A Conference championship game to McDonogh.

Published Jul 25, 2024

GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.