THOUSAND OAKS ENJOYS NEW SHELTER; CLUBHOUSE PROVIDES MAJORS ATMOSPHERE.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Behind home plate at the Thousand Oaks High School Thousand Oaks High School is a high school established in 1962 and located in Thousand Oaks, California. It is a California Distinguished School, and offers curriculum at all levels for Thousand Oaks students. The mascot is the lancer. baseball field stands a large green building. Inside is what coach Bill Sizemore Bill Sizemore (born June 2, 1951 in Aberdeen, Washington) is a political activist in Clackamas, Oregon, United States. Sizemore has never held elected office, but has nonetheless been a major political figure in Oregon since the 1990s. hopes will be home-field advantage. The building, which has long held the nickname ``Green Monster'' because of its size and color, used to be the storage shed. Sizemore turned it into a major-league style clubhouse, complete with lockers, stools, hangars, equipment space and name plates like the pros have. There also is a stereo, a TV and a VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. in the room. The coaches office, up a flight of stairs Noun 1. flight of stairs - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next flight of steps, flight staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps , remains unchanged. ``It's about as close as we can get to the bigs (major leagues) right now,'' pitcher/first baseman Tracy Goebel said. ``All the guys have a place to put their gear instead of taking it to school every day.'' Sizemore has spent many years scouting for various teams and has seen the advantages of having a clubhouse. ``What I try to do is create as much of a pro-style atmosphere as possible,'' Sizemore said. ``The kids love it. It's a good atmosphere to create a lot of camaraderie.'' In the years B.C. (before clubhouse), Sizemore noticed the players changed clothes in their cars, played the game and went home, never stopping to spend time together. Sizemore said during the American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. season, which was the first season with the clubhouse, the players dressed together, and relaxed together before and after games. So he set about making one. All of the tools were moved elsewhere, and professionals came in knock out a wall and clean out the place. ``When it opened (in early June), they could hardly wait to get in,'' he said. ``It's something I always wanted to do. I always thought it would be an added plus.'' Westlake coach Chuck Berrington thinks so, also. He said he's watching Sizemore carefully in hopes of coverting Westlake's shed into a similar clubhouse. ``T.O. has more room,'' Berrington said. ``Westlake's (shed) is so confined. I want to expand it just like he did.'' The project is not finished, Sizemore said. Still to be built is an outdoor enclosed area just off the clubhouse entrance. There will be picnic tables A picnic table (or sometimes a picnic bench) is a modified table with benches expressly for the purpose of eating a meal outdoors (picnicking). In the past, picnic tables were typically made of wood, but modern tables can be made out of anything from recycled plastic to and more area to walk around privately. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. baseball coach Bill Sizemore helped design this lockerroom for his players, making the atmosphere professional. (2) T.O baseball players hope this clubhouse can help provide home-field advantage for the Lancers lanc·er n. 1. A cavalryman armed with a lance. 2. A member of a regiment originally armed with lances. 3. lancers (used with a sing. verb) a. A kind of quadrille. b. . Tina Gerson / Daily News |
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