PolyAthletics

Facilities

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A great benefit of having a spectacular 25-acre campus is the outstanding athletic facilities it houses so students have easy access to health, fitness, and sports activities.

Athletic Fields Renovation Project

Thanks to a generous $5 million lead gift, the renovation of athletics fields at our Dyker Heights campus will be completed in 2023. Read more about the April 2022 Opening Day and the athletic fields renovation project.

Matt Roventini new baseball field rendering — Rendering of new athletic fields at Poly Prep

Among the exciting upgrades in the project are:

New state-of-the-art baseball, softball, and soccer practice fields
Installation of environmentally-friendly artificial turf
A comprehensive stormwater and drainage management system
Dugouts for the baseball and softball fields
Scoreboards, batting cages, and bullpens
All new bleachers and a press box
Paved walkways

Our Lower School Physical Education program enjoys a secure playground, an indoor gymnasium for skill building and play—and beautiful Prospect Park for outdoor activities.

This on-site access is integral to the Middle and Upper School student experience at Poly. The Dyker Heights location offers a wide variety of athletic facilities for budding athletes and fitness enthusiasts:

FIELDS – Under Renovation in 2021-2023

Our current turf field is home to Poly’s Football, Boys’ and Girls’ Soccer, Boys’ and Girls’ Lacrosse, and Ultimate programs.
Poly has a full regulation-size natural grass field that’s primary use is for Boys’ and Girls’ Soccer as well as for junior varsity teams.
Our baseball players train and compete on our baseball field.
The Poly Prep Softball diamond sits diagonally opposite the baseball diamond. It features a skinned infield and enclosed team benches.

BASEBALL & SOFTBALL TRAINING CENTER

One of only a few indoor baseball/softball facilities in New York City, this innovative structure houses three individual batting and pitching tunnels inside an all-season “bubble,” allowing Poly’s Baseball and Softball student-athletes to train regardless of weather conditions.

TRACK AND FIELD FACILITY

Poly student-athletes train and compete on our iconic blue and gray, six-lane Mondotrack. The Track and Field facilities at Poly also include areas for jumping and throwing field events. The campus is also utilized for cross country running and endurance training.

GYMNASIUMS

Poly Prep has multiple gyms for indoor sports and training.

The Legacy Gym was recently upgraded with professional-level hardwood floors and new scoreboards. It features a competition court as well as a practice court. It has 10 baskets and can house three volleyball courts making it an ideal training facility for Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball and Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball.

The state-of-the-art Novogratz Center for Athletics first opened its doors for competition in 2015. The 27,900 s.f. facility is home to the Poly Prep Wrestling, Boys’ and Girls’ Squash, Boys’ and Girls’ Volleyball programs. It also is used for Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball practice and games, as well as various Middle and Upper School Physical Education classes.

FITNESS CENTERS

Poly Prep has two fitness centers on the Dyker Heights campus. The High Performance Lab (HPL) contain the tools and equipment used by our skilled strength and conditioning staff, coaches, and physical educators to help each student achieve their short- and long-term fitness and lifelong wellness goals.

The advanced HPL facility boasts professional grade equipment. It currently includes: 5 Sorinx Rack Systems (with a wide variety of dumbells and kettle bells), 2 jammer arms, a VertiMax, plyometric equipment, resistance bands, medicine balls, yoga mats, Run Rocket Sprint Resistant Trainer, spin bikes, treadmills, rowers, and a Jacobs Ladder Climbing Machine.

TENNIS COURTS

The Boys’ and Girls’ Tennis teams train and compete on campus on six recently upgraded blue hard courts with bench seating.

POOLS

The Poly Prep campus has three pools. The Poly Prep Boys’ and Girls’ Swim teams utilize our four-lane indoor pool. Poly also recently added two new heated outdoor pools that our teams use for aquatic training and conditioning.