Kelly Ann Doualla, the golden girl of athletics cuts the ribbon of “her” sports fields

Sant'Angelo Lodigiano (Lodi) – Rising athletics star Kelly Ann Doualla , the fifteen-year-old “black arrow” who set the Italian Under-23 record in the 60 metres indoors, yesterday morning inaugurated the brand new sports fields at the Pandini Commercial and Surveying Technical Institute in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, which she attends, for which two million were spent , including the fire-fighting system.

Alongside Mayor Cristiano Devecchi (both in the photo), Kelly cut the ribbon for the first school building project in Lodi financed by the Pnrr. Also present was the President of the Province Fabrizio Santantonio , who reiterated that the project is “split across 15 construction sites financed with 56 million, to which are added four million from the provincial coffers”.

Lodi is the fifteenth province in Italy for absolute amount of investments in school buildings, second in Italy for amount per capita. "We focus on young people and sports. We will build a new sports facility with regional funding. Then two indoor tennis courts and we will redo the changing rooms, also for Sant'Angelo Calcio". Also present at the inauguration of the sports fields were Daniela Verdi, principal of Pandini, and Maria Angela Ascrizzi of the Provincial School Office, delegate for Sports and Civil Protection. For Verdi, Pandini "is a cutting-edge school because it puts into practice the motto 'a healthy mind in a healthy body', which is the basis of the Western pedagogical model".

In detail, 350 thousand euros were spent to redevelop the external area of ​​2,226 square meters that previously lacked sports spaces suitable for sports activities, where an athletics track with four regulation lanes was planned, a soccer field, tennis, basketball and volleyball court while 1.3 million euros were used for fire safety adaptations, the works of which will be completed by the end of October.

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