CRANBERRY TWP — Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School officially opened in August.

Its new-look athletic program is only just beginning.

The school offered eight sports to students when it was on Pittsburgh’s North Side. But beginning this fall, it will offer 20.

“We’re anticipating consistent rise in enrollment over the next few years, and we’re keeping our athletics in line with that,” athletic director Mike Burrell said.

The high school has an enrollment of 290 this year. School officials expect to have more than 400 next year.

The school was built to accommodate 1,000 students.

“Eventually, I can see us hitting that number or coming very close to it,” Burrell said. “Before the school was built here, the closest available faith-based education for kids in this region was probably Central Catholic.”

Fall sports offered by North Catholic in 2015-16 will be football, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls soccer, golf, girls tennis and volleyball.

Winter sports will be boys and girls basketball, boys and girls swimming and wrestling.

Spring sports will be baseball, softball, boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls track and field, and crew.

“By the time everything is said and done here, all of our teams will have venues on campus except for tennis, swimming and crew,” Burrell said.

That includes construction of a football stadium, running track and second gymnasium — to be between the school and Route 228 — when the appropriate funding is raised.

Burrell said the school’s gymnasium is “practically fully booked” now with more demands expected down the road.

“We’re going to need that second gym,” he said.

The estimated cost of the stadium/gym facility is $15 million.

“That’s a large amount of money for private funding, which is why we have no timetable for that project,” Burrell said.

Ground has already been broken and sod laid for the school’s baseball, softball, lacrosse and soccer fields. When the weather improves, construction will resume on those venues.

“We’re told those fields can be done in a month,” Burrell said. “We plan to be using those fields this spring. The scoreboard and dugouts will be put up in March.”

The school will spend $250,000 for that work.

The school this spring will offer boys lacrosse as a varsity sport. Girls lacrosse will be a club sport this year and a varsity sport next year.

North Catholic played its home football games at J.C. Stone Field in North Park last fall. This fall, it will likely use neighboring high school stadiums.

“We’re talking to Seneca Valley, Mars, North Allegheny ... We’ll likely use whatever stadium is available on a given Friday night for our home games,” Burrell said. “We believe in Friday night high school football.

“Of our 290 kids, 50 played football this fall. That’s 18 percent of our student population in just one sport. We want to take care of those kids.”