This position is primarily responsible for assisting with overall care of the sports fields in and around Miller Park and the youth baseball facility. Secondary concern is the landscape surrounding the facility.
The Foundation for Safer Athletic Field Environments (SAFE), the charitable arm of the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA), raised more than $27,000 for scholarship, research and education during the 2009 STMA Conference and Exhibition held in San Jose last month.
To ensure that Toro grounds customers continue to have access to financing at market competitive rates, the company announced that it has reached agreement with three additional financial service firms to support equipment and irrigation system sales through the company's distribution channel.
Although town officials are going out of their way not to alarm parents of town athletes, Needham, MA is working on instituting regular testing of the town’s new artificial fields to monitor levels of chemicals in the nearby soil.
Global Sports Alliance-USA is partnering with Cornell University and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission of New York and New Jersey on an Eco-Friendly Playfield Project.
When Texas played Texas A&M at Royal-Memorial Stadium this past November, players from both football teams slipped on the grass field, which also started flying up in clumps. Now, after a dozen years, grass will be getting the boot from UT's home field. At a meeting of the men's athletics council on Wednesday, DeLoss Dodds, UT's men's athletic director, said part of the $27 million south end zone construction project will include the replacement of the stadium's natural grass field with a synthetic turf.
With a recent flurry of winter storms doing little to dampen California's latest drought, the nation's biggest public utility voted on Tuesday to impose water rationing in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two decades.
Drainage failures are one of the major problems confronting owners and operators of synthetic turf sports fields. A proposed new standard that provides a test for vertical permeability of synthetic turf will be useful to designers, testing agencies and contractors in minimizing problems associated with field drainage.
Desert Falls International Sports Resorts Developers decided to take a chance on Mesquite, UT as the site of its sprawling 920-acre, $500-million sports resort. Tuesday afternoon city council decided to take a chance on Desert Falls.
