Irrigation&Drainage
RINCETON UNIVER
SITY has fielded a championship women's field hockey
team for more than three
decades and this season has
been a banner year for the
Tigers. For the first time in
program history, the women's field hockey team
won the NCAA Division I National Championship Title in November in a 3-2 victory over
#1-ranked University of North Carolina. The
Tar Heels had been six-time national champs.
Under coach Kristen Holmes-Winn, the
Tigers (21-1) have become known as the "team
of destiny," as they also clinched their 21st Ivy
League trophy in 2012 and count two
Olympians and four US National Team players
on the squad.
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PRINCETON
FIELD HOCKEY TURF
GOES HIGH TECH
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>> THE PRINCETON TIGERS women's field hockey team plays a fast and furious game on
the new AstroTurf 12 JG surface at the campus's recently renovated Bedford Field.
22 SportsTurf | December 2012
Giving the Tigers home turf advantage
is a new state-of-the-art facility at Princeton's Bedford Field. The field is a model
of advanced technologies—from the
custom-designed synthetic turf/drainage
system to an innovative irrigation control and watering program.
"In field hockey the condition of the field is
critical to the playability of the game," says
Princeton Associate Athletic Director for Facilities Jeffrey Graydon.
"The surface has to be wet so that the ball
moves without bouncing. A faster, more consistent playing field ensures a challenging game
that allows the players to compete at the highest
level," he says.
BEDFORD: A TWO-PHASE PROJECT
The Bedford Field project was planned in
two phases: Phase 1 included new turf, updated
drainage and irrigation systems, perimeter fencing and PA. It also features a new field hockeyspecific scoreboard with PCS (penalty corner
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