SportsTurf

May 2011

SportsTurf provides current, practical and technical content on issues relevant to sports turf managers, including facilities managers. Most readers are athletic field managers from the professional level through parks and recreation, universities.

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F.O.Y. M Field of the Year High school instructor leads another winning team ARC MORAN, THE HORTICULTURE/ TURFGRASS INSTRUCTOR for Atlee High School in Mechanicsville, VA led his stu- dent staff to an STMA Field of the Year Award for the second consecutive year, this time for Schools/Parks Soccer Field of the Year. His student crew also was honored with the 2009 Softball award for Schools/Parks. Moran began working on the school’s practice field in 2000 as part of a landscape class project, which led to the athletic adminis- tration and booster club asking him to take over managing Atlee High School became the first in the state to teach Turf Science as a recognized course. Given the available access to the school’s sports fields, Moran adopted them as his “land laboratory.” 36 SportsTurf | May 2011 www.sportsturfonline.com

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