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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.”
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