SportsTurf

October 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. Field of the Year Denson & crew handle salt, weather to win College Soccer award T HE FIELD AT COBB STA- DIUM,University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, was named the Sports Turf Managers Association's 2010 College Soccer Field of the Year. Chris Denson led a crew that includes Geovani DeArmas, German Larios, and Jose Gutierrez. From Denson's award entry: "There are several maintenance challenges we deal with throughout the year. Due to the close proximity to the ocean, there is a small amount of salt water intrusion in our irriga- tion well. If the well is drilled any deeper, the field would be irrigated with brackish water. Due to the shallow fresh water table, the suc- tion line can't be raised to fresher water. This situation is countered with lime and chelated calcium applications and infrequent irriga- tion during the rainy season due to large amounts of rainfall. "Another challenge we have is the variety of turf we have. Soccer has GN-1 variety the same as the practice football field. Al- though the GN-1variety fits the application due to the amount of activity the field re- ceives, there is no sod farm producing this variety in the state of Florida or the joining 38 SportsTurf | October 2011 www.sportsturfonline.com

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