SportsTurf

September 2016

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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We hear from Sun & Christi SportsTurf: How many people do you have to work on how many fields? How do you determine who should do what and when? Sun & Christi: As stadium managers, we work year round at the North Area Athletic Complex (NAAC). During the summer, we have 2-3 seasonal employees and one of those guys stays on to help us through the fall season. We have a 5,000-seat football stadium and a 2,500- seat soccer stadium that are side by side along with roughly 9 additional acres of turf that comprise the NAAC. We are the home stadium for six of the local high schools, and they play their home varsity football and soccer games here. As far as who does what and when, we have a general maintenance calendar to keep us organized and on the same page. Each morning we discuss what needs to be accomplished for the day or week on the fi elds as well as extra projects. As stadium managers, we are both responsible for every aspect of managing the turf, maintaining the stadium, as well as scheduling game workers and supervising events held at the NAAC. Jeffco Schools has a great support staff of plumbers, electricians, HVAC and building maintenance crews so they help us with the more technical repairs. During the spring soccer season we compare our maintenance calendar to our games schedule to fi nd a day with no games slated so we can squeeze in some sort of cultural practice. The soccer fi eld gets mowed daily or as needed dependent on growth. Divot repairs are a daily occurrence after every game, and seed is broadcast in the goalmouths regularly. We host between 8 and 10 girls' soccer games per week (typically double headers) starting the fi rst week of March through May, so the off days are crucial! Spring break is our chance to pull cores, seed and topdress. This is also usually when we get our irrigation turned on. Fall soccer is very similar for the boys' season, beginning in late August and running through mid-October. The football fi eld is a bit more regimented in the fall. Football games are scheduled every Thursday and Friday night, which is often a double header, and an occasional Saturday. We know that Wednesday is football fi eld paint day, which takes all three of us, so that day is dedicated to the football fi eld. A typical week Category of Submission: Schools/Parks Football Sports Turf Managers: Sun Roesslein, CSFM, and Christina Clay Original construction: 1959 Rootzone: 100% sand Turfgrass variety: HGT composed of Barrister KBG, Barvette KBG, Barduke KBG; and RPR, including Baralpha and Barbeta and Bargamma varieties. Overseed: We mechanically overseed with HGT in the spring and use RPR for divot mix throughout the football season as necessary. Drainage: Underground drainage tiles, Underground drainage tiles, runs east to west, 20 feet apart. runs east to west, 20 feet apart. The Field of the Year Awards program is made possible by the support of sponsors Barenbrug USA, Carolina Green Corp., Ewing, Hunter Industries, and World Class Athletic Services. FIELD OF THE YEAR www.stma.org September 2016 | SportsTurf 43

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