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FIELD OF THE YEAR 32 SportsTurf | October 2016 www.sportsturfonline.com O F F I C I A L P U B L I C A T I O N O F T H E S P O R T S T U R F M A N A G E R S A S S O C I A T I O N STMA COMPENSATION SURVEY September 2016 SPORTS FIELD AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT www.sportsturfonline.com ALSO INSIDE: How long does paint stay in soil? David Mellor of the Boston Red Sox The politics of turf management Turf pest questions answered ST1609 Cover.indd 1 8/10/16 2:09 PM NORTH AREA ATHLETIC COMPLEX Jeffco Schools Athletics GOLDEN, COLORADO T he winning fi eld is the North Area Athletic Complex (NAAC) in Golden, CO rather than Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood. Here is the information for NAAC that we missed last month: Original construction: 2000 Rootzone: 90% Sand, 10% organic matter from alfalfa Turfgrass variety: Kentucky bluegrass, (Barrari, Full Moon, Barduke, Moonlight, Midnight, Fullback, Hampton and Noble); Perennial Rye (Sox fan, Barbeta, and Barlennium); Annual Rye Overseed: Overseeding is a large part of our maintenance schedule, especially in 2014 with the Colorado School of Mines NCAA DII football schedule. Typically, we use Kentucky bluegrass in the spring, summer and early fall, then once our fall season begins we mainly use ryegrass. The fall of 2014, I was broadcast seeding weekly between the hashes with rye just to try to keep some grass growing out there. Drainage: Four-inch corrugated drainpipe on 20-foot centers that run the length of the fi eld and connect to a main catch basin. Editor's note: In our September issue we blundered big time by mistakenly using some information from another Field of the Year entry that came from Jeffco Schools in Colorado rather than from the winning High School Football entry from that district. The correct information is below; we deeply regret our error and extend apologies and offers of beer-buying to the winners, Sun Roesslein, CSFM, and Christi Clay. Apologies as well to John Sears, stadium manager for Jeffco Stadium, for using parts of his FOY entry in this mistake. Why should the STMA consider your field a winner? The NAAC football fi eld is a 5,000-seat stadium that is home to fi ve area high schools. Those schools play all their home varsity games on this fi eld. Three are 5A, the largest classifi cation in Colorado and the other two are 4A. We host 2-4 games per week, for 10 solid weeks of regular season. There are no bye weeks. We are no strangers to football doubleheaders! A typical week allows us only 3 days to get the stadium cleaned, the fi eld mowed, fertilized and painted before we get ready to host games that weekend. Then we re-clean the stadium, mow and do anything else needed in the 14-acre stadium for the turn- around from Thursday night to Friday night to Saturday games. If any of our schools make the post season, we would also host their home playoff game. For the fall of 2014, we hosted our fi rst ever NCAA team, the Colorado School of Mines. Mines went on to win their 2014 Conference title, and we hosted their fi rst round NCAA playoff game. In order to convert from high school to a college fi eld, Friday night we would repaint the fi eld, add the college hashes and clean the stadium after the high school game, then convert the goal posts on Saturday morning before the game. In addition to our football schedule, we host the Annual Pomona Marching Band Festival.