Digital Focus March: Sports Fields

Mar 1, 2023

Digital Focus Slide March 23

As the spring sports season approaches and we head into the warmer months, AB takes a look into our archive to bring you our past coverage on athletic fields.

Regardless of type of field or the sports played on it, you’ll find helpful tips, new trends or time-tested truisms for maintaining and programming your fields in this month’s focus feature.

Check out the experience below:

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Hurricane Helene Submerges HS Football Stadiums in Western North Carolina

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What’s a Typical Timeline for a Grass-to-Turf Conversion?

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High School AD Asks Border Collie Owners to Help Control Goose Problem

Hurricane Helene Submerges HS Football Stadiums in Western North Carolina

The stadium is only 25 feet from the Pigeon River. After the river flooded this weekend, it quickly submerged the stadium, with waters reaching all the way to the top of the scoreboard and within the top five rows of the bleachers.

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What’s a Typical Timeline for a Grass-to-Turf Conversion?

AB asked experts from the turf industry to walk us through the actual steps of conversion from grass to turf, which unfold fairly predictably once funding is secured.

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Michigan Stadium Transforms Game Experience

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High School AD Asks Border Collie Owners to Help Control Goose Problem

Last month, AB Today reported on San Diego State University's plan to control geese infiltration on its football fields using plastic coyotes. Now, a high school athletic director in Massachusetts is taking a more animated approach.

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Watch: Lowell High School's Renovated Athletic Complex

Officials at Lowell (Ind.) High School hope the school's new athletics complex will bring its facilities up to par with others in the conference. The extensive renovation aims to create a welcoming, accessible, and community-friendly space for...

Parks Department Responds to Concerns About Delays in $45M Sports Complex

The City of Laredo (Texas) Parks Department has responded to concerns about the forthcoming $45 million Buena Vista Sports Complex, which broke ground in 2022 and was slated to be completed by July of this year but has seen setbacks...

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Massive Sinkhole Opens Beneath Turf Soccer Field in Illinois Park

Surveillance video captured the moment Wednesday morning when a giant sinkhole swallowed a new turf soccer field in Alton, Ill.

Seahawks Donate Turf for HS Stadium with a Focus on Flag Football

The Seattle Seahawks along with the NFL’s Foundation Grassroots Program granted $250,000 to the Highline Public Schools for new synthetic turf in the district’s shared stadium.

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Three Light Poles Deemed Susceptible to Wind Damage Removed From Fields

Three wooden light poles are being removed from Jim Barnett Park in Winchester, Va., home to facilities serving Shenandoah University’s baseball and softball programs, following the recommendation of an external lighting inspection firm.

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Watch: Take a Tour Through — and Above — College's Athletics Facilities

Saint Anselm is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Goffstown, N.H. with 23 men's and women's varsity sports...

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Turf Care Professionals Entering the Age of Autonomous Mowers, Painters

Once players milling about Greater Nevada Field during batting practice notice the robot moving this way and that across the right-field spectator berm, the questions buzz in on head groundskeeper Leah Withrow like a two-seam fastball.

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High School Stadium Lights Approval Causes Rift in Community

Following more than three hours of public debate, the Sacramento (Calif.) County Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a proposal to install stadium lights at Jesuit High School in Carmichael.

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