Baltimore city in Maryland State is a beautiful place to live in and has been a devoted sports town. However, resident of the city are concern that some sports students will not have a place to play. According to the Baltimore news, high school football team near Baltimore city will be competing on the field of grass and soil that has been there for two years because the project to replace with modern artificial turf is still on hold.
Floyd Stadium that is near to Memphis city in Tennessee states installed a new synthetic turf on the filed this summer. After replacing a grass that had been in place since 2006, the Blue Raiders will take the field for the first time as a whole team on the new turf when preseason practice kicks off starts. Football coach, who was raised in Memphis, spends his daily jog on the new surface in Floyd Stadium.
In El Paso city in Texas rainy seasons and storms could put students at risk for potential injuries and bug bites while playing sports outside. Bugs such as mosquitoes tend to hang around grass fields due to the precipitation rather than fields made of artificial turf. Thus, trainers and coaches will need to be precautions towards any potential injuries.
Detroit Free Press reports that Eastern Michigan's football team will switch their green artificial grass to gray color turf, hoping that it will give the team a fresh outlook for winning. After intense deliberation, the switch to gray Field Turf is part of Detroit coach's broader efforts to change the culture of the team. There is a couple of reasons why sports industry in Detroit city installs artificial grass on their fields. Many coaches know that maintaining sports fields are expensive.
The Leo Brittain Field near Fort Worth in Texas has a fresh new look and is ready for the influx of fans and football players for the first home game. The sports directors decided to renovate their sports field with new artificial grass. Near the Fort Worth city, a new high school playing field has a complete makeover featuring a retaining wall, new artificial turf, and rocks on the berm around the field.
Thanks to $200,000 grand donation to Western Charlotte highs school in North Carolina state, the football stadium will receive their artificial grass to install on their field. The donation will give Charlotte a big dose of self-confidence to improve student academic performance. According to the director of Project LIFT, installing artificial grass will give kids something they can be proud of on the game day.
Mark Znider from Columbus Dispatch is curious about Columbus High school in Ohio. Worthington Christian past years has had great success in athletics. Their sports team has played in the state tournament 12 times, winning championships in 2006, '09 and '11 and finishing second three times. Now the school is ready for renovating their sport field with artificial grass.
Most people in Jacksonville treat their lawn like "dirt." They drench it with pesticides & herbicides - and that is the wrong science. In Jacksonville, the city in a state of Florida, heat is centric to the culture and even though majority of homeowners have grass lawns, they are all thinking replacing it with an artificial turf.
San Francisco voters will get to weigh in on the redevelopment of an aging soccer filed, because the debate whether the city should be streaked from installing lights and artificial turf on Golden Gate Park still active. The city is poised to construct the fields after long debate, but a group of neighbors, environmentalists, and others has been gathering information for the November ballot measure that would allow installation for artificial turf in the park.
The neighbors of Austin city became to know as "Sports Capital of Texas" for ten years and now they are looking to renovate their fields. According to the Austin Community Newspaper, the contractor gave the city four possible projects for upgrading their sports facility. The project recommended as possible game changer consist of an indoor track, natatorium, sand volleyball court and installation of artificial grass on the field.
