Installation of GameDay Grass XPe underway in Haywood County

Base preparation is nearing completion on two new state-of-the-art GameDay Grass XPe fields in Haywood County, North Carolina at Pisgah High School and Tuscola High School. Each field measures nearly 85,000 sf and will be composed of an all-rubber infill.

Turf installation is scheduled to begin in the next couple of weeks and both fields will be ready for the start of high school football season.

The Pisgah Black Bears have a storied football history, winning 5 North Carolina State Championships since the school opened in 1966.

The Tuscola Mountaineers have one North Carolina State Championship, 10 conference championships and have won the 32 Haywood County Championships including last season.

On the web:
Tuscola Football
Pisgah Football

Season 2 of "Sport Science" debuts on FSN

The Emmy Award Winning "Sport Science" debuted its 2nd season on Fox Sports Net. The show, airing Sunday nights at 9pm, deploys motion-capture technology to gauge velocity and aerodynamics to provide a better understanding of how athletes move. That mechanism is complemented by CGI imagery, high-speed cameras and pressure censors to see how the athletes measure up, relative to impact and reaction times.

Featured on "Sport Science" is AstroTurf PureGrass. The non-filled synthetic turf system is utilized in the indoor test facility for football related testing. NFL Superstars such as Jerry Rice, Chad Johnson, Ben Roethlisberger, Matt Leinart and Quentin Jammer have been featured on the show.

On the web:

FSN Sport Science

Traverse City Beach Bums off to a hot start

Playing their first season on a brand new, state-of-the-art GameDay Grass XPe field at Wuerfel Park, the Traverse City Beach Bums of the independent Frontier League have started red hot, going 5-2 the first week of the season. This includes a three game sweep of the Midwest Sliders on their brand new AstroTurf surface.

The surface will be cheaper to maintain and allow for more events to be held at the site, said John Wuerfel, president and CEO of Wuerfel Sports Development.

"We're traditionalists," Wuerfel said. "We love grass, but from a business standpoint this makes sense.

"It's a lot less expensive to maintain, it always looks nice and we can have a lot more activities on the field without having to worry about damaging it.

"This is not the hard AstroTurf of old. This is a state-of-the-art natural looking infill turf."


"It cost us over $100,000 a year to maintain the grass," Wuerfel said. "It was a huge expense for us." It will cost between $5,000-$10,000 a year to maintain the new field, he said.


On the web:
Traverse City Beach Bums Official Website

ODU Sports Complex Installation Underway

Installation is underway on the new GameDay Grass 3D practice fields at Old Dominion University. GeneralSports Venue is currently on-site, finishing base preperation for the installation of two state-of-the-art GameDay Grass 3D practice fields. The same surface will be installed later this year in Foreman Field, the new home of the Old Dominion Monarchs.

View the on-going installation

Old Dominion University has not had a football program since it was still a division of William and Mary. ODU will begin play in 2009.

On February 9, 2007, ODU's Athletic Director Jim Jarrett announced that Bobby Wilder, the associate head football coach at the University of Maine, will be the head football coach at Old Dominion University when the football program begins in the fall of 2009. ODU will be competing as an NCAA Division I-Championship Subdivision member (formerly known as I-AA) in the CAA.

On the web:

ODU Official Football Website

Old Dominion's Foreman Field renovation ahead of schedule, construction company says

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