Te partially resodded field is game ready.
Take-Aways Carrick says, “It would have been a lot easier for me and my staff to go synthetic, but we wanted to do what was safer for the players and we wanted to give them the playing surface that they really wanted. It’s been a long haul. Chad and his crew and those on my staff have really gone above and beyond to make it happen; working overnight and not seeing their families for a day or two. But everyone knew why we were doing it; and everyone was on board with doing it. It has definitely been worth it.”
Carrick adds, “Te main take away is the importance of the communication, both internally within the University sports staff and administration, and the communication with Chad and his staff. We let Chad help us, taking his advice on many things because of the knowledge he has built through both growing the specialty sod and doing the field construction. People in our industry need to trust in the companies they work with and take advantage of the resources available to them. We couldn’t have pulled this off without that.”
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Price added, “UNC was forward thinking and there was a level of trust, with Casey and me and Carolina Green, that we could work together to make it happen. It took both that confidence and forward thinking for UNC to make the decision to stay with natural grass. It probably would have been easier to go synthetic, but the coaches and trainers wanted to keep a natural grass field and Casey and his staff wanted to make that work for them. In the end, they all wanted to keep the natural grass.”
Tat the results provided the best possible playing surface was further confirmed as Kenan Memorial Stadium at UNC and Casey Carrick, CSFM, and his staff earned STMA’s 2018 College and University Football Field of the Year honors.
Suz Trusty is co-editor of Turf News. TPI Turf News January/February 20 b2019
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