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by Shelby Becker
The University of Kentucky recently worked with Vescio’s SportsFields to isntall Act Global turf as the surface for their new outdoor soccer intramural fields.
Intramural sports on college campuses are an awesome way for students to get involved with their peer community and promote their own health and happiness. The University of Kentucky offers a variety of tournaments, clinics, and leagues to attract students of all skill levels who wish to get involved in sports. The school strives to provide students with top quality resources to aid in a successful college career, including providing top quality turf systems to its intramural leagues. For players and athletes of all skill levels, the quality of the surface they are playing on can have a significant impact on their safety and performance. Act Global artificial turf is engineered with player safety as the number one consideration. The University of Kentucky has taken excellent measures not only to promote the power of playing sports but also in keeping students safe while they do so.
Our technical director explains how our synthetic turf systems are designed to maximize player’s safety and comfort to soccer players:
- Our surfaces are fast under the foot and provide sufficient firmness to limit fatigue injuries to the lower extremities of the player’s body. In other words, they provide the right balance between Shock Absorption (the surface absorbs lots of energy during the impact thus provides safety) and Deformation (the surface does not deform too much during the impact thus provides springiness and performance). To give a bad example: a beach of sand will absorb lots of energy when you run on it but deforms too much under the feet thus creates feet instability and risks of fatigue injuries.
- Our surface is designed to provide proper Rotational Resistance (traction) to ensure foot stability and to enable quick release of the shoes during rotation and traction movements. If Rotational Resistance is too high, you have a risk of twisting knees, ankles. If it is too low, a risk of slippery over the surface.
- Our surface maintains consistent and uniform ball-to-surface interactions (ball bounce, ball roll) for a better ball control. Soccer players want to have consistent ball-to-surface interactions wherever they play, from pitch to pitch, in order to adapt quickly to new conditions of play. Our rubber and sand mix is adjusted to absorb sufficient energy at the impact of the ball in order to get a bounce that is not too high. Our Bonar yarn is a blend of winged diamond and diamond shape yarns, the 1rst one provides softness to the skin for comfort and the second is stiff to ensure the ball roll is sufficiently slowed down and the ball is controlled properly during the dribbles.
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
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Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Bronxville Union Free School District just upgraded their multipurpose field to Act Global synthetic turf.
The square-mile suburb outside of New York City is nationally recognized for excellence in academics and extracurricular activities. Not only was the high school ranked #5 overall in the country by Newsweek, but the town is known to attract successful artists looking to settle down.
The new artificial grass field will be a center point of athletics for the 1600 students enrolled at the high school. The synthetic turf system will be utilized by both the football teams, the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, and the soccer teams. The extensively engineered surface is unmatched in durability, meaning that each of the Broncos teams will have a consistent playing surface. The proven performance of our turf keeps athletes of all sports protected from the most common injuries related to fatigue, including sprains, fractures, bruises and abrasions, and internal organs and concussions.
Good luck to the Bronxville Broncos on the 2017-2018 sports season!
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Marin Catholic’s Bishop Daly field is a multipurpose synthetic turf facility in Kentfield, California. For 15 years leading up to this past August, the high school student-athletes were facing safety concerns and hazards revolving around the previous natural grass and bordering vegetation.
Our awesome partners at The KYA Group arranged this complete field renovation for the Wildcats. The most noticeable part of this install is the baseball diamond and outfield crafted from Act Global artificial grass. Our baseball turf is not only proven to be the most durable fibrillated yarn product on the market, but it is also benchmarked against top natural grass training facilities, including the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. Because of the extensive research and development that has gone into our baseball turf, the Wildcats have a consistent surface for peak player performance.
The unrivaled durability of our yarn is essential to providing an excellent multi-play experience. Bishop Daly field is utilized by the field hockey team in the fall and the baseball team in the spring. While the baseball team now has an unparalleled playing surface, the field hockey team too now has a professional hockey system.
Thank you to our partners at The KYA group, and good luck to each of the Wildcat teams this year in sports!
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Photo Source: Wiki Commons
The Saturday morning game between the Army Black Knights and Tulane’s Green Wave was held at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both teams were hoping to recover from losing the previous weekend to more talented teams. In the end, predictions placing Tulane on top proved to be correct when the Green wave beat out the Black Nights 21-17.
The game was close and Army held the lead for most of the second, third, and fourth quarter. In the last 30 seconds, Tulane scored a touchdown that put them at a four-point lead over the Black Nights. With such a small amount of time left on the clock, Army did not have time to recover.
Yulman Stadium had its grand opening in 2014 with a home opener for Tulane against former rival Georgia Tech. The game sold out all 30,000 seats. Previous to the opening of Yulman, Tulane shared a home stadium with the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. When choosing the new synthetic turf surface for Yulman, Tulane chose to keep the same trusted surface that was used installed in the Superdome. This line of artificial grass is used by collegiate and professional teams across the country and has hosted teams for several Super Bowls. Act Global is proud to produce such a tested and respected line of synthetic turf systems. With more than 100 individual laboratory tests and benchmarks against top natural grass systems, Act Global s synthetic turf is a proven surface for safety, durability, and performance.
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Native American day is a holiday celebrated in various forms by California, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Nevada. The day is filled with activities surrounded with traditions, culture, and background of Native Americans.
One piece of Native American culture lives on today through the sport of lacrosse. A version of the sport is documented back to 17th century America by immigrants settling the Northeast. The games were major events that took place over several days and were contests played by tribal warriors for training, recreation and religious reasons. The Native American game of lacrosse could involve anywhere from 100-1,000 players of opposing tribes and play could stretch across miles of land
The start of the game was signaled by tossing the ball, often made of wood, stuffed deerskin, or skulls of small animals, up in the air where players would race to catch it. The ball could not touch a players hand and there was no out-of-bounds on these open fields. The goal was to score on one of three stick poles, which were marked at different heights to signify one point earned, two points earned, or three points earned.
Today lacrosse has transformed into an international sport that is played at the grade school, intercollegiate, and professional level. The vast fields ridden with natural features such as rocks and trees have been replaced with even surfaces with standard dimensions.
Our field feature this week is a lacrosse facility in California. Dominican University of California men’s lacrosse is a Division II team in the Pacific West Coast conference. The team was a founding member of the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, the first association west of the Mississippi River. Dominican won the WILA in 2013 and 2014 before transitioning to the MCLA for the 2015 season.
Our lacrosse artificial turf is engineered and tested to provide a superior playing surface by offering greater speed and precision. This surface continues to be an exceptional playing field for the Penguins.
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
Intramural sports on college campuses are an awesome way for students to get involved with their peer community and promote their own health and happiness. The University of Kentucky offers a variety of tournaments, clinics, and leagues to attract students of all skill levels who wish to get involved in sports. The school strives to provide students with top quality resources to aid in a successful college career, including providing top quality turf systems to its intramural leagues. For players and athletes of all skill levels, the quality of the surface they are playing on can have a significant impact on their safety and performance. Act Global artificial turf is engineered with player safety as the number one consideration. The University of Kentucky has taken excellent measures not only to promote the power of playing sports but also in keeping students safe while they do so.
Native American day is a holiday celebrated in various forms by California, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Nevada. The day is filled with activities surrounded with traditions, culture, and background of Native Americans.
Today lacrosse has transformed into an international sport that is played at the grade school, intercollegiate, and professional level. The vast fields ridden with natural features such as rocks and trees have been replaced with even surfaces with standard dimensions.