Tarps that cover the whole IF
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Pacific NW- Yes a couple area HS's use them....practice, prep field and then tarp if it's going to rain. Works out pretty well.....unless it's left off and then rains over the weekend.
Several of the colleges in our areas tarp their infield all winter. They peel it back on dry days, practice and then put it back. It allows them to get games in when the field would have been saturated otherwise.
Ultimately artificial turf seems to be the way larger school districts, or new schools being built, are going. Especially at the HS level where the fields may be multi use fields. Our HS fences come down and the outfield becomes part of the soccer field for fall.
Several of the colleges in our areas tarp their infield all winter. They peel it back on dry days, practice and then put it back. It allows them to get games in when the field would have been saturated otherwise.
Ultimately artificial turf seems to be the way larger school districts, or new schools being built, are going. Especially at the HS level where the fields may be multi use fields. Our HS fences come down and the outfield becomes part of the soccer field for fall.
would love to see our rec league do this, but my fear is that it is too much for just the coaches to handle, and if you start having players assist, potentially huge liability issue (I just picture in my mind the situation in CO a few years ago where Phils had to go help/rescue the ground crew as they tried to cover field, wind was gonna take some of them if they had managed to hang on to tarp)
I had one when I was in the mid-west. The girls hated those late afternoon/evening phone calls for tarp duty... lol
It saved us so many games, though. You have to be careful not to burn up the grass, leaving it on too long. And yes, you can soak your outfield, but we would squeegee the majority of the water off into foul ground before pulling the tarp. You definitely need a lot of people for it.
It saved us so many games, though. You have to be careful not to burn up the grass, leaving it on too long. And yes, you can soak your outfield, but we would squeegee the majority of the water off into foul ground before pulling the tarp. You definitely need a lot of people for it.
