Just a little something to go with the best helmet in college football for the final game
@AztecFB
.
Appreciate the crew for bringing this idea to life.
#teamwork
Today I lost my best friend of the past 12 years. Cancer sucks, it took him way too soon. He never got a chance to enjoy a real day at work here at the stadium and be by my side. I will miss him every day. I love ya pup!
I can’t thank the crew enough for pulling this all off all year!
8 SDSU Football Games/Practices
8 Rugby Games
9 Lacrosse Games (1 indoor lax)
1 HS Football Game
5 International Soccer Matches
2 US Soccer Matches
2 College Soccer Games
4 Dirt Shows
4 Concerts
15 NWSL Matches
4 Football Games
2 Scrimmages
3 Soccer Games
All in the past 6 weeks. One more game tomorrow before concert load in and then our 3rd playing surface of the year.
Excited for the crew to get a well deserved break and rest.
Yes, the end zones are finally painted…
Tarps off a day early. Double mow and a .50 of rain over the weekend has us ready for 2 games of the Concacaf W Gold Cup semi finals on Wednesday. Starting to see wear from the team’s warm up areas but will fill in nicely one the latitude gets going.
After sod being down for a month it was time to verticut 2x, scalp from .500 down to aerate and topdress 50 tons. Great recovery from Friday to Tuesday.
Here is an awesome aerial shot of Snapdragon Stadium ahead of yesterday's match. I am amazed at the amount of effort the crew puts in every day, enjoying themselves, especially on days like today. We are back at it this morning to prepare for Friday's NWSL Match.
5 days post sod install. Top-dressed with two separate applications of 25 tons each and brushed in. We are going to let it soak up the sunshine this weekend and cover it next week for a few days. 14 days till our first game on the field.
22 hours post kickoff from SDSU. This job has a crazy way of humbling you sometimes.
Bermuda has slowed considerably and we are waiting on the rye to get going. Grow covers all week before the NWSL Championship game in 6days
Crew is tired and I cannot thank them enough.
Crazy proud of this staff today, to be able to get this field fully painted in 8 hrs is appreciated. Never thought I’d say this but tarps down tomorrow AM and FG post down for a Tropical Storm in San Diego.
6 games completed after this evenings matches. New surface is holding up well. Looking forward to adding another 25 tons of sand on Thursday before covers for a few days.
Last day of this installation. Hard to believe this is our 5th field in 18 months since opening the opening of the stadium.This one by far has been the hardest.
7 days till our first game on this field.
Many thanks to everyone involved! The first one for us here at Snapdragon and all those involved made it as seemless as possible even with a few bumps. Even more importantly, THANK YOU to
@paradis_austin
for holding it down when I was with family during this week.
Match Day! A big thank you to all the staff for their hard work in getting the pitch ready for today's New Zealand All Black vs Fiji Rugby Match. Exciting day for San Diego!
From the soccer game last night at 6 PM to football practice at 10 AM, I am always amazed at what this turf team can achieve. I appreciate this staff more than words can express.
Crew got covers off this morning and a spray done. Strings are out and we will paint tomorrow for two soccer games this weekend.
Great job by
@paradis_austin
on handling this resod while I was away.
Final stretch starts soon.We have 3
@AztecFB
football games and 1 HS football championship over the next 4 weeks. The rest was good for both the field and crew.
Maybe we will change up the paint scheme, What do ya think
@SnapdragonStdm
?
7 days after installing sod.
Rain tarps came off this morning after we got an inch of rain overnight.
Now we have 6 games in 6 days before we can take a nice 10 day break & put grow tarps over the field.
Shoutout to the crew for all their hard work to get us to this point.
After heading out at midnight, the crew returned at 6am to keep putting in as much effort as possible for the NWSL game today.Unfortunately, we'll find ourselves doing this again next weekend.
For now, we're powered up with Starbucks, breakfast burritos, and donuts!
14 hours from a soccer pitch to a rugby pitch. I cannot thank the team here enough for the time and dedication it takes to pull these flips on tight schedules happens.
We have a busy weekend ahead of us, with a Wave game tonight at 7 pm, followed by a Legion Rugby match at 7pm tomorrow. Deep time Saturday night followed by dryject at 6 am on Sunday.
It will be a late night early morning with a flip between sports. Crew is ready to go!
12 hours later after an SDSU women’s lacrosse victory to the first ever outdoor box lacrosse game for the San Diego Seals. Loadout begins immediately after box lacrosse for two more lacrosse games Sunday.
Over the past two weeks the field has gotten a .5# of N and two different topdressing applications. First one at 25 tons second one got 50 tons. First foliar app is scheduled for late next week.
We are back!!
Huge THANK YOU to all the crews involved with turning this place around in 3 days. It takes a lot of planning and compromise from all.
Now onto getting this thing ready for a game in 11 days!
Getting the field ready for our rugby game tomorrow bright and early.
Don't have to worry about using string lines since we applied a wetting agent and watered it in overnight. Just let the robot do its thing and follow its path.
This week we will stick with our electric
@DennisMowers
for pre game mow. Field has been holding really well to our cool temps here in SD. Soil temps were around 55 this morning. Looking forward to
@AztecFB
returning home today.
Someone asked me how the field was doing after hosting a weekend of football and rugby games in less than 24 hours, so I decided to take a quick video for them. The field between our hashes held up pretty well! We were actually quite impressed by how it managed the use this week.
4 soccer games
1 football game
1 Rugby game
1 overnight conversion from soccer to rugby.
All this in the next two weeks before a small break. Crew has been great adjusting to the weather and constantly working on wear areas along sidelines.
Looking forward to our break.
Post football game and the crew has field goals out, field mowed, and lines and numbers being removed. These keep crushing with the event flip.
Still taking applications for anyone who wants to join our turf curling team!
Day 6 is complete.
Graded at a 0%. I appreciate all the work
@BarkshireLaser
crew have done this week to get us prepped.
So, now we wait on Mother Nature to give us the go ahead when to begin sod. Forecasted 2-3 inches of rain moving in tonight
TY
@RobScrib5150
for the photo
24 hours since the show and 20 hours till first truck of sod arrives.
Concert was loaded out and off the field at noon and flooring crew finished around 3pm.
The pitch is ready for tomorrow's MLR final, marking another championship hosted at Snapdragon.
We have a busy week ahead, as over the next seven days, we will host a rugby match, a soccer game, and a football game.
5 more days for this field and one last over night conversion from soccer to rugby this weekend.
6 rugby games
7 soccer games
1 football game
4 outdoor lacrosse games
1 NLL Lacrosse game
3 on field covering events
2 concerts
Another great turnaround for the crew, 7 days post SDSU football game to soccer.
Grinding to the end here.
Onto SDSU and NWSL game next weekend, followed by NWSL Championship on November 11th.
Field played incredibly well over the past 2 games.
So nothing else to do than beat it up! 3/16 verticut, broom drag & 2x cross mow.
Two weeks till football season.
Broom, mow, cal Nitrate, and grow covers. Getting it prepped for USWNT on Sunday.
Our remaining 7 weeks will be:
2 soccer trainings
3 soccer games
3 football games
Yesterday we played an MLS Leagues Cup game. Today and SDSU Fall Scrimmage.
Hats off to this crew for managing the transition. We'll do it once more next week and two additional times in two weeks.
Schedule is the schedule, we just do the work.
Pulled grow covers back today to mow, spray and get a few paint lines down before covering the field again. Nice seeing Latitude roots pushing after 7 days on the ground even though May grey is keeping sunlight minimal. Still working in our 50 tons of topdressing sand.