PROFILE concourse all the way out to the field. The bases are stitched in, so there’ s nothing raised on the field.
We also host 15 soccer teams per night for soccer practice. So we’ re doing a little bit of everything here in our first year. It’ s exciting what we can do and what we’ re going to be doing moving forward.
SFM: What is your role at Sandhills, and what type of crew or staff do you have? Felix: I’ m in charge of pretty much everything on site, but I have no full time help. We have a lot of college students who work four hours a day because they have school. On a given day, I typically have three crew members in the morning who work for about four or five hours and then one person at night who works for about four or five hours. They are responsible for all field flips, transitions and setups. We try to do a lot of our field setups in the morning, but there are times when we’ re going from league to tournament or tournament to league. Some of those tournament nights we are here until midnight, flipping fields, putting up fences, moving mounds, etc. So, we do a lot of work at night unless we know we have an ample amount of time the next day.
We’ re a lot more efficient than what we used to be. This facility was new to everybody, so we are learning every day. All of our processes have only gotten more efficient and more effective. For example, you might be responsible for trash and bathrooms, and then you might do some field work. Everyone is trained to do everything— from field grooming and adding rubber to the mounds to scrubbing toilets.
We try to groom every field at least once in a twoweek period. But some fields just don’ t get a break. For example, we hosted four tournaments in 10 days. You’ re not packing clay, and you’ re not dragging fields, but it’ s just as intense on this level when you have this many games. But it has been awesome.
Our executive director oversees the scheduling, partnerships and business operations. We also have people who handle our human resources, baseball operations and softball operations. Then we have another person who handles the gate, staffing and concessions. As mentioned, I handle all the grounds, buildings, custodial, and any contractors and subcontractors.
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