FIELD OF THE YEAR SCHOOLS AND PARKS SPORTING GROUNDS hidden secret at first , and people didn ’ t know about it . Then , during COVID , people were looking to get out and walk more . More people found it and were walking their dogs out there , going for runs and walks . It ’ s a great outdoor space for that stuff , but it ’ s a challenge for us . I ’ m trying to mow or make a fertilizer application and people are out walking their dogs . So , we usually try to time it for first thing in the morning before people come out . But it ’ s just something we have to work around .
and then the cross country course . Everything is natural grass , except the stadium football field is synthetic .
SFM : Can you give us a feel for your role at Brownsburg ? Dudley : We ’ re an outside contractor here at the school , and we have a contract to take care of all the athletic fields at the school . We ’ re here full time and we report here every day just like school employees . This is the only site we manage .
There are three of us here as full timers — myself and two others — taking care of the whole property . We have 53 acres that we maintain — mostly athletic fields , but also some common areas inside the fences . The high school has two baseball fields , two softball fields and four soccer fields ; and then there are two middle schools that each have a baseball , softball and two football fields ;
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