FIELD OF THE YEAR SCHOOLS AND PARKS FOOTBALL
to our normal two-man crew , and ramping up our field work to start preparing for all the summer activities that took place on Walsh Field .
SFM : Beyond COVD-19-related challenges , were there other challenges you faced with Walsh Field this past year , and , if so , how did you approach those challenges ?
find any window we could to do our field maintenance work . Whether we were staying late during the week or coming in on the weekends , our crew was motivated to get it done .
SFM : With back-to-back FOY wins , where do you go from here ? What ’ s next ?
PRINCE : Yes , 2020 was a first for a lot of things out at Walsh Field . We hosted small NFL group workouts for six weeks during the summer , had Pace ’ s graduation at the stadium , and began hosting girl ’ s flag football games in late fall / early winter . With us not really having an offseason during the summer , and very little time between winter and spring sports , we had to
PRINCE : I think with our crew being fortunate enough to win this award in back-to-back years , our schedule has been flooded with external events and extra games . So the only thing for us to do is continue grinding out the best , safest product we can for these student-athletes , and prove our natural fields can handle whatever our administrators throw at them . SFM
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