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Sporturf™ Partners With Major Arena Soccer League

Sporturf™ and Sporturf International are pleased to announce our newest partnership with the Major Arena Soccer League becoming  the official turf provider of the MASL. “We are thrilled to provide the MASL with most advanced indoor artificial turf system available. The indoor product FastGrass™ allows athletes to showcase their skills without worrying about the surface they are playing on” said Kevin Barker Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

The MASL wanted a quality product and brand that they knew would be durable and high quality, which is why they chose Sporturf™ and Sporturf International as their official provider. In fact, the MASL includes many fields that already have Sporturf™ FastGrass™ product on it, Including Milwaukee Wave, San Diego Sockers,  Ontario Fury, Mississauga MetroStars, Upcoming: Kansas City Comets, and Dallas Sidekicks.

According to Joshua Schaub, MASL Commissioner, “As the highest level of arena soccer in the world, the playing surface is vitally important to the very nature of our game. As the MASL continues to grow, we are excited to have Sporturf as our preferred partner.”

Sporturf International President agreed stating, “I’m very excited that Sporturf International has been selected as the official Turf supplier for the Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) and that we are able to continue producing and installing great fields for the league’s teams and its subsidiaries. We are very much looking forward to a long and lasting partnership and we wish the league long lasting and continued success.”

The 2017-2018 MASL season marks the second for Joshua Schaub as Commissioner. Prior to his arrival to the MASL, Mr. Schaub was a minor league baseball team owner/CEO, a co-founder of Da Beauty League, an adjunct law school professor (sports law), and an Associate Scout for the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Major Arena Soccer League represents the highest level of professional arena soccer in the world. The MASL features teams across North America, with teams playing coast-to-coast in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The MASL is currently incorporated as a 501(c)6 not for profit corporation formed to promote the business and sport of arena soccer.

About Controlled Products and Sporturf™:

Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Controlled Products (www.cpturf.com) produces the highest quality synthetic turf in the industry for every possible application. Sustainability, innovation, research, the ability to customize deliverables and the use of advanced, state-of-the art technology are key priorities for the organization. Established in 1989, Controlled Products is an ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 company. As a founding member of the Synthetic Turf Council (STC), and a STC Certified Manufacturer/Supplier, their expertise is unmatched in the industry. Their synthetic turf products are currently in use in thousands of athletic fields, playgrounds, landscape projects, golf courses and indoor sport facilities throughout the world.

 

Sporturf™ is leading the way in the synthetic turf industry with Game Ready, an entirely new product line up that allows owners, coaches and players to focus  on the training, speed of the game and safety, all the things that matter. Game Ready is a no-nonsense product that was developed with all the performance characteristics players, coaches and owners demand. Game Ready is designed to provide facilities a premium and hassle free solution.  The product installs in days and has no infill requirements making the product sand and rubber free.

 

Controlled Products is the parent company of Sporturf™  (www.sporturf.com) which supplies large athletic facility customers and sells and installs athletic fields through preferred partners;  Synthetic Turf International™ (www.synthetic-turf.com),  whose network of distributors installs synthetic turf for golf, landscape, playground, pet turf and indoor sporting facilities;  GrassTex™ (www.grass-tex.com), which distributes products through retailers, carpet stores and rock yards; Grass Turf Mills (www.grassturfmills.com), manufacturer of private label brands for dealers and resellers and Aqua-Fab, designer of custom logos and images for synthetic turf projects. To learn more, visit www.cpturf.com, call (800) 562-4492 or contact the company at Controlled Products, LLC, 200 Howell Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30721

Visit Sporturf™ at the Athletic Business Show in New Orleans November 7-10

 Sporturf™ is located at booth 1919! Stop by and meet Matt Riggs, Business Director this week at the show. Discover What's Possible For You at AB Show 2018 Quality and quantity — AB Show brings both together with 2,700+ facility and program managers from around the world. These decision-makers come to AB Show every year to learn new solutions from industry leaders, find new products and services and build community. Because we know the unique challenges you face everyday, we...
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Worldwide Turf Canada Installs Their First Project in Manitoba

Recently Sporturf™ dealer Worldwide Turf Canada installed their very first project in Manitoba. Steve Halbert and his team installed the project at the Gateway Recreation Centre in Winnipeg, MB. The center consists of two year-round indoor skating rinks, two outdoor hockey rinks, one indoor soccer pitch, four mini soccer fields, three regulation soccer fields, seven ball diamonds, and two outdoor asphalt hockey pens. The Gateway Centre is a true one-stop-shop for the ultimate sports fanatic. When they decided to update...
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Hartfield Academy

Product: Fielder’s Choice/ TrueGrass Location: Flowood, MS Dealer: EnviroTurf Hartfield Academy is fully accredited by both the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS), the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) and the Southern Association of independent Schools (SAIS). Hartfield needed a baseball field that was a strong as their values, a field that they could rely on, which is why they chose EnviroTurf and Sporturf™. Jim Bateman of EnviroTurf has been in...
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Sporturf Dealer Worldwide Turf Canda Dominates with FIFA Field in Aurora

Building upon the theme of sport tourism and sport development, the Town of Aurora now has its first FIFA Certified artificial turf soccer pitch at Stewart Burnett Park completed this fall, by Worldwide Turf Inc, from Barrie, ON.   Contributing to the town’s plan to become “Canada’s most active community, it will also facilitate the needs of the soccer community as well as the Aurora FC Semi-Professional league. The 84,000 sq ft soccer pitch was manufactured at the Sporturf facility in...
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Sporturf Grows Again with Northwestern Regional Manager

We are continuing to grow rapidly!  We just added Broc Johnson as our newest team member. Broc is based out of Washington and attended Arizona State University and graduated with a degree in Communication. After graduation, Broc worked at a local golf course for about a year before he moved back to Washington to accept a job with Shaw Industries in the Northwest as Territory Manager. In this position Broc covered the Northwest area of the US. As Northwestern Regional...
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Hot Spring Chooses Sporturf

Sometimes we get a chance to get a little bit more information about an install and the motivation behind it. We spoke with our dealer Craig Shonk of Midwest Synthetic Turf Professionals about his recent install in Hot Springs to learn more about the project and get some feedback from the customers. The project was as follows: Product Installed-PowerHouse 46oz Size of Installation-81,000 SF Location-Hot Springs, AR Difficulties/obstacles overcome-15” of rain during project work Why did the turf need to...
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SCG Fields Installs Multipurpose Soccer and Football Field in North Miami

Recently SCG Fields, LLC worked with North Miami Athletics to install a Sporturf™ multipurpose soccer and football field in Miami, Florida.  Officials from North Miami Athletics worked the SCG and Sporturf team to choose a color for the coaches’ boxes that would very closely match the newly resurfaced track. The turf system that was selected consisted of Sporturf™ GameChanger paired with an alternative infill called Envirofill from US Greentech and a ProPlay shock pad from Schmitz Foam Products.  The entire...
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Grants Pass All-Sports Park Soccer Field

Sporturf™ dealer Dale Collett of Synthetic Turf Consulting installed this soccer field for Grants Pass High School in Grants Pass, OR in 2017.  Dale and his crew utilized over 100,000 square feet of PowerHouse synthetic turf to complete this project, including prefabricated lines. In the United States, Soccer is one of the most rapidly growing sports and around the world it is by far the most popular sport surpassing basketball and football. This is where the need for synthetic turf...
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Introducing Lisa Plott as Sporturf™ Lead Generation Coordinator

Sporturf™ is growing again! As of January 2018, our former Lead Generation Coordinator, Demond Moore has moved into the Southeastern Regional Manager position making way for our newest team member Lisa Plott Her past work experience includes 10 years with Mohawk Ind. as a Purchasing Assistant/Buyer, 11 years with J & J Industries as a Customer Service/National Accounts Coordinator and 3 years with Gordon Hospital’s Owasa Family Medicine as a medical office assistant. Lisa joined Sporturf’s parent company, Controlled Products,...
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