Links

last modified 01/03/03 10:24 AM

LINKS

SoccerSpace is devoted to providing you with information about developing soccer fields. On this page, we will list links to useful sites we have found. The sites will provide developers of soccer fields with resources they can use. This page will be a continuing work in progress, so come back from time to time to see what we have discovered. We don't endorse any of these sites or links - but check them out and let us know what you think of them.

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Field Development Initiatives

California Youth Soccer Organization - Fields Foundation

Baldwin Hills Conservancy - coming soon, a link to this very important organization that is managing the project to decide the uses and features of the Baldwin Hills park in the Los Angeles oilfields area.

City of San Carlos - very interesting set of pages and reports about the City's efforts to address athletic field shortages.

Field Equipment

Fold-A-Goal - All kinds of soccer field equipment and supplies, from this Los Angeles-based supplier. Dave Hauptman, its owner, is also the current mayor of Culver City and one of the earliest supporters of inner city youth soccer.

Youth Sports Products - Run by long time AYSO activist Mark Neudorff, offers, as part of its large line of soccer-related products, a range of goals, nets, flags and field paint supplies.

Contractors

Environmental Industries, Inc. and its Valley Crest division

Foundations - School-Community Partnerships

New Schools New Neighborhoods a civic advocacy organization that promotes the idea that in California's urban school districts, new schools should be centers of neighborhoods and neighborhoods and communities should serve as centers of learning. NSBN is a project of the non-profit group Community Partners.

See how it's done in Washington State - visit the Municipal Research & Services Center's page on Intergovernmental Cooperation in Parks and Recreation. Contains sample joint use and other cooperation agreements.

Foundations and Grant Writing - General

There are many resources on the Internet concerning foundations and grant writing. The MetLife Foundation has a particularly well chosen set of links.

The Foundation Center - comprehensive resource on foundations and grant writing

California Community Foundation

United Way

Foundations and Grant Writing - Sports Related

Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles

US Soccer Foundation

Landscape Architects

Landscape Architects On-Line - directory of landscape architects and other resources

Purkiss-Rose-RSI - landscape architects based in Fullerton, California

Sports Lighting

Musco Sports Lighting

Qualite Sports Lighting, Inc.

Field Marking

A page of very useful links provided by Tru Mark Athletic Field Marker.

Turf - Artificial

Artificial turf is not your grandmother's Astroturf. The products listed below are comparable to grass in performance. They cost somewhat more to install than real grass, but are much less extensive to maintain. Fieldturf is a very impressive product. Check out the SprintTurf site for a multi-product artificial v natural grass cost and maintenance comparison.

Fieldturf and Nikebiz

Nova Grass

SprinTurf

FIFA Artificial Turf Site

You can read more about FIFA's take on artificial turf when the President of FIFA visited the Metropolitan Oval in New York in 2001. "This is the future to play football, yours and Europe," he said FIFA, the world governing board for soccer, has confirmed that it favors the development of artificial turf.

Turf - Natural

Crenshaw Turf Farms Texas company with a good website and a lot of tips on grass types, maintenance, watering schedules, although focused on own products.

Marathon Sod Suppliers of sod in Southern California with the glorious URL of sod.com. Interesting comparison charts on different kinds of grass and a lot of information.

PRZ Sports Turf, Inc.

Centre for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education at North Carolina State University

Turf Consultants and Trade Associations

Mark M. Mahady & Associates, Inc. - this is an e-mail link as this consulting firm doesn't have its own website. Here is a Microsoft Word description of the firm (as of 9/22/2002)

Mark M. Mahady, President
531 Country Club Drive
Carmel Valley, CA 93924
Telephone & Fax: (831) 659-5859

Jeffrey L. Bruce & Co - Missouri-based consultant with national reputation. Contact Chuck Dixon at 816-842-8999

Purdue University Turfgrass Program - useful information, including weekly tips and several links to other technical resources on turf grass

Sports Turf Management Association
(Southern-California chapter contact the hotline 888-578-STMA)

Turf Diagnostics & Design Inc. - leading physical evaluation laboratory and agronomic consulting company in the high performance turf industry.

TurfZone contains a state by state directory and links to turfgrass growers, seed companies, turf equipment manufactures, fertilizer, irrigation, and maintenance firms as well as the world's largest database of turf equipment manufacturers.