Pioneer Athletics

Pioneer Athletics unveiled three new products today at the Sports Turf Managers Association Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. Making their debut to the crowd of athletic field management professionals were StarLine Ultra-Friendly paint, the Brite Striper 3000 SP, a self-propelled airless striping machine, and the Field Crewzer, Pioneer’s new synthetic turf litter and [...]

Pioneer Athletics will be at the Sports Turf Manager’s Association Annual Conference and Exhibition on January 12-16, 2010. If you will be at the convention, please stop by and see us in booth #319. We have three exciting new products that will be introduced at the show in addition to some of our other traditional [...]

Pioneer field marking paint will be featured on nine athletic fields, including the BCS Championship game.
College Football’s bowl season starts this Saturday and runs through the BCS National Championship Game on January 7, 2010. Pioneer Athletics is proud to be the official supplier of paints, stripers, stencils and groomers for nine of these nationally televised [...]

Congratulations to J.W. Sadler Field in Westerville, Ohio.
The baseball home of Westerville South High School was featured in Sports Turf magazine’s October 2009 issue for winning the 2008 Sports Turf Managers Association Parks/School Baseball Field of the Year.
Westerville South uses a Pioneer Athletics field striping machine at J.W. Sadler Field.
To read the feature article on [...]

The sight of a new synthetic turf field after installation is very exciting. It provides a new look for your facility and generates excitement for the athletes who will be competing. But, during the first month or two after installation, it’s important that you are aware that paint may not be able to adhere to [...]

Annual maintenance on natural turf grass is a must if you want to have a robust field.
In cool-season turf grass zones, October and November provide an ideal time for turf establishment, renovation, overseeding, coring, and liming. In warm-season turf grass zones, this time of year is ideal for overseeding and liming.
Additionally, now is [...]

Less Than 24 Hour Turnaround is No Problem for Crew
In 2009, the field crew at the Louisiana Superdome will have to convert the markings on their synthetic turf field on eighteen different occasions in order to host the New Orleans Saints, Tulane Wave, Allstate Sugar Bowl, R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, State Farm Bayou Classic, [...]

Our experience and our tests have shown that the issue is not so much that humidity affects the adhesion of paint to grass as that humidity strongly affects the drying and curing process. In general, paint may be dry to the touch in a relatively short period of time. This could be 5 minutes or [...]

Fortunately, the 2009 busy-season was as busy as ever. But as football season gets underway, and the days get shorter, we sometimes get a moment to catch our breath; products aren’t flying out the door quite as fast; our custom-color department is keeping up.
Now, we are able to evaluate the results of our tests on [...]

What time of day or type of weather is best to maintain a synthetic turf field?
Of course, there are many different types of fields from a variety of companies and each has its own recommendations as to how to maintain a field. But there are a variety of techniques that will help give you [...]