Pioneer Athletics

In addition to our Ultra-Friendly paints, here are a few other “green” aspects of Pioneer products.

Our aerosol cans are recyclable
Our plastic pails are recyclable
The Brite Stripe UF pail is made up of 25% post-consumer content
The StarLine container is recyclable

Our buckets are high density polyethylene (#2) plastic and are recyclable through most curbside recycling programs.
The StarLine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My favorite part of this job is hearing from our customers – what they like, what they don’t like and what could be better.

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit with a bunch of coaches in North Carolina at the North Carolina Coaches Clinic. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of coaches that raved [...]

We are in the busiest part of our year right now! Orders are coming in fast and furious and products are shipping out the door as quickly as ever. Our custom color group is doing an amazing job keeping up with the wide variety of colors in many different products. Our paint production crew has [...]