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I Volunteered for Field Maintenance - Now What?
By:  Jim Warren
Updated:  04/07/2010 at 10:04 AM
TSC reserves approximately twenty local fields to support the intramural and travel soccer programs.  Each of these fields need to be lined with spray paint to specific dimensions (which varies based upon the size of the field for each age group) prior to the beginning of the season.  In addition, each field needs to be re-lined periodically (every 2 weeks or so, depending on the weather).  In order to ensure that this important work is done timely and efficiently, we rely on volunteers to assist with the initial and periodic field-lining duties.  In fact, without the assistance of TSC volunteers it would be impossible to keep all the fields painted with adequately clear lines throughout the season.  Volunteer duties for field lining include measuring, staking, stringing, and running the paint sprayers.  With 4-8 volunteers a single field can be staked, strung, and lined within 30-60 minutes.  Pre-season lining sessions are scheduled for 2 hours per session, and in previous years we've had enough volunteers so that one person needs not stay for more than a couple hours at a time.  In-season field lining is scheduled periodically on a site-by-site basis, which can typically be done within an hour  per site.
 
 

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