Utah Valley Varsity installs new Shaw Sports Turf field

The fields, made from Shaw Sports Turf’s PowerBlade HP system, comprise 412,000 square feet of playing space on the site of the old Geneva Steel Factory. The 1,750 acre site is currently under development, with 100 acres being devoted to academic buildings and intramural fields for the university, with the option to add another 150 acres.

The fields, though, are a focal point for the area, sitting at the foot of Mount Timpanogos. The Geneva Fields will also be a focal point for the more than 33,000 students at Utah’s largest state university.

According to Jen Berrett, the Intramurals Coordinator with the school, even though the fields have just been completed, nearly 1,000 students are already utilizing them.

In fact, according to a study in Recreational Sports Journal, 31% of college students said that intramural sports were an important factor in deciding to attend a school.

Intramural sports have now been on college campuses in the United States for 100 years and continue to grow as an integral part of university life, according to the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). Approximately 5.3 million students who attend schools which offer recreational sports programs, participate or use the facilities offered by these programs. That represents 75% of the total number of students at school’s offering recreational sports.

Hogan & Associates of Centerville served as general contractor on the project, with Academy Sports Turf of Englewood, Colorado acted as sub-contractor.

Shaw Sports Turf is a division of Shaw Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Shaw Industries is the world’s largest carpet manufacturer and a full flooring provider to the residential and commercial markets. Shaw supplies carpet, rugs, hardwood, laminate, resilient, and tile/stone flooring products, as well as synthetic turf.

Shaw Sports Turf has over 1,500 successful installations, including an impressive list of high-profile field installations such as the Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Vanderbilt University, and more.

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