Uvalde, TX — Three years after a devastating tragedy that claimed the lives of 19 students and 2 teachers, Uvalde has taken an important step forward with the opening of Legacy Elementary School. A ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 10th marked a moment of both remembrance and renewal for the community. “The path to this ribbon-cutting…
Remember when NFL athletes from the 1970s looked like modern-day gladiators, wearing massive shoulder pads, neck rolls, and thick hip and thigh pads? It was all worn to protect the athlete from impacts from player collisions and landing on hard playing surfaces. Fast forward to today, where athletes are stronger, faster, and more powerful than…
In early March of 2022, Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida became Brock USA’s second BrockFILL playing surface to receive its FIFA Quality Pro Field Certificate. Receiving this accreditation has massive implications for this state-of-the-art stadium as well as the city of Orlando. Camping World Stadium will host a friendly between the Mexican National Soccer…
The Ed DeFore Sports Complex, used by 12 Georgia High Schools, is getting a big upgrade going into the new year. The old muddy field is being replaced with an artificial turf featuring Brock PowerBase/YSR. This investment helps the school better instill a sense of pride in their student athletes and protect them as they progress in…
Brock USA is celebrating our 20-year anniversary! Looking back over the past two decades we have a lot to be thankful for. When we started with the vision of making sports fields safer for athletes, we were initially met with skepticism and doubt. Infilled artificial turf was a burgeoning technology and we were already saying…
Brock CEO, Dan Sawyer, was featured in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine for his entrepreneurial accomplishments. Brock PowerBase / PRO is also featured in CU’s indoor athletic facility, opened in 2015. “The experience of watching a professional, college or high school football game is hardly different today than 20 years…
Ginger Allen, investigative reporter at CBS/Dallas-Fort Worth, contacted Dan Sawyer, CEO at Brock USA, to help shine some light on the issues facing safety in artificial turf fields. Her team found that out of 63 North Texas high school football teams, only nine of them still played on natural grass fields. That begs the question –…
The American Sports Builders Association, the organization for builders/suppliers of materials for athletic fields, announced its annual Outstanding Facilities of the Year Awards. Winning projects are chosen based on layout, design, site work, drainage, innovation, and several other categories. The winner of the Outstanding Multi-Field Facility of the Year Award was the Shoreline Athletic Facility,…
