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Madrid, Spain - EVERGREEN® RADIANT TURF COVERS provide a winning solution for world class football team. Founded in 1902, the success of Spain’s Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is legendary with 36 titles in La Liga, the top men's professional football division in the Spanish football league system.

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Ontario, Canada - Small town gym floor cover request receives big time sports facility protection and service. Huntsville, Tennessee is a town of 1,270 people located about 150 miles east of Nashville and 55 miles north of Knoxville. Like many rural towns in the United States, school gymnasiums are often one of the larger venues that can accommodate community events and activities.

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Lincoln, NE - Lincoln teams up again with COVERMASTER® for the ultimate in baseball field covers. For upwards of 15 years, the Lincoln Saltdogs of the American Association of Professional Baseball have been a customer of COVERMASTER® for all of their sports surface protection needs.

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La Cañada Flintridge, CA - Outdoor arena footings protected from rain and ready for use when riding arena covers removed. Back in 2017, Flintridge Riding Club, in La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles County, California purchased an equestrian arena cover from COVERMASTER® for their large main arena.

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New IceMate™ ice arena floor covering makes multi-purpose event conversion a breeze. Tupelo, Mississippi is known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. It’s also known for the 10,000-seat Cadence Bank Arena, the largest, multi-purpose arena in Mississippi. From public skating to monster truck shows, basketball tournaments, rodeos, and major music artist tours, the arena prides itself on being able to switch from an ice surface event to a dry floor event. When it was time to replace their arena floor covering, they contacted COVERMASTER®.

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San Diego FC practice fields get star treatment with EvergreenTM turf growth blankets! When Mike Kerns, groundskeeper for Major League Soccer’s new expansion team, San Diego Football Club needed turf growth blankets, he came directly to COVERMASTER®. He had firsthand experience with EVERGREEN® RADIANT TURF COVERS, with its specialized silver coating, designed to provide earlier green ups, delay dormancy, increase the turf’s growing season, and produce thicker grass with better color. The blanket’s specialized silver coating radiates additional heat back to the soil with up to 25% more heat retention.

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'Rip City’ gets basketball floor protection for their training facility. Based out of Portland, Oregon, the Trail Blazers are currently the only National Basketball Association (NBA) team in the Pacific Northwest and compete in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. While they play out of the Moda Center (a multipurpose arena that hosts everything from basketball to ice hockey, concerts, and conventions), their training facility is located 20 minutes away in Metro Oregon, off Highway 5, near the Tualatin River.

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COVERMASTER® custom arena seat covers help concentrate attendance areas where needed. A proven way to control seating in your gymnasium, stadium, or in this case, your hockey arena is to strategically use seat covers in specific areas and concentrate fans into the remaining seats. The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio wanted to do just that for Schottenstein Center, home of the Buckeyes men’s and women’s ice hockey and basketball teams. It’s a multipurpose center that also features major entertainment tours throughout the year.

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Baton Rouge, LA - Raising Cane’s River Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana features an 1800-seat performing arts center, a 200,000 square foot Grand Ballroom and Exhibition Hall, and a 10,000 seat arena. COVERMASTER® was called in by the arena to provide a better solution to covering the ice surface for concerts, trade shows, sporting events, and theatre events. When not used for home games with the Baton Rouge Zydeco hockey team of the Federal Prospects Minor Hockey League, the arena hosts a variety of non-ice events from comedy acts to concerts and more.

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Houston, TX - When National Football League’s (NFL) Houston Texans needed turf covers for its practice field, they went straight to the world leader in sports surface protection - COVERMASTER®. Professional groundskeepers know the importance of not just covering a playing field with a tarp. They want something that will not only shield the natural turf from adverse growing conditions, but will also encourage growth, promote deep root development, allow the turf to breathe and retain more natural heat and moisture.

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Las Vegas, NV - The playing field at the new, state-of-the art Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada features a 4-foot deep, 9,500 square foot retractable tray, that is home to a natural grass playing surface. It is moved outside the stadium when the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League are not playing. Moved outside on electric-powered train rails, the grass turf is exposed to natural sunlight and water. Inside, artificial turf can be rolled out on the stadium’s concrete floor for other activities and rolled back up when the natural grass is returned for a Raiders home game.

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Toronto, Ontario - After 37 years with COVERMASTER®, Larry Moreland is preparing to retire this November, closing a career defined by innovation and milestones in the sports facility industry. His journey began when COVERMASTER® founder Bob Curry invited him to join the sales team, recognizing Larry’s personable nature and love for sports. “Larry has a very technical mind. He’s great at analyzing plans and noting all the requirements,” Bob recalls—skills that proved invaluable throughout Larry’s tenure.

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Houston, TX - Now EVERGREEN® turf covers are used on Dynamo FC’s training field too! Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas is home to the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer , as well as the Houston Dash, of the National Women’s Soccer League. To protect and encourage the growth of their turf grass, EVERGREEN® SPECTRUM turf covers from COVERMASTER® have been used with great success. Its patented coating technology helps refract the sun’s penetrating light into an orange/red light for enhanced turf growth and health.

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San Francisco, CA - COVERMASTER® baseball field tarp saves the day when current baseball field cover needed replacing. The San Francisco Giants of the National League West Division of Major League Baseball were originally the New York Gothams when founded in 1883. Three years later, they were re-named the Giants and in 1958, they moved to San Francisco. Over the years, the Giants have played in the World Series 20 times and their 23 National League pennant wins were just eclipsed this year by the Dodgers. It’s quite a legacy and one that that’s a nod not only to team and management excellence but also to the grounds crew and every staff member that helps bring the game to their fans.

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Pinecrest, FL - PLATINUM EASYROLL™ gym floor carpets are now used at both Gulliver Prep campuses. Back in 2021, Gulliver Preparatory School’s Marian C. Krutulis PK to 8 campus in Coral Gables, Florida broke ground on a new 60,000 square-foot facility called: Center for Student Life. On completion, it featured a performing arts and assembly space, next generation classrooms and labs, a dining hall, meeting place, and yes, a gymnasium. To protect the gym floor from multi-use, non-athletic events, Gulliver ordered PLATINUM EASYROLL™ GYM CARPET ROLLS from COVERMASTER®.

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Middletown, NY - Located in the Hudson Valley region near the Wallkill River and the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains, Middleton is the largest city in Orange County, New York state. The Enlarged City School District of Middleton has four elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. Adjacent to Middleton High School, Faller Field athletic facility also serves as an outdoor graduation site as well as for other non-athletic events and activities.

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Pittsburgh, PA - The new Highmark Center for Health, Wellness and Athletics is now open at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and with that, a 16,000 square foot gymnasium for their NCAA Division III basketball and volleyball teams. Long before the opening, the need for gym floor protection during non-athletic events was noted. COVERMASTER® gym floor cover was used at the prestigious university in 1997 and then, years later in 2013 when a replacement was required.

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Warrensburg, MO - Located in Warrensburg, Missouri, the University of Central Missouri (UCM) offers 150 academic programs in a wide range of studies from cyber defense to performing arts, government and international studies, business studies, education, and health, science, and technology. Athletics include Mules (men) football, baseball, basketball, and wresting and Jennies (women) softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. Teams compete in NCAA Division II.

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Indianapolis, IN - Located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, the 12,300-seat Victory Field ballpark is the home of the Indianapolis Indians, the triple A affiliate of the Pittsburg Pirates. Over the years, many renovations and amenities have been added to the minor league ballpark but none quite a daunting as prior to the current season. Mid-America Sports Construction (a division of Mid-America Golf and Landscape) was contracted to install new irrigation and drainage and then, replace all of the turf inside the ballpark over the winter months.

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Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville, Florida is the home of the National Football League (NFL) Jaguars. When turf covers were needed for Jacksonville’s EverBank Stadium as well as the Jaguars’ practice facility, COVERMASTER® was called in for two very specific issues. Both centered around the Bermuda grass turf. While especially suited for the heat of Florida’s sunny weather, the very fine grass is known for its aggressive growth with one caveat: soil temperature must be above 65 F (18 C).

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