The Motz Group is a full service athletic field design, consulting and construction company. We specialize in synthetic and natural turf systems for professional, collegiate and high school sports teams in addition to other recreational outlets. Welcome to our blog...we hope you find it interesting and informative!

Thursday, September 30, 2010

How Sweet It Is! Piqua High School Complete!

Ed Purk Field at Alexander Stadium has never looked so good!! 
The Piqua High School Varsity Football team is 3 and 2 so far this season and loving every minute played on their brand new 24/7 synthetic turf field built by The Motz Group.  
The Indians are looking forward to finishing up their football season on their new turf against  Trotwood-Madison on 10/1, Troy on 10/8 and Fairborn on 10/29.

Click Here to see pictures of construction and completed field.


For more information contact:
Zach Burns, Director Sales and Marketing
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: 
info@themotzgroup.com

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Post Season Play on Motz's HPG / TSII Turf

If you are a Reds fan, it's time to get excited! For the first time since 1995 The Cincinnati Reds have won the National League Central and are headed to post season play!
With Jay Bruce's bottom of the ninth walk-off home run, the Reds clinched the division title in  dramatic fashion with their win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night! 

This will be the first time the Reds will play a post season schedule in Great American Ball Park which means it's the first time the they'll compete for the title on the field installed by The Motz Group. The Great American Ball Park has an HPG System surfaced with TSII and also an Envirofill amended warning track.  

More about the Reds' Turf Systems
taken from our website at http://www.themotzgroup.com/


High Performance Gravity® Natural Turf System

The HPG® Natural Turf System is our customized field solution designed specifically to meet your site-specific needs and may vary by sport and project. Each field is specifically engineered to fit your performance standards, projected usage patterns, local environmental conditions and budget.

The Motz Group manages the entire project, from concept and design through construction. We create a detailed project plan and specifications to fit your site requirements. At, Motz we stress open communication throughout the process to keep plans on-time and on-budget. Our value-engineered redesigns have helped field owners save hundreds of thousands of dollars while maximizing optimal field performance.

HPG® Advantages
■Meets your project-specific objectives and requirements
■Custom designed and engineered to fit your budget and site conditions
■Maximizes owner/contractor interaction to deliver on-target project results

Synthetic Stabilized Turf® Natural Turf SystemThe Motz Group’s TS-II® product is a patented combination of natural grass growing in a unique stabilizing mat. The combination produces a system that delivers the manageability, playability and flexibility demanded by today’s world-class venues.

TSII® Advantages
■Dramatically increased wear tolerance compared to conventional grass
■Horizontal stability, even on pure sand rootzones
■Decreased devoting, shearing and displacement damage
■Meets the aesthetic and athletic demands of today’s sport field market
■Provides the flexibility to rapidly replace logos and change out worn areas
■Immediate playability upon installation or rotation

Warning Track amended with Envirofill®

Explanation of the use of Envirofill in the warning track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXRMED4JLk

Footage of Envirofill being installed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONbzHMFhmBE

For more information contact:


Zach Burns, Director Sales and Marketing
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: info@themotzgroup.com

GO REDS!!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

THE MOTZ GROUP LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

3607 Church Street, Suite 300 Cincinnati, Ohio 45244
Phone: 513-533-6452 FAX 513-871-5889
www.themotzgroup.com


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

THE MOTZ GROUP LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE

New site delivers clean look with clear messaging.
September 27, 2010, Cincinnati, OH. The Motz Group has launched its new Content Management System (CMS) website, at www.themotzgroup.com. The dramatically redesigned site is fresh, clean and easy to navigate. “Clear communication both visual and in words is the key when it comes to design and I believe we achieved that with this new site” says Mary Beth Wilker of Wilker Design & Marketing.

The home page welcomes viewers with a powerful flash banner, top industry related news information and a small sampling of the teams and schools with whom they’ve worked.
Zach Burns, Director of Sales & Marketing, is proud of the new site. “We are excited for the roll out. It’s fresh, user-friendly and packed with useful information. Best of all we will be updating it constantly to keep the most current information available for our clients. Our hope is that visitors will gain a comprehensive view of our dynamic company and the athletic field industry as a whole.”

Notable features

Project Gallery- brilliant layout of featured fields organized by field system type with expandable image and client quotes.

Synthetic / Natural / Sports - resource of products, applications and useful information helping clients decide which system might be appropriate for their needs.

News / Media - keeping visitors abreast of the latest happenings including blog articles, press releases and video footage.

You are invited to visit the website and return often since it will be regularly updated with new photographs, news and other informative pieces.

About The Motz GroupFounded in 1977, The Motz Group specializes in the design and construction of Synthetic and Natural Turf Systems for professional, college and high school teams. Please visit the website to learn more!

For more information contact:
Erin Richards
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: info@themotzgroup.com

Friday, September 10, 2010

Tri-Valley Named STC Field of Dreams National Finalist

The results have come in for STC's Real Field of Dreams contest. 
We are so proud of our fields that were either finalists or nominees! 
Click HERE for original site

2010 Winners of the Search for the Real Field of Dreams
Synthetic turf athletic fields and community parks have transformed the lives of America’s youth and enhanced public wellness. As you’ll see, the winners of the Synthetic Turf Council’s 2010 Search for the Real Field of Dreams Contest have amazing stories to share. Kids in economically-challenged urban areas now have safe play spaces instead of rundown, concrete school yards. A community came together to survive an F-5 Tornado with their new synthetic turf field as a rallying point of local pride. Elite and amateur athletes have exceeded their personal goals by accessing new, state-of-the art facilities. We hope you enjoy reading about how people improved their communities with these real fields of dreams!

National Finalist (Athetlic Fields Category)Tri-Valley High School, Dresden, OH
Our unique story begins in the small town of Dresden, Ohio. Dresden started as a bustling little town with a canal cut right through it that connected the Muskingum River to the historic Ohio canal. Ironically, our football stadium was built in 1950 in the valley where that very canal once existed. The Longaberger family moved to Dresden in late 1800’s and the basket business began. By the mid 1900’s the origins of the Longaberger basket company were beginning to take shape. By the late 1970’s, Dave Longaberger had created a booming business based out of Dresden that catered to people all over the world and provided them with handmade baskets.

As the years passed by, Dresden became a tourist hotspot with more than one hundred tour busses stopping daily. The townspeople flocked to buy real estate on Main Street in Dresden, and it filled with shop after shop specializing in baskets of all varieties. Our town had a new identity, one that would remain a source of pride for many years. The Longaberger Homestead, just outside of town, employed over 8,000 and people came from miles away to watch as workers hand wove the baskets they would later purchase. For years, our entire town’s economy prospered because of the Longaberger basket company.

In the last ten years, that prosperity has turned to despair as it has in so many blue-collar towns. The Longaberger Company has cut its workforce from 8,000 to just over 1,000. Many of the small shops that once lined our downtown have closed as the sounds of tour busses have slowly faded over the past few years. Unemployment in our county is nearly 16%, compared to the state average of 10%. As the Longaberger Company faded the one thing that had established our town’s identity also began to fade. With it went our town’s feeling of pride and in some ways the self worth that comes along with being a booming tourist attraction.

Out town needed a shot of adrenaline. It needed something to rally around, and something to be proud of again. This is where our “Field of Dreams” came to fruition.

Tri-Valley High School is located in Dresden. It was created in 1966 when three local districts consolidated. Sine that day it has had a long tradition of sports excellence. However, the one sport that could never establish continued success was football. As if it were destiny, just as the morale of our town started to decline, the morale of the football program began to build. The 2008 season was out third winning season in a row and our program reached the state playoffs for the first two times in history in 2006 and 2007.

With our success, came challenges. Our numbers were at an all-time high as we now had over 175 boys in our program from 7-12 grade. Unfortunately, we had only one football practice field to accommodate all of our student athletes. This lack of space created huge logistical problems when you strive to get your athletes home in time to be good students. Our situation was made worse by the fact that our game field was in no condition to accommodate practices as well as games. As I mentioned earlier, our field was built where a canal once ran and as a result it had severe drainage issues. In fact, by the middle of the season we began painting the middle of the field to make it appear as if we had grass. It constantly drew the ire of opposing coaches because they feared their athletes would get injured as a result of the field conditions.

At the end of 2008, we decided to build on the momentum created by the football program and propose the field turf project to our school and community. Six months later we had our new synthetic turf field and everything has changed. Our student athletes have all reaped the benefits of such a great surface. The football team is now able to play and practice on a perfect surface everyday. Younger players now use our remaining practice field after school. Student athletes have been remarkable as well. With the exception of days in which it was snow covered, not a day has passed since the synthetic turf field project has been completed that our field has not been in use. From soccer and band in the fall, to baseball, softball and track in the spring, our turf gets used on a daily basis. The drainage problems that were so prevalent on our old field are now non-existent.

Describing the great benefits the field has had for our student athletes is really only half the story. The other half of the story revolves around a small town that has been revived by our synthetic turf field project. About a community and a town that had lost its identity and source of joy. The people in our great town, like some many other blue-collar towns throughout America want something to believe in, to take pride in, and something they can call their own. Our field is theirs as much as it is ours. Our schools, our student athletes, and our new synthetic turf field are now the identity of our great town. Like many places in America, people are still struggling to find occupational success. But in our town, every Friday night in the fall, townspeople forget about their problems and share in the thrill of success that our completed project has provided. This year they watched Tri-Valley Football complete a perfect 5-0 home record on the new synthetic turf field. The resurgence of our football program and the resiliency of our town now resonate every day when you look out at our new “field of dreams.”

Other 2010 Nominees include
City of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Cotting School, Lexington, MA
Falcon Field, Meriden, CT
Home Plate Baseball, Peachtree City, GA
Loveland High School, Loveland, OH*
Madeira High School, Cincinnati, OH*
Marist High School, Atlanta, GA
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Riverdale County Schools, Bronx, NY
South Oldham High School, Crestwood, KY*

*These teams also play on 24/7 Systems

For more information contact:
Zach Burns, Director
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: info@themotzgroup.com

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Tonight! Lasalle v. Lakota East

Lakota East's 24/7 Turf Field
La Salle at Lakota East capsule

Who: La Salle (2-0) at Lakota East (1-1)

When: 7:05 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9
Where: Lakota East High School
This game will be televised live on Fox Sports Ohio.

What’s at stake: The Thunderhawks and Lancers meet for the third straight season, with La Salle winning the previous two contests by scores of 13-10 and 34-7.

East looks to build off its first victory of the Rick Haynes Era, a 24-21 triumph at Glen Este, but La Salle will be up to the task. The Lancers are coming off a 50-7 blowout win over Covington Catholic in which they compiled 594 yards of total offense.

The Thunderhawks and Lancers will play on Lakota's East's new 24/7 Synthetic Turf Field installed by The Motz Group. 

For more information contact:
Zach Burns, Director Sales & Marketing
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: info@themotzgroup.com

Friday, September 3, 2010

Lindsey Wilson Ready to Play Football on Their New Motz Group Field

Lindsey Wilson Football Coaching Staff
Buzz around Football Extends to National USA Today Coverage
Lindsey Wilson College received national recognition on Wednesday, August 11, as the Blue Raider football program was mentioned in USA Today.

Lindsey Wilson is one of at least 26 schools in the NAIA and NCAA beginning football over a four year span (2009-2013). Blue Raider football returns -- the program has been dormant for 75 years -- at 1:30 p.m. CT on September 4 against another first-year program, Notre Dame (Ohio) College.

Lindsey Wilson and Notre Dame are among six institutions beginning football this season.

The article cites the stark contrast between Lindsey Wilson and NCAA's University South Alabama -- who has an enrollment of more than 14,000 students -- as both begin the venture of football in 2010.

"It's exciting to see Lindsey Wilson and our programs receive national acknowledgement," LWC athletics director Willis Pooler said. "The USA Today article is an example of how football is another vehicle for us to extend the college's mission to a wider audience."

Click here for full article from USA Today.


Coach Oliver says being pleased with The Motz Group is an understatement
“Building a college football program from scratch is a huge undertaking, and picking the right company for our artificial turf project was one of the biggest decisions we had to make during the entire process. After researching multiple companies and checking references across the region, we made the decision to have The Motz Group install their ‘24/7’ synthetic turf at our new stadium. To say we’ve been pleased with our field over the past 10 months is an understatement. The installation process was smooth, and the entire Motz Group staff was great to work with. After practicing on our field throughout spring football and fall camp, I can say without a doubt that I’ve never stepped foot on a nicer synthetic turf field anywhere. During the research process I had other coaches tell me that we couldn’t go wrong if we went with The Motz Group, and I now share that same sentiment.”

Chris Oliver
Head Football Coach
Lindsey Wilson College


For more information contact:
Zach Burns, Director
The Motz GroupSM
Phone: 513.533.6452
Email: info@themotzgroup.com