At Regis Jesuit, coach Matt Darr feels fortunate to not have to do any of the mowing. Private schools tend to have more help from their school’s grounds crew. “There’s always something that needs fixed.” “I grew up in Nebraska so I feel like my field is like a ranch - there’s always something do,” Johnson said. time and a great opportunity to develop how-to-win awareness.” That includes cutting the grass, hours that he sees as “baseball I.Q. Over at Cherry Creek, 78-year-old Marc Johnson still does all the field prep and maintenance for the Bruins, minus fixing sprinkler heads.
Mountain Vista coach Ron Quintana and an assistant spent most of a recent Sunday installing a turf halo around the Golden Eagles’ home plate. That makes Baughn’s above-and-beyond effort with his field the norm. And I get a lot of pride from seeing the end result.” I want to provide our guys a positive experience as well. “The maintenance of the field is a safety thing, and a consistency thing, but it goes beyond that. It’s definitely a time commitment to put in the work that myself and other coaches do to make the fields playable, and not just playable but nice. “To cut the entire field, it takes a while. “We have a personal riding lawn mower that you would cut your house grass with, and it goes four miles per hour tops,” Baughn says. Because if the varsity coach isn’t taking care of the field before games and on off-days, nobody is. Such is the life of a high school baseball coach, a title that almost always comes with a second job, and one that usually doesn’t pay: Head groundskeeper. The to-do list is endless just to keep the diamond in shape.
While his players are still in school, and the baseball field is deserted, Graham Baughn plugs in his earbuds, hops on a mini-mower under the beaming sun at Thomas Jefferson High School and spends the next three hours on cruise.Īnother hour or two of prep work follows, as he waters the infield dirt, drags it, tamps the mound and batter’s box, chalks the baselines. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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