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Grizzlies to open Taos park
The Adams State College men’s soccer team will play perhaps its only home scrimmage of the spring season this Sunday and will then help open the Taos Eco park, a state-of-the-art multi-purpose synthetic turf complex in Taos, N.M., on the weekend of Apr. 16-17.
The Grizzlies will face Mesa State College’s Club Team at 2 p.m. Sunday at Murphy Field and will then be part of grand opening ceremonies for the FIFA 2 Star Field certified pitch on the following weekend. The Grizzlies also have a home scrimmage tentatively set against Metro State’s Club Team on Saturday, April 23, but the status and exact time of that event is pending.
The Taos Eco Park has been awarded a FIFA 2 Star Field Certification by the Federation Internationale de Football Association. A FIFA 2 Star Field Certification guarantees that a synthetic field’s quality, consistency of play and safety standards will mirror natural grass.
The field is one of just four such synthetic fields to receive such certification in the entire country and at 7,000 feet above sea level, is the highest in the world.
A total of nine soccer games, including the Grizzlies’ 10 a.m. clash on Sunday, April 17, against the Rio Vista Nike Premier 94B/U-17 squad, will be played on the field during the weekend-long festival.
“It’s an honor to be part of the grand opening and to be one of the highlighted colleges playing that weekend,” Grizzly coach Tim Busen said.
The Grand Opening festivities will also include an autograph signing session from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, April16, by Grizzly players and players from the University of New Mexico Lobos, the University of Denver Pioneers, squads who play each at 4 p.m. that day. Parking and admission to the festival, including the activities is free.
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