Monroe Community College (MCC)

Location: Rochester, N.Y.
Surface System Used: A-Turf® DiamondPlay SB system
Completion: October 2024

Overview

Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, N.Y., has been meeting the changing needs of its students and community since 1961. As a member of the State University of New York system, MCC offers students a quality education as well as a variety of extracurricular activities, including nine men’s and women’s sports teams.

To keep the women’s softball team at the Brighton campus at the top of their game, MCC unveiled a new cutting-edge softball field that features approximately 50,000-square-feet of A-Turf® DiamondPlay SB! This system elevates the athletic experience for both students and community members.

KEY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS

MCC’s $1.5 million investment into the new softball field marks a significant milestone and underscores the college’s dedication to providing its athletes with top-of-the-line facilities for training and competition. The new field amenities include:

• Modern dugouts
• Home and away bullpens
• Storage area
• Hitting tunnel
• New scoreboard
• State-of-the-art artificial turf

MCC selected the A-Turf DiamondPlay SB system, because its designed with the ideal play characteristics of a high-caliber natural softball field. The artificial turf system includes different heights, fiber designs, and infill ratios between the infield and outfield areas. A custom MCC Tribune mascot greets batters approaching home plate.

The benefits of an A-Turf artificial grass system include:

• Best characteristics of natural grass for consistent ball bounce and roll
• Permanently inlaid markings that eliminate line chalking
• Go all-synthetic virtually eliminates maintenance.

The MCC softball field is the fourth A-Turf field MCC has added to its Brighton campus. The men’s baseball field features Premier RS and was installed in 2012. DiMarco Field, home to MCC soccer and lacrosse, features A-Turf’s original Titan-RS system and was installed in 2018. In 2023, MCC installed the Titan DiamondBlade System in their indoor practice field at the Monroe CC PAC Center.

For more information about the DiamondPlay BB and SB systems A-Turf offers for baseball and softball fields, visit our website.