PORTLAND, Ore. --- Portland Athletics' Fields Manager Kevin White has been awarded the 2016 Field of the Year Award for his maintenance and care of Merlo Field, announced the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) a few weeks ago.
"The Field of the Year Award is highly esteemed, and I am both extremely proud and humbled to have received it for the second time in my career," said White. "The first time was in 2013 while I was working at Seattle University."
White received a B.S. in Turfgrass Management from Cal Poly Pomona and has been working in the industry for 15 years, eight years in golf and now seven years in Sports Turf.