Hillcrest High School FFA Chapter members Jeremy Willis (left), Spencer Abercrombie, Clark Cox, Sports Turf Manager at the University of South Carolina and a former State FFA Officer in North Carolina;
FFA members Jordan Dupree and Courtland Dunar with David Brooks, Agricultural Education Teacher,
studying the turf grass field in the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Football Stadium in Columbia.
BROOKS NAMED WINNER OF NATIONAL SPORTS TURF MANAGERS AWARD
COLUMBIA, SC….David Brooks, Agricultural Education Teacher at Hillcrest High School, Simpsonville, SC, has been named winner of the National Sports Turf Managers Association Baseball Field of The Year Award, according to John W. Parris, state director of public affairs with the SC Agricultural Educators Association.
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Brooks will be recognized at the National Sports Turf Managers Association Convention in Orlando, Florida, in January 2006. He was named state winner by the SC Sports Turf Managers Association in December and honored at a ceremony in Columbia.
“This is the first time a South Carolinian has won the national award in the Baseball Field of the Year category,” said Dr. Trent Hale, executive director of the SC Sports Turf Managers Association. Dr. Hale is Assistant Professor and Extension Turfgrass Specialist headquartered at the Pee Dee Research and Education Center near Florence, SC.
Brooks is a graduate of Clemson University with a BS in Animal Science and a MS Degree in Agricultural Education.