Kyle Carney heading to Super Bowl thanks to Toro
15 Jan, 2009 Athletic Turf News
BLOOMINGTON, MN — The Toro Company selected Kyle Carney, turf student at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, as the winner of the seventh annual Toro Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program. Later this month Carney travels to Tampa Bay to help the grounds crew prepare the field and practice facilities for Super Bowl* XLIII.
Toro and the National Football League's (NFL) Super Bowl grounds team collaborated to offer a program aimed at enhancing the skills of emerging sports turf professionals. The Toro Super Bowl Sports Turf Training Program provides hands-on experience in establishing and maintaining safe playing fields for the Super Bowl.
Carney graduated in 2007 from the University of Massachusetts with a bachelor's degree in economics. While working for the Pawtucket Red Sox, a minor league baseball team, Carney discovered his true passion in sports turf maintenance. Carney felt that in order to have a successful career in the sports turf industry, he needed to further his education. In the fall of 2007, Carney enrolled at the University of Connecticut in the Turfgrass Science Program.
Carney has been involved in all aspects of the Pawtucket Red Sox field operations for the past four years. In addition, he worked for the athletic field management department at the University of Connecticut and with the Washington Nationals major league baseball team.
Toro equipment and professionals have been involved in helping prepare the stadium and practice fields for each Super Bowl event since the inaugural game in 1967.
"Carney captures Super Bowl caretaker role," East Bay Newspapers, 1/13
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