Renegades Home Field Construction Breaks Ground

2010 July 22

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Construction of Gateway Field, future home of Arizona Academy of Youth Soccer Renegades has broken ground. On Thursday, April 22nd, construction officially commenced with the generous help from Mike Young, President of Young Farm Leveling & Dirt Work and Ed Johnson, President of Sierra Spring Contracting. Both companies took time from their extremely busy schedules to fit The Academy in and donated their time, heavy equipment and equipment operators to officially help Arizona Academy of Youth Soccer begin the process of preparing our Home Field for the
upcoming soccer season.

The construction process began with the movement of large amounts of earth to fill in a large water retention area approximately the total length of the field. Field preparation continued with cultivation of the entire area of the playing field to remove large amounts of residual concrete and large stones from past housing construction of the local area. It appears as if Gateway Field was a previous dumping ground for construction crew’s years ago. Once satisfied with field groundwork, leveling of the field was completed on Friday, April 23rd wrapping up the first major portion of construction of Gateway Field.

A special recognition goes to Claude Dossie and John Branson, equipment operators who put their skills to the test in preparing the playing field while battling strenuous city code restrictions for noise and dust. Without the help of these generous individual’s, Gateway Field would not have been considered for construction for the upcoming 2010-2011 season but a mere afterthought until the following soccer season.
The Renegades Staff and all the boys and girls on our AAYS Academy and Development teams would like to send their sincerest gratitude to the entire staff at Mike Young Farm Leveling & Dirt Work and Sierra Springs Contracting for their tremendous contribution and support of Arizona Academy of Youth Soccer.