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...varsity football team at Claremont High School had not played a real home game for 50 years. The grass field at the school, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, was always in terrible shape, trampled by exercise classes, marching bands and other sports teams. So the football team played its "home" games on the field of another school in town. All the while, Claremont High spent as much as $20,000 a year maintaining its own sorry turf...
...Claremont's dilemma is one familiar to sports teams from the New York Giants to the Tennessee Titans, which this season have repeatedly had to stumble and slide through games on muddy, ripped-up turf. But Claremont found a solution, and it's likely to become a home-field advantage for many other teams...
...more than $700,000. The new surface is not classic AstroTurf, which many players consider hard and abrasive, but a softer, shaggier material called FieldTurf, made of sand, recycled rubber sneakers and blades of grass fashioned from synthetic fiber. Pleased with the feel and durability of its new field, Claremont High this season was host to its first home football games in a half-century...
...compared with $150,000 for grass, the increased usage and much reduced maintenance costs can make the switch a bargain. And teams that have the new synthetic grass say it's safer than real grass, which can become dangerously uneven if it's overused. Steve Lowe, groundkeeper for the Claremont School District, says players have had many fewer injuries on the synthetic field...
...earned an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., a master's in engineering at UCLA and an M.B.A. at Harvard. He learned his current craft at such places as Lotus Development Corp., Dun & Bradstreet and Spencer Trask Software Group, a technology-focused venture-capital firm in New York City. Spencer Trask CEO Kevin Kimberlin remembers Kim as the rare executive who knows software and electronics and is also skilled in finance and marketing--and in closing tough deals...