The Motz Group Donates Synthetic Turf to Cincinnati Children’s


The Motz Group Donates Synthetic Sports Turf to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The Synthetic Sports Turf is going to be used for a study involving area high schools students and to determine why female athletes seem to be at greater risk of ACL injuries when playing on synthetic sports turf. 


The Motz Group recently assisted Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center by donating nearly 1,000 square feet of synthetic sports turf for a special study that CCHMC is working on. “The synthetic sports turf will be going directly to schools in the Boone County School District to be used for intervention training for female soccer players”.“Females who participate in cutting and landing sports like soccer and basketball suffer anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries at a 2 to 10-fold greater rate than males participating in the same high-risk sports” Hauer explained. “Our previous work shows that lateral knee load and trunk motion can each independently increase ACL injury risk in female athletes. The major objectives of this project are to determine how lateral trunk motion increases knee load in female athletes who are at greater risk of ACL injury and to develop exercise training programs that decrease trunk motion, knee load and ACL injury risk in these high-risk athletes.”
 
“TMG is excited about donating synthetic sports turf to assist CCHMC in the important effort to improve the health of student athletes” says Zach Burns of The Motz Group. “Cincinnati Children’s has helped so many young people in our community - including many of our employee’s kids - we jumped at the chance to be involved.”
 
The Motz Group donated a total of 819 square feet of “TMG Non-Filled Indoor Synthetic Sports Turf” and 384 square feet of a 10 mm rubber pad. 

Hauer adds “The beauty of having the synthetic sports turf is that it allows the athletes to have a more realistic and safer prevention training experience. Each piece of synthetic sports turf will have a pattern spray painted on it so that each team has consistent marking for hopping, landing, cutting maneuvers they will be learning during their training.”



The Motz Group specializes in the design and construction of synthetic sports turf and natural turf systems for high school, college and professional teams.