Good Sports: Valley students picked to work on USC's turf ahead of season opener

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Golden Valley High School seniors Greyson Dockstader and Cody Peterson aren't conscionable cutting grass.

They anticipation that they're cutting the hold clip for a aboriginal career.

"I've ever wanted to beryllium a portion of a grounds crew, erstwhile I spot them retired there, erstwhile I ticker baseball, shot games," Peterson said.

Atwater and Golden Valley High School are pioneers connected the West Coast for a people called Turf and Sports Field Management.

It's thing we archetypal introduced to you past Fall.

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"We've got a batch of athletes that didn't deliberation ag was of involvement to them, but they've gone into the programme and truly excelled," says Atwater High School Teacher Dave Gossman.

This year, some schools were invited by USC to nonstop students to assistance get the shot tract acceptable for the Trojans play opener connected August 30.

"You tin larn worldly successful a classroom, but to beryllium capable to spell to the existent tract and larn from experienced professionals, it's a antithetic perspective," Dockstader said.

Greyson and Cody are 2 of the 4 section students picked for a travel heading to The Coliseum.

"We're connected an immaculate field, and our kids get to say, 'Hey, we did that.'" Says Golden Valley High School teacher, Kevin Magill.

It's an accidental that could acceptable up a vocation for these Valley students.

The students volition get the accidental to larn hands-on from the Trojans unit and crew.

"Hoping to bring much of that cognition to the programme truthful we tin thatch radical however to beryllium successful the industry, however to get acceptable to work," Peterson said.

The Atwater programme has already been invited to Pebble Beach, Oracle Park and respective outpouring grooming sites.

After helping the Trojans tract staff, the 4 students volition beryllium invited to ticker USC's play opener.

"It gets america giddy that we get to spell assistance get a tract acceptable that we ticker connected ESPN," Magill said.

It's a hands-on acquisition that puts these students connected the field

"The schoolroom tin benignant of marque it look it's a cleanable occupation and thing tin spell wrong," Peterson said. "This is truly what I privation to bash with my life. I privation to prosecute the turf writer manufacture and marque it my vocation someday."

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