With winter fast approaching in the Twin Cities, you’re likely more worried about getting those last leaves up off your lawn when the snow melts than the lawn itself, but if you’re MNUFC Head Groundskeeper Ryan Moy, your concern right now is about the health and well-being of one very specific plot of land: the pitch at Allianz Field.
Moy — who received his Master’s of Agriculture and Horticulture from the University of Minnesota in 2007 before spending over a decade at Hazeltine National Golf Club — became the club’s head groundskeeper when the process of growing the grass for Allianz Field was already well underway out in Colorado, but he wouldn’t have changed a single thing prior to his arrival.