Field Feature Friday: International Women’s Day 2019 Edition

We sure do love our sports. Football, baseball, soccer, there’s too many to count! For many, it’s the first time we experience what it means to work as a team. It’s where we begin to understand how important it is to practice and it’s the beginning of a lifelong skill: hard work. For International Women’s Day, Act Global celebrates the incredibly strong female athletes who show the world what it means to persevere in the sports industry.

For starters, women’s sports has seen huge success within the last decade. According to the Olympics website, women have participated in every Olympic sport at the Games since 2012 and has since increased close to 50 percent between men and women participants. For every sport in the Olympics, there must be a division for both men and women. Women are surely making their mark in world wide sports!

A proud moment for Act Global in women’s sports include the 2015 Women’s World Cup. The tournament took place at the Montreal Olympic Stadium, a stadium Act Global proudly provided the turf for. Check out the highlights from the game!

These women know what it means to bring out their A game! But we can’t forget the woman who lead the U.S. Women’s National Team to victory. As a response to her coaching process of the tournament, Head Coach Jill Ellis stated, “As a coach you have to have resolve and you have to commit to what you believe in. This is a seven-game tournament and it was never going to be perfect. You just have to commit to what you believe in.”

Today is truly a day to commemorate. But the celebration shouldn’t stop because the clock hits midnight. Whether it’s International Women’s or Men’s Day, it’s important to take time to honor the influential people in our lives and to reflect the teachings they give us throughout our lifetime.

Lastly, we at Act Global would like to extend our gratitude and thanks to our female employees and the efforts they make each day to “Be More”.

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Act Global is a world leader in synthetic turf technology with an ISO 9001 Quality Certified manufacturing facility in Calhoun, Georgia, and field installations in over 90 countries. Act Global has supplied its Xtreme Turf synthetic turf to over 600 football fields. Act Global is a FIFA Quality Licensee and preferred supplier for World Rugby, the International Hockey Federation, and the United Soccer League. The Act Global UBU Speed Series is the leading brand for NFL & NCAA Division I Football Fields has been featured in the New Orleans Superdome 2013, New York MetLife Stadium 2014, and Minneapolis U.S. Bank Stadium 2018. Act Global also produced and installed the playing surface at the New Orleans Superdome in 2017 and 2018.