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New practice field for marching band
The 300-plus-member Spartan Marching Band will have a new home beginning with the 2014 football season.
Earlier this summer, the MSU Board of Trustees approved repurposing a portion of Munn Field, located just a few hundred yards southwest of Spartan Stadium at the corner of Shaw Lane and Chestnut Road, as an artificial turf field for the SMB.
The new field will include a regulation-size football field, lights, a permanent band tower, spectator seating, fencing, gates and an underground drain system. The band's current practice field, located immediately north of Demonstration Hall, is a natural-grass surface lacking lighting, a permanent tower and fencing and gates.
"The band currently practices at Demonstration Hall Field, but the location continues to be problematic because of the maintenance requirements and irrigation issues associated with a grass field," a university memo on the new practice field reads. "An artificial turf field would provide a safer and superior surface for the band. The field would be scheduled by intramural sports and summer sports camps for other activities when not in use by the Spartan Marching Band."
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