Venue Guide: Pan Am Fields designed for field hockey
Venue Guide is a series looking at the sites of the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games.
Field hockey requires a super-soaked turf field for the ball to roll smoothly. So, two were built on the University of Toronto campus for TO2015.
![National team vice captain Danielle Hennig warms up on the fields in late May 2015.](https://develop.olympic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fields-wet.jpg?quality=100)
National team vice captain Danielle Hennig warms up on the fields in late May 2015 (Alexandra Fernando).
The fields are actually quite picturesque, quietly surrounded by historic U of T campus structures. With some big bright lamps, a few stands, and some field hockey…it’ll actually be a fairly dramatic place (Get tickets).
There are two international ‘Global Class 1’ fields. This is the International Hockey Federation (FIH) standard. There will be one for warm-up, the other for competition. To wet them, massive hoses have been installed around the turf to blast water before games. An irrigation system manages the entire process.