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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Compared to other parks, it is very underutilized. Hosting Saturday Stoddert soccer and some afternoon practices on the field is not on par with other rec facilities in DC.[/quote]

If you look at the schedule that was posted upthread you'll see that the soccer field was scheduled 34 hours a week in the spring. I would bet that puts it in the top 10% of DPR facilities in terms of utilization. Most DPR facilities are very lightly used.[/quote]

This is something I happen to know a lot about - the permitted usage of a field does not in any way get reflected in the actual usage - all of the leagues reserve more time than they actually need to use.

As an example I coach one of my kids Little League teams so I know exactly what is on the permit and how the field is utilized and the field is utilized for about half of the permitted time.

As an example the permitted schedule that was linked to above includes hours up to 730PM but Hearst does not have lights so at this point in the fall there is no way anyone is using the field past 630PM unless the soccer players are wearing headlamps.

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What you are saying has more to do with the way DPR treats baseball as opposed to other sports. DPR reserves two thirds of their field space for baseball players, who make up maybe 10% of field users. For a DPR baseball field, two games in the same day would be considered heavy use. Fields where sports other than baseball are allowed are used very intensively.

I'm a Stoddert parent and I see the schedule, and I know that on Saturday there were 13 matches at Hearst, ten second grade games in the morning and three high school games in the afternoon. First game started at 8AM and last game ended at 5PM.  When my son played NWLL there would typically be two games a day at Palisades and Stoddert. NWLL has an 8-week season (soccer is 9) so each of those fields would host 16 games a season -- very close to what Hearst sees in a single day.[/quote]

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