Apollo High School’s Michie Field underwent a comprehensive upgrade to improve performance, durability, and user experience across multiple sports. With football, girls soccer, and boys soccer all sharing the same field, maintaining quality turf throughout the season had become a challenge. The shift to synthetic turf ensures consistent field conditions deep into the fall, while enhancements to the track and field event areas for high jump, long jump, and pole vault round out a series of improvements designed to support both athletes and spectators.

Design Tree led civil engineering for a complete site transformation, regrading and reconstructing the track and field with improved subgrade preparation and underdrain systems to address poor clay soils. Our team designed the synthetic turf stadium base, stormwater management infrastructure, expanded parking, ADA-compliant trails, utilities, and site lighting coordination. Engineered soils and phased planning ensured long-term performance, durability, and future expansion capacity, with stormwater management tied into the overall campus plan for construction in 2024, 2025, and 2026.

The project was executed on an occupied high school campus and carefully phased to align with school operations. Major construction was scheduled during summer to minimize disruption, work areas were isolated for safety, and existing facilities were protected to allow continued seasonal use. Close collaboration with the Owner ensured the design met budget constraints while supporting diverse athletic and community activities for years to come.