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FINAL FRAME A sporting chance 54 | Insight ��� M a r c h 2 013 P h oto g r a p h co u r t e s y o f S y n e r g y F i e l d s Green Bay���s new Synergy Fields features a 13,500square-foot, all-synthetic turf field, giving young people and professional athletes a year-round indoor sports training venue in the New North. Synergy, owned by Scotty Smith, works in partnership with Smith���s other business, House of Speed, to train athletes in soccer, football, baseball and softball. The field already has several specialized training camps planned for this year, including a visit from British soccer experts (the other football), and an offensive lineman camp run by a former player for the New York Jets. ���(House of Speed) has grown quite a bit over the last three years,��� Smith says. ���We���ve brought in professional athletes and worked with some Packers and some guys from other pro teams, and we needed a facility that could get the kids on a grass-type surface, obviously to get them out of the elements here in Wisconsin.��� The venue also will be host to the professional Green Bay Blizzard indoor football team, hosting the team���s tryouts, training camp and regular season practices. The public will be able to attend regular practice sessions. But ���blizzard��� or not, like-minded athletes both aspiring and pro will have a new place to improve their game. ���Just because there���s snow on the ground doesn���t mean that we can���t be like (training that���s) happening down south in Louisiana and Florida and places like that,��� says Smith. ���Just because the grass isn���t green on the outside, it���s green inside, and we can get it done indoors.��� ��� Nikki Kallio w w w. i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m