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PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Sprowls Horizon Sports Park in Pinellas Park is hosting its grand opening this weekend after years of planning.
The complex has six baseball and softball fields, a field hockey rink, a playground and more.
What You Need To Know
- Sprowls Horizon Sports Park is home to baseball and softball fields, a multi-purpose field, a field hockey rink and more
- Sprowls Horizon Sports Park General Manager Michael Nielsen said the park will bring in 160,000 people a year
- The baseball and softball fields are booked every weekend through the end of 2026
Baseball coaches like Sean Rodriguez are thrilled that the kids they coach will have the opportunity to play at the park.
“To say they got to experience their youth on fields like this, it’s going to make it that much more memorable,” he said.
Rodriguez is a co-owner of R3 — With God No Fear.
He had a 13-year major league baseball career, including spending 2010 through 2014 with the Rays.
Rodriguez said they’ve been looking for fields where they could consistently practice for three years.
This sports park is giving them exactly what they’ve been looking for.
“I was walking and just messing around with some of my parents, and they were like, man, this is beautiful,” he said. “I was like, yeah, I’m trying to find Jesus because this has got to be heaven.”
Pinellas Park Community Development Administrator Nick Colonna said the park will be an anchor for the city.
“We offer good food,” he said about the city. “We offer great manufacturing base. We offer a lot of great retail. We offer farms. We offer a lot. Now, we offer a regional sports complex that brings in people that have never seen the region and the city.”
Sprowls Horizon Sports Park General Manager Michael Nielsen said the park will bring in 160,000 people a year.
The park is already booked every weekend through the end of 2026.
“With tournaments every single weekend, including national and regional, and local tournaments, you have people coming from Delaware, Colorado, California, all to see this wonderful city, but also highlighting something for the local community and bringing in people from Tampa or even Lakeland to enjoy the site,” he said.
There will be a ribbon-cutting on Saturday to recognize the opening of the park.
The park will open at noon every day.
Nielsen said rental for the baseball and softball fields is $90 per hour.
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Matt Lackritz
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