Book Indoor Turf for Your Team's Off-Season | BSG
Posted by Burghardt Sporting Goods on Aug 14th 2026
Beat the Wisconsin Winter on Our Indoor Turf
In Wisconsin, winter runs your practice schedule. Renting indoor turf hands it back to you.
Every coach in southern Wisconsin knows the feeling. The season is coming, the roster needs reps, and the forecast says twelve degrees with a wind off the lake. Outdoor fields are done from late fall through spring, and a gym with a bucket of balls only gets you so far. That gap is exactly what the turf at our New Berlin Performance Center was built to fill. It is 7,500 square feet of indoor turf you can reserve by the hour and set up however your practice needs it.
What you can actually run on the turf
The turf is a real practice space, not a hallway with netting. Because the netting retracts, you can open it up for team work or split it into tunnels for stations. Here is how coaches tend to use an hour or two.
Full-team practice
Book the whole turf and run hitting, fielding, and baserunning stations at once. The mounds, tees, ball carts, and L-screens are already there, so you are coaching, not hauling gear.
Tryouts and evaluations
Reserve the HitTrax tunnel and put a number on every swing. Exit velocity and launch angle give you something more honest than a clipboard when you are cutting a roster.
Small-group and position work
Grab one or two tunnels for a pitching session, catcher work, or an infield group. You pay for the space you need instead of the whole building.
Camps and private lessons
A reserved block gives an instructor a clean, weatherproof space to run a lesson or a winter camp start to finish.
Rent the space, or just walk in and hit
There are two ways to get your players indoors here, and they solve different problems.
Reserve the turf when
- You want the whole group in one place.
- You need mounds, HitTrax, and stations set up.
- You are running a tryout, camp, or a standing team practice.
Walk in and hit when
- It is one player, or a couple, getting swings in.
- You did not plan ahead and just want cage time.
- You would rather pay per round than book an hour.
The walk-in batting cages need no reservation and run on the BSG Cage Card, so a player can drop in on an off day. When you need the full space for the whole roster, that is when you reserve the turf.
Winter does not have to be lost time. It can be the reason your team shows up in March already sharp.
Why train indoors at all
A Wisconsin off-season is long, and the teams that treat it as practice time, not downtime, are the ones that look ready on opening day. Indoor turf gives your players consistent footing, real reps, and a schedule the weather cannot cancel. Add the HitTrax data and you can actually measure whether an adjustment worked, instead of guessing. That is the difference between going through the motions in a gym and getting better in a space built for it.
We have been outfitting and supporting teams from New Berlin since 1881, and the Performance Center is how we help coaches keep programs moving through the cold months. While you are in, your players can try a bat free at the Demo House before buying, so a winter practice can double as a gear check.
Before you book your block
- Know your roster size, so you can pick tunnels or the full turf.
- Pick a weekly day and time and hold it for the season.
- Decide if you want the HitTrax tunnel for tracked hitting.
- Ask about the pitching machine and radar gun add-ons.
- Book early for January through March.
Give your team a winter home
Reserve the turf at our New Berlin Performance Center by the hour.
15333 W National Avenue, New Berlin, WI 53151
Phone: (262) 790-1170
Want the full rundown of the space, the tunnels, and everything the Performance Center offers? It is all there, along with the turf rental details on the turf area page.
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