The Sports Turf Advisory Committee has been serving NIAAA members since 1992. The committee serves as an advisory committee to the NIAAA Board of Directors relating to sports turf issues. The committee desires to provide a greater awareness among athletic administrators for sports turf safety and serves as a resource for athletic administrators relating to sports turf. The committee engages in a number of activities relating athletic administrators to sports turf. Among its many activities, the committee has written articles for the IAA magazine, conducted focus groups for athletic administrators, conducted sports turf seminars for athletic administrators and performed faiclity renovations for high schools.

The committee is chaired by an active athletic administrator and the committee membership is a blend of active athletic administrators and persons from the sports turf industry.

The committee operates on the financial premise that is is a self funded committee. All committee expenses come from funds generated by the committee and all funds generated by the committee are spent on sports turf related issues. Committee funding is primarily through corporate sponsorships.