facilities

Selecting the Surface for Your Strength & Conditioning Facility
Every weight room is different, with the following factors to consider: Space Allotment Desired Design Programming Needs Durability Requirements Performance Expectations Maintenance Program Budget And just as not every weigh...

How Wear-and-Tear Varies Between Turf Types
Talk with anyone who has experience managing, playing on, or dealing with artificial turf, and you might hear a few unfortunate stories about turf fibers disintegrating, splitting and pulling loose, infill splashing and compacting, and other situatio...

West Texas A&M Scores Big with Buffalo Stadium
After nearly six decades of playing football nearly two miles down the road from campus at Kimbrough Stadium, the West Texas A&M University football program finally moved back on campus for the fall of 2019 into brand-new Buffalo Stadium in Canyo...

Ranney School’s 80,000 sq ft. Outdoor Facelift
On the campus of a school that prides itself on producing the best and brightest of the future, it’s only fitting that the Ranney School provides its students with state-of-the-art facilities. The independent, co-ed, secular college preparator...

LaGrange High School’s Barn’ Raising
It’s never easy saying goodbye to an old love, but the blow can be softened when you welcome a brand-new flame. Just ask Michael Pauley and the student-athletes at LaGrange (GA) High School. For nearly 70 years the gymnasium at LaGrange, affec...

NFHS Revises Guidance on COVID-19 Transmission During High School Sports
After evaluating experiences of schools participating in high school sports during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (SMAC) has revised its May 2020 guidance do...

South Alabama’s Changing the Gameday Experience
The first-ever football game played in the newly-built Hancock Whitney Stadium at the University of South Alabama, in Mobile, had all the bells and whistles the Jaguars’ athletic department felt their fans and players deserved. For the roughly...

10th Annual Athletic Directors Survey
Are high school athletic programs struggling financially? How have athletic departments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic? Which sports are being added to athletic departments in the not-so-distant future? These are a few of the questions we answer ...