facilities
April 30, 2021
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...
March 30, 2021
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...
March 1, 2021
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...
February 13, 2021
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...
January 26, 2021
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...
January 12, 2021
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 ...
October 14, 2020
Re-Imagining Your Sports Lighting
{Sponsored} The evolutionary process of lighting, from the old-school HID and fluorescent fixtures, hit the fast-forward button a little less than a decade ago. That, as you’ll recall, was when LED arrived on the scene. Suddenly, lighting was ...
October 9, 2020
Univ. of Maine Receives $90M Gift for Athletic Facilities
The University of Maine is the recent recipient of the largest single gift to an athletics department at a public university in New England and among the largest gifts ever nationwide, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. The Harold Alf...
Teach kids to pay attention to their bodies and their own thirst, and to “drink to thirst”—that is, drink enough water so that the thirst recedes. Rehydrate between sports events/practices.
The telltale signs of heat-related illness in student-athletes
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Each year, an estimated 240 people die from heat-related illnesses, an...