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Sports and Recreation Facilities Boost Small-College Enrollment
(February 2012 - Andrew Cohen)
Rick Creehan has been here before. Not here, exactly. When he started out in higher education in 1984, it was as the baseball coach at Allegheny College — a relatively well-known school, where he was given a relatively straightforward charge of producing winning baseball teams.
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Football Visionary Kurt Bryan Looks to Launch New Pro League
(February 2012 - Paul Steinbach)
During his first 21 years as a head football coach and offensive coordinator, Kurt Bryan ran exactly one play out of the shotgun formation.
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How to Make the Most of Limited Pool Deck Space
(February 2012 - Michael Popke)
As both a professional pool designer and the parent of two competitive swimmers, Matt Freeby attends several swim meets every year and keeps a mental list of competition venues he prefers to avoid.
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College Coaches on the Front Lines of Crisis Management
(February 2012 - Paul Steinbach)
Penn State replaced Joe Paterno, but Jerry Sandusky has been harder to shake. His name seems to appear whenever the university makes news lately.
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Allowing Natural Light into Locker Rooms
(January 2012 - Andrew Cohen)
Locker room users don’t tend to be bathed in natural light. Locker rooms are often located on a building’s lower levels and very often inhabit an interior space that opens into a daylit pool, gym or fitness center on the building’s perimeter.
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New Projects: Baylor; St. Joseph's College; Washington State University
(January 2012 - Emily Attwood)
St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, N.Y., began work on a new athletic facility last month.
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Sexual Abuse Expert Cordelia Anderson Assesses Coaching Scandals
(January 2012 - Paul Steinbach)
As president of the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Cordelia Anderson sees the Penn State University scandal as both a tragedy and an opportunity.
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Rethinking Municipal Golf Course Operations
(January 2012 - Emily Attwood)
Last November, the City of Duluth, Minn., hired a consultant from National Golf Foundation Consulting Inc. to evaluate its two 27-hole municipal golf courses and suggest improvements.
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Ten Things to Consider When Purchasing a Hardwood Gym Floor
(January 2012 - Paul Steinbach)
The Road to the Final Four is paved in maple. And so are the majority of gymnasiums at every level of competition across North America.
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Outdoor Sports Lighting Projects Don't Need to Rile the Neighbors
(January 2012 - Michael Popke)
The Westport (Conn.) Planning and Zoning Commission, in granting the Installation of permanent lights at the Staples High School football field in November, brought to a close nearly 35 years of often-contentious debate between city leaders, sports boosters and school neighbors over spill and glare issues.
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Record NCAA Graduation Rates Don't Tell The Whole Story
(January 2011 - Paul Steinbach)
Nearing the end of a year marked by scandal and scrutiny, the NCAA finally had some good news to share.
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How High School ADs Can Rein in Questionable Coaching Behavior
(January 2012 - Michael Popke)
The final months of 2011 brought almost weekly stories of high school coaches misbehaving.
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Efficient Locker Room Design Maximizes Use of Small Spaces
(January 2012 - Emily Attwood)
From high-tech lock technology to plush lounge areas, whirlpools, Internet access and private showers and dressing areas, it's easy to sink a significant amount of money into creating the ultimate locker room.
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Universal Truths in Fitness Facility Management
(January 2012 - Rob Bishop and Barry Klein)
We may be showing our age here, but we regularly invoke Bill Murray from Groundhog Day, the 1993 film in which his hapless weatherman, Phil Connors, relives the same day over and over until he gets things right.
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Drought-Ridden Field Owners Reconsider Maintenance Practices, Synthetic Turf
(January 2012 - Andrew Cohen)
Robert Lee, Texas, population 1,106, got three inches of rain in the first 11 months of 2011.
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Student-Athlete Advocates Comment on Latest NCAA Reforms
(December 2011 - Paul Steinbach)
Among the reforms approved Oct. 27 by the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors, two address longstanding concerns regarding the welfare of student-athletes receiving full scholarships.
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New Projects: University of Washington; Ithaca College; FAU
(December 2011 - Emily Attwood)
The University of Washington's Husky Stadium will have a new look for the 2013 football season.
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AED Advocate Rachel Moyer Keeps Working the Beat
(December 2011 - Paul Steinbach)
Greg Moyer's grave is marked by a homemade cross. Rachel Moyer vowed not to purchase a headstone until every school in America had an automated external defibrillator, the emergency heart-rhythm equipment that might have saved her 15-year-old son from sudden cardiac arrest during a basketball game in December 2000 — if only his high school had owned one.
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Rec Department and YMCA Team Up for Youth Weight Loss Contest
(December 2011 - Emily Attwood)
Childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years. It's a problem being addressed by schools, communities, families and government programs, with the clear consensus that our kids need to be eating better and exercising more.
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Bringing Natural Light into Subterranean Spaces
(December 2011 - Andrew Cohen)
Although adaptive reuse of an old structure typically involves the specification of state-of-the-art building systems and components, architects sometimes reach into the past for an idea that has withstood the test of time.
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How to Succeed in Membership Sales
(December 2011 - Rob Bishop and Barry Klein)
Your club is terrible at selling memberships. We know this because we’re all terrible at selling memberships, and even if you think your club isn’t, you are best served by thinking you are.
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Pool Enclosures with Operable Systems Combine Benefits of Indoor and Outdoor Pools
(December 2011 - Emily Attwood)
Once limited to a few short months of swimming during the summer, patrons of the aquatic facility at the Royal Glenora Club in Edmonton, Alb., now comfortably enjoy the water — and the surrounding landscape — year-round.
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Schools Struggle to Find Where Fitness Fits
(December 2011 - Michael Popke)
If you want to know just how desperately educators in New York City are trying to make fitness a priority for their students, look no further than Public School 197 in Queens.
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Announcing the Twelfth Annual Excellence in Youth Sports Award Winners (2011)
(December 2011 - Michael Popke)
Two parks and recreation agencies and three military installations are recipients of the 2011 Excellence in
Youth Sports Awards.
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Software Helps Facilities Enhance Relationships with End-Users
(December 2011 - Paul Steinbach)
Whether you run a health club, a recreation center or a martial arts studio, you do what you do well and with an entrepreneurial esprit unrivaled in most other professions.
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