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When Residents Reject Youth-Sports Fields
Youth-sports fields generally offer positive benefits for communities. Most notably, they encourage children’s participation in team sports, where they can establish healthy habits, hone their skills, and fortify social bonds.
Think Outside A Box Full of Water
For those who have a competition pool and wonder what else you can do other than have swim meets—this article is intended to help you literally think outside your box full of water.
Show, Don’t Tell
Parks systems play critical roles in generating significant economic, health, and environmental benefits that enhance the quality of life in communities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parks staff members know this, but they often struggle with the best ways to prove it to partners, grantors, and local tax payers; communities often don’t think of parks as economic drivers.
A Contribution To The Community
Colorado College has just unveiled its first on-campus hockey arena and sporting-event venue, Ed Robson Arena. The 135,000-square-foot project marks the first time the hockey team will be able to play games on campus since the program’s founding in 1938.
Youth-Sports Administration 101: Preventative Field Maintenance
Whether you own and operate sports facilities or have a user-group agreement, you still have the responsibility to ensure those facilities are safe and last the test of time. Maintaining them properly is the key.
Interior Inspection
The inspection procedures and recommended frequencies are usually based on national and state codes, regulations and standards, preventative maintenance, and best loss-prevention practices.
A Legacy Reborn
Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation reopened the iconic American Legion Memorial Stadium (ALMS) with a small ceremony on July 7, 2021. The $40.5-million stadium—located in Charlotte, North Carolina’s center city, on a 9.80-acre site adjacent to the main campus of Central Piedmont Community College—was built during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program of the New Deal.
Intersectional Efforts
When people have access to the outdoors, they thrive. From improving mental health to increasing physical activity, the outdoors has much to offer anyone privileged to live close to a park or an open space.
Valuing Volunteers
With the exception of 2020, which wiped out youth sports, one of my favorite moments each year is reviewing the final applications from the NAYS volunteer coach- and parent-of-the-year nominations. Applications come in from around the world from member organizations on almost every U.S. military installation that organizes youth sports.
Gathering Trophies
“The overriding problem with our world in general is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.