AED Advocate Rachel Moyer Keeps Working the Beat
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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Announcing the Twelfth Annual Excellence in Youth Sports Award Winners (2011)
Two parks and recreation agencies and three military installations are recipients of the 2011 Excellence in
Youth Sports Awards.
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Arizona and Hawaii Introduce High School Sand Volleyball, Surfing
Athletes in Hawaii and Arizona will soon be taking their game to the beach — well, in Hawaii, anyway.
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Bringing Natural Light into Subterranean Spaces
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
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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New Projects: University of Washington; Ithaca College; FAU
The University of Washington's Husky Stadium will have a new look for the 2013 football season.
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Pool Enclosures with Operable Systems Combine Benefits of Indoor and Outdoor Pools
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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Rec Department and YMCA Team Up for Youth Weight Loss Contest
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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Schools Struggle to Find Where Fitness Fits
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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Software Helps Facilities Enhance Relationships with End-Users
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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Student-Athlete Advocates Comment on Latest NCAA Reforms
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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