The majority of weight rooms are strictly business. Rows of weights, racks, and machines line the mirrored walls, black rubberized flooring, beige walls, etc. The traditional philosophy has been to ‘get in, work hard, and get out.’ While this utilitarian template has worked well enough in the past, it can lead to uninspired workouts where athletes simply go through the motions.
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Alabama Football has a player’s lounge loaded with the latest and greatest amenities used to motivate their team and help them stay on top of their game. There are pool tables, air hockey tables, pop-a-shot, ping pong, foosball tables and a video arcade. They play among the most elite college football conferences in the world, and they still continue spending to stay on the top of the game.
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Heading into the spring and summer seasons, we turn our attention to the great outdoors. One athletic venue that is sometimes overlooked is the tennis facility. Tennis programs are often some of the most successful individual and team sports at a school. Because fans generally make their way directly to the courts, rather than the school buildings, the best place to recognize a tennis program is outdoors at the courts. Here are some of the best ways to upgrade your courts with custom graphics.
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School record boards are most often installed indoors, usually in the gym or athletic hallway. This is fine for sports that are played indoors, but creates a disconnect for sports that compete on fields and courts outside the building. Many fans and rival teams who attend sporting events never see the inside of the school. This is where an outdoor record board can be beneficial. It offers the opportunity to display records right where they’re broken, and where fans congregate.
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The athletic department at Island Coast High School in Cape Coral, FL put together a comprehensive project that included a record board for each sport. Not only were they thoughtful about different sports and their various records, Island Coast was very deliberate in the way they displayed the boards.
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