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THEFIELD college sports TURBULENCE Commercial airline cost add-ons have shaken both institutional and NCAA travel budget
equipment needs we had forecasted for this year. So we were able to move some money, a line item in the equipment budget, over into travel.” Schools everywhere are sacri?cing. The University of
THEFIELD college sports athletic director Mike Clary told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Ohio State University chartered two planes to carry its football entourage to Los Angeles for a Septem
THEFIELD high school sports TGIF A shorter school week at Elgin (Ore.) High School has moved most sporting events to Fridays and Saturdays. PHOTO COURTESY OF ELGIN SCHOOL DISTRICT Strength of Sch
THEFIELD high school sports to be rediscovered every time we have an economic situation like the one we’re in now.” I n an AASA survey of 546 school districts released this summer, only
competitive, playing for the state football and volleyball championships last year. “Our coaches had to really adjust to the loss of practice time,” Ferguson says. “We have to be more prepared a
THEFIELD recreation Non-Inclusive Evidence AS BUDGETS TIGHTEN, RECREATION AGENCIES STRUGGLE TO TRULY ACCOMMODATE INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES. BY NICHOLAS BROWN MILE-HIGH HOPES Denver
division, which offers a wide range of individual and group programs for people with special needs, 85 to 90 percent of whom are young children with disabilities. “There are not a lot of therapeutic
THEFIELD recreation responsible, people are trying more to create inclusion in programs that are already set, and it is the generalists who are being tasked with providing the services,” says Sali
THEFIELD nonpro?ts HORSE SENSE Ride On Therapeutic Horsemanship is among the organizations bene?ting from the Sports Facilities Endowment Fund. PHOTO COURTESY OF RIDE ON IN NEWBURY PARK Money for
THEFIELD nonpro?ts approved the creation of a park maintenance and recreation improvement assessment district that adds about 11 percent ($1.4 million) annually to CRPD’s $12.5 million share of ci
the Y was given $12,000 for upgrades to soccer ?elds and baseball diamonds, and to construct bleachers and a storage shed. But that was after the committee subtracted the requests for equipment such
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