When this nearly 1,000-student school opened its new Chase Family Fitness Center in 2015, it expanded its goal to develop its students and staff spiritually, intellectually, socially and physically. Learn more about the new complex.

New technologies and manufacturing capabilities make it easier than ever to make space for sports programming that can continue rain or shine, year-round.

In this second of a two-part series, an aquatic expert walks us through some of the best things to do before the season begins to get an aquatic operation off to a smart start.

When Miami-Dade County saw growing demand for soccer programs, it turned to a partnership to provide what residents were looking for.

From engaging your community to getting the right team together, turning your land into a landscape that will draw visitors is a big task.

Multipurpose facilities like YMCAs and community recreation centers aim to please a wide array of members with diverse offerings. Here are some of the most recent trends in facility design for these wide-ranging facilities.

There's always something new in the fitness world, and fitness facilities must adapt to provide what customers want. Here's how to design your facility to meet the needs of your audience.

Fewer people have been showing up for games at colleges and universities, and so forward-thinking schools are designing new stadiums and facilities that provide more of what modern crowds are looking for.

Sometimes it seems like the gulfs that divide people—people of different cultures and beliefs, people from different backgrounds or locales, people with different levels of education or economic status—make it impossible to reach across and find commonality. But in this industry, where the whole point is helping people find their way into activities that support their wellness, their happiness, their sense of community—it doesn't take long to see how we are more alike than different.

As a college student majoring in Recreation and Park Administration (with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation) at Illinois State University, Carolyn Nagle's first "real" job in the recreation industry was directing the first summer day camp program for the Limestone Township Park District in Illinois.