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The Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission has named Mike Sharpe as the organization’s next president and chief executive officer beginning on January 4, 2021. Sharpe has spent the past seven years at Greater Kansas City Sports Commission and Foundation as the director of business development. Sharpe has extensive connections with national governing body leadership including […]
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The Spikeball Roundnet Association has released its 2021 tournament schedule with 10 national events scheduled throughout the country. The national events will be held in a two-day format in the advanced and premier divisions with smaller pools of teams and best-of-3 matches, with the best teams in each pool earning spots in the divisional brackets. […]
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The Big West Conference will move the 2021 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships, presented by Hawai’i Tourism Authority, to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas from March 9–13 with all 10 men’s and nine women’s teams participating in a bubble-like environment. The Mandalay Bay Events Center is home to the WNBA’s Las Vegas […]
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The city of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, will be receiving a $2 million state grant toward creating a youth baseball and softball complex as part of the Williamsport Ballpark project, a seven-field athletic complex that would have construction starting in 2021. Plans for the complex have been in the works for most of 2020 after a different […]
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The Great Lakes Sports Commission has agreed to provide a $55,000 grant to the Ishpeming Ski Club in Michigan to help them complete their iconic Suicide Bowl ski venue improvement project. The proposed project is part of a five-year plan to improve and modernize the venue, developing it into a regional ski jumping and Nordic […]
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Little League International has made two executive promotions focused on supporting local programs, elevating Dan Velte to Senior Operations Executive and Nina Johnson-Pitt to Senior Strategy Executive. The moves were made as part of November’s plan by the board of directors to strengthen the organizational structure of Little League International with a new operational and […]
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The Hi-Five Sports Zone has opened at North Point Mall in Alpharetta, Georgia, becoming the first indoor sports facility within a retail mall in the state of Georgia. The new facility offers a variety of youth sports opportunities within 7,400 square feet of a former H&M store. It boasts an indoor turf field, two basketball […]
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Ben Snyder has joined the Grand Junction Sports Commission as executive director after spending the past five years at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and as president of the Corporate Games USA. Snyder’s previous experience includes being manager and director of corporate development of the World Police and Fire Games. A native of […]
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The Southeast Tourism Society and Huddle Up Group have announced a new industry partnership to establish sports tourism consulting services to assist and support destinations that are looking to expand sports tourism efforts in their communities. Both organizations are dedicated to promoting and preserving sports recreation opportunities at tourism destinations. Huddle Up Group provides organizations […]
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The inaugural season for the Athletes Unlimited Volleyball league will take place at Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas, Texas, with play scheduled to go from February 27 through March 29. The 30-match season, with 22 of the matches on either CBSSN or FS2, was originally scheduled to be at the Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee […]
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