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Sports Planning Guide spoke with Shaun Keough, director of events for Traveling Teams, the leading provider of hotel accommodation services for youth sports teams and event directors. We asked Shaun about Traveling Teams’ history, unique position within the sports planning world and where he foresees the industry going.
We’re really great at football. We have our State 7 on 7 championship that’s been here since 1998. We’re also strong in basketball and soccer. And now we’re really looking to grow beyond the typical sports in to other areas. Lacrosse has shown an interest in our area.
Less than 10 years ago, Sam Haynes, managing director of The 10 Academy in Irvine, California, found himself struggling with his place in life.
New to this country, Haynes bounced around multiple colleges in an attempt to find his proper footing as a soccer player.
Even the most meticulous of planners often find their lives in a position they weren’t expecting thanks to the capriciousness that is the human condition.
For 2018 National Association of Sports Commissions Hall of Famer Gary Alexander, his life trajectory has taken him to places he never anticipated when he was a humble gymnast growing up in Colorado.
Nancy Hobbs may stand a compact 4-foot-11 and weigh a slight 100 pounds, but in the world of trail running, she is a giant.
Trail running, a sport or activity which, appropriately, consists of running or hiking over trails, is one of the fastest growing outdoor sports in the country, with roughly 1,900 races taking place annually in the United States.
In June of 2017, Mount San Antonio College, a community college in the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut, California, was awarded the prestigious 2020 United States Olympic track and field trials.
For Olympic organizing committee chairperson Bob Seagren, this was a major coup for his alma mater, and the beginning of a long road ahead.