TABLE OF CONTENTS

ASBA’s Announces Two New Publications

ASBA’s Awards Program Now Accepting Entries Exclusive Survey: Coaches and ADs Weigh in on Athletic Facilities

Post-Tensioned Concrete Workshop Recap Winter Meeting Recap

FEATURES

Cricket, Once America’s National Sport, Now Vying for Olympic Inclusion

World Athletics Wants Cross Country Back in the Olympics

ASBA’s Multi-Generational Member Companies: Keeping

Our industry is one that is obsessed with the weather. We discuss it daily. Our livelihoods depend upon it. So much of our industry can suffer loss with bad weather. Acrylic coatings can wash out. Polyurethanes can foam and fail. Subgrades for paving and concrete and turf work can turn soft and unworkable in the presence of rain. Even oppressive heat and dryness can pose their own share of difficulties to all of the trades mentioned above.

As I write this column, I am watching a typical cold spring rain descend upon Tennessee. There will be no work today. Yet these same rains produce what we love about spring. Bulbs long dead in the ground break the surface of the earth and produce a glorious color display. Trees long since brown produce young green leafy growth. Our yards spring up, demanding weekly mowing to keep groomed. The dormancy and apparent death of winter is suddenly overcome with life and the promise of growth and gain.

ASBA took a break from the winter in early March to hold our annual winter meeting, this year in Cancun, Mexico. It was a wonderful respite from the northern winter. Temps were in the 80s; there was nary a drop of rain. 110 people gathered