Sports Reports

Open Water Swimming: Beautifully Dangerous

While open water swimming is a beautiful sport that takes the utmost athleticism and determination to conquer, it is no secret that open water swimming has more potential dangers than regulation pool swimming. However, with planners working together to form well thought out contingency plans, routes, and safety measures, open water swimming can go off without a hitch. 

Snohomish County: The Ultimate Combination of Sports, Food, and Family

The Snohomish County Sports Commission exists to better serve you! Our team can assist with a variety of services to make your event a success, everything from event logistics, funding opportunities and volunteer recruitment to hotel accommodations, marketing and connections to other local resources.

Brain Games Expanding Planner Agendas

Brain games geared towards middle and high schoolers are changing the sports world as we know it. As a result, planners are now attempting to add these games to their rosters annually. But what is a brain game, and how do you plan one? Our editor, Summer Abston, dove into the world of brain games for our most recent issue to seek out the answers to these questions and more.

America’s Pastime Remains Strong

Baseball continues to be a favorite sport to play or watch, and there is still an intense desire among young athletes to participate in the game.

Motorsports: A Major Draw For Fans

NASCAR and IndyCar Series draw tens of thousands of fans to watch high-speed action and hear the roars of uber-horsepower engines flying around tracks from the Southeast to the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast.

Taekwondo: Building on Strength

Taekwondo is about much more than merely fighting skills and martial arts techniques. It’s systematic and scientific, engaging the mind as well as the body.

Playing for Kicks! Footgolf popularity sweeps U.S.

Several versions of footgolf, a sport that combines soccer and golf, had been kicked around in various European countries for about 20 years—Switzerland in the late ’80s, Scandinavia in the ’90s—before being introduced in the United States through the American FootGolf League (AFGL). 

It was a simple …