Discover best practices for designing adaptable school sports facilities, including space-saving strategies, architectural solutions, and funding tips.

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Turn your plain brown or grey bleachers into a powerful branding platform with SportsGraphics’ bleacher step graphics! Many schools have found branding their facility helps to boost their programs image, school spirit, recruiting, team pride, and increase community engagement. Whether you are covering your bleachers in team colors or touting your school’s mascot or logo, bleacher step graphics can help you take your school branding to the next level.

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Before every sports season, you should thoroughly analyze your protective equipment — or lack thereof. In addition to creating a safe environment for your athletes and fans, the proper equipment can also create an electric atmosphere. This atmosphere will give you the home-field advantage and establish pride in your organization.

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When the new sports seasons start, it is so exciting that you may forget to take the time to make sure that your gymnasiums and fields are safe. Do a quick gym and field check to ensure you have covered all the safety pitfalls that can go unnoticed. Your athletes and fans will thank you, and your sports season can be all about winning and having fun as it should be.

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From bleacher enclosures to custom wall pads to wall decals, SportsGraphics has everything you need to build your school’s brand.

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Sunny days and slush mean one thing, as far as athletics are concerned: spring sports season is just beginning. With a great school branding setup and the prerequisite helping-and-a-half of school spirit, your students are sure to play at their best this year.

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As we covered in our school branding ideas blog “What Makes a Great School Mascot,” there’s a lot that goes into a great one, too, which makes it even more exciting to show your new design off. On top of all that, as school branding pros we can safely say that displaying your mascot proudly is a great way to get folks excited about your brand.

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Nearly every school has them, even though they come with inherent safety risks. We’re talking about bleachers. With their tiered rows, metal edges, and industrial appearance, bleachers can be both a safety concern and an eyesore in contrast to school gymnasiums decked out in logos and similar school-spirit-boosting attire. Perhaps that’s why many of us don’t remember our school’s bleachers all-too-fondly – if you remember them at all. If you do remember them fondly, it’s probably because you used to break the rules and play underneath them during recess or sporting events, which hopefully never resulted in any nasty injuries.

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37 years ago, Paul Simon released a song called “Slip Slidin’ Away.” It was a great recording, but it’s an awful sensation.

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A large number of school buildings were built in the fifties and sixties and will require immediate attention very soon. One third of urban schools are more than fifty years old.

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