Author: Jason Gewirtz

Jason Gewirtz is the editor and publisher of SportsTravel. He has worked at the magazine in various roles since 2008, including as managing editor and editor. He is a former member of the Sports ETA board of directors.
KC Current Training Center
The new training center for the KC Current is 17,000 square feet and includes a weight room, lockers, kitchen, recovery room and three fields that soon be expanded to 10. (Photos by Jason Gewirtz)

Women’s Soccer Rides the Current in Kansas City

The NWSL team in Kansas City is called the Current, an apt name for a franchise directing the movement of women’s sports and carving a path for professional teams and destinations with their own ambitions. The proof of that can be found in the team’s recently opened $17 million, privately financed, 17,600-square-foot training center, which […]

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Phil Andrews: The Future of USA Fencing Events

Phil Andrews is credited with making multiple changes for the better over a decade of service at USA Weightlifting, including the past six years as chief executive officer, and overseeing an elite team that at the Tokyo Olympics took home its first Olympic silver in women’s weightlifting. Among his challenges at the governing body was […]

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Elite Athletes Boost Bespoke Online Schooling 

It’s back-to-school season, but for more and more elite athletes that doesn’t mean schoolhouses or dorms. Instead, many are choosing a bespoke online education tailored around training, travel, and competition schedules. As its name implies, U.S. Performance Academy caters to elite athletes and enjoys a reputation as the school to attend if your athletic dreams include […]

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Infinity Park
Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado, was the first rugby-specific venue built in the United States. (Photos by Jason Gewirtz)

For One Small City, Rugby as Economic Development

Glendale, Colorado, is the kind of city that you’d never know you were in unless someone pointed it out. At 369 acres, the enclave that is home to about 5,000 mostly apartment-dwelling residents is surrounded on all sides by the city of Denver. For years, if you knew anything about Glendale, it might be as […]

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National Council of Youth Sports to
Meet in Conjunction with TEAMS

The National Council of Youth Sports has announced that its annual board meeting will be co-located with the TEAMS ’22 Conference & Expo. Presented by SportsTravel and hosted by the Oklahoma City Convention & Visitors Bureau, TEAMS ’22 — the world’s largest gathering for the sports-event industry — will be held in Oklahoma City, October […]

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