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Bethany College recently completed the installation of a new multi-purpose floor inside the Thomas Phillips Johnson Health & Recreation Center. Sandwen Arena will reopen to Bethany students, faculty, staff and the Bethany Community on Friday, January 12 in the morning. The floor inside Sandwen Arena in the Recreation Center facility houses three courts and a three-lane Mondo track. The project was an overlay of the new surface overtop the existing floor of nearly 30,000 square feet. Read More

Saint Ambrose University is preparing to celebrate the latest addition to its campus in Davenport. On Friday, it will hold a blessing, dedication, and ribbon-cutting for its 20 million dollar Wellness and Recreation Center. The new center has a 56-thousand square foot fieldhouse with four basketball courts and a 200-meter indoor track, plus classrooms and weight rooms. Read More

Kiefer USA was more than happy to assist the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with installing new sports flooring in their Recreation Centers during the summer.

Featuring Kiefer USA Mondo flooring and indoor artificial turf The new state-of-the-art strength and conditioning center at Eastern Kentucky University features our Mondo flooring and indoor artificial turf! There is Mondo flooring throughout the weight room area.  The durable, anti-bacterial flooring maintains a clean look.  For added safety, the platforms are part of the floor, meaning no stepping onto or off the platforms.  The floor is soft enough to run on, but strong enough to withstand the impact of dropping weight.  For further safety, water, sweat and spills will not seep into the flooring and can be wiped dry quickly. Watch the video below to see what the Strength & Conditioning coach had to say. Watch Video  

Legendary swimmer and 1936 Olympic gold medalist Adolph Kiefer has passed away at the age of 98. Prior to his death, he was the oldest living American Olympic champion. Kiefer passed at his Illinois home at 6:00 in the morning on Friday, May 5. He was a month shy of his 99th birthday. The International Swimming Hall of Fame published a lengthy obituary today, recounting Kiefer’s legacy both in the pool and out. Kiefer suffered from neuropathy that kept him confined to a wheelchair late in his life, but he continued swimming, as he could still stand up in the water. The ISHOF notes that Kiefer had been hospitalized with pneumonia in recent months. Kiefer won the 100 meter backstroke at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record that would stand for 20 years. He was also the first man to break one minute in the 100 yard backstroke, doing so ...

Indoor track with Mondo Super X 720 surface Clemson University installed a state-of-the-art banked indoor track with Mondo’s Super X 720 surface in its Indoor Track & Field Complex. The Super X 720 surface was installed in the complex on a straightaway eight-lane sprint track, one high jump apron, two pole vault runways and two long and triple jump runways. Mark Elliott, Clemson’s head coach for men’s and women’s track & field and cross country, said Mondo is generally recognized as the fastest surface for indoor tracks. In particular, he said, coaches and athletes consider the indoor track at the University of Arkansas, which is a Mondo banked track, to be the fastest in the U.S. “Everyone wants to compete there, so we wanted to get a track like that one,” he said. “I wanted the track that is considered the fastest, and I think I’m getting that with our new Mondo ...