Congratulations to Pat Ivey, strength and conditioning coach at the University of Missouri, for being name the 2013 FootballScoop Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year presented by ProGrass. Ivey is coauthor of HK’s Complete Conditioning for Football.

Congratulations to Rick Trickett, Florida State University (FSU) offensive line coach, on FSU’s 2014 BCS National Championship. Trickett is author of HK’s Complete Offensive Line.

Congratulations to 2014 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Ray Guy. The former Oakland Raiders punter will be the first pure punter ever in the Hall of Fame. Guy is the author of Football Kicking and Punting.

Congratulations to Hannah Teter, author of Mastering Snowboarding, on her fourth-place finish in the ladies’ halfpipe finals at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Cathy Utzschneider, author of the upcoming Mastering Running, has been setting a blazing pace so far this year. She placed second in the 55-59 female age group of the 6K run at the 2014 USA Cross Country Championships in Boulder, Colorado, in February. She won the 3,000-meter run in the women’s 55-to-74 female age group at the 2014 USATF Indoor Championships in March in Boston, Massachusetts.

No team wins a Super Bowl without great support. Congratulations to Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, a nutrition consultant for the Seattle Seahawks and author of Power Eating for playing a part in the team’s victory.

Daniel Trink came to the Champaign campus of Human Kinetics to oversee a photo and video shoot for his upcoming book High-Intenisty 300. From February 28 to March 3, seven models, HK’s photo and video crew, and the book’s editorial team were in the studio from 7:00 to 5:00 shooting both still photos and video. On Sunday they used the facilities at the YMCA while it was closed to the public.

Bill Foran has been named one of top strength and conditioning coaches in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Foran, strength and conditioning coach for the Miami Heat since 1989, was the cofounder of the National Basketball Conditioning Coaches Association (NBCCA) in 1992. The NBCCA authored HK’s Complete Conditioning for Basketball, for which Foran served as editor.