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Every year, professional, collegiate and high school level teams across the country compete in conference tournaments with their peers to see which will take home the championship win for that season. Some of their biggest rivals are within that very same conference that joins them together. Walk into nearly any gym in the nation and you’ll find banners paying respect to the local conference.

A gymnasium is a perfect place to fill with tons of people. The most obvious use of a gym is for athletic events, but they can also be used as general assembly spaces for other events. The problem with a gymnasium is that the space is huge with high walls and long viewing distances. Too often gyms have large bare walls or cluttered collections of non-matching signs and banners. Often any decoration that goes up in a gym is done individually without much thought to the layout of the full space. It seems facilities love to surround their scoreboard with advertisements, hang banners in the top corners behind the fans, and cram undersized championship recognition into one corner that is difficult to read.

Windscreen banners can make a big impact at outdoor fields and athletic facilities. That was exactly what Urbana University of Urbana, OH was looking for when they reached out to Team Fitz Graphics. The Blue Knights of Urbana were interested in pumping up the look of their baseball and softball fields. The two components that were most important to Larry Cox, Athletic Director, were quality design and a well-built product.