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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- David Crutchfield, marketing coordinator for The University of Alabama Student Recreation Center, recently received a first place award for a UA project from the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.

Crutchfield won the award for the University Recreation 2005-2006 Handbook in the graphic communications-comprehensive brochure category of the NIRSA Creative Excellence Awards competition.

Recognition of all first place awards in each category was presented at the 2006 NIRSA Annual Conference & Recreational Sports Expo in Louisville, Ky., during the honor award banquet last month.

NIRSA was started in 1950 by Dr. William Wasson who organized a meeting of 22 African-American men and women intramural directors from 11 historically black colleges at the first intramural conference at Dillard University in New Orleans. Participants at the conference formed the National Intramural Association.

Since then NIRSA, NIA's successor, has evolved into a dynamic professional association with thousands of members from colleges, universities, military installations, community recreation departments, corporations and correctional institutions. With the annual participation in recreational sports reaching well over 12 million, membership in NIRSA provides numerous opportunities for meaningful involvement at the local, state, national and international levels including instructing, research, presenting and publishing.

For more information, go to www.nirsa.org.