Sport management was acknowledged early in its formative years as an academic area with great potential for success in the academy. Due largely to the efforts of members of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), sport management quickly became entrenched in academe and is starting to be recognized as an academic area of merit. It is important to manage our overall program excellence as we move from “potential” to “merit” if sport management is to thrive as an academic discipline and profession. It is particularly important to mange our merit since our transition phase occurs amidst many changes and challenges (e.g., the student as consumer; under-representation of National Association for Sport and Physical Education/NASSM Approved Programs; under-recognition of sport management teaching excellence, and diminishing service roles and interests within industry and academe). The purpose of this essay is to posit approaches through which sport management’s educational programs might maintain their well-earned meritorious reputations amid shifting academic and social cultures. This essay is the text of the 2003 Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Lecture presented on May 30 at the 18th Annual Meeting of NASSM in Ithaca, New York.
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Managing Program Excellence during Our Transition from Potential to Merit
Jacquelyn Cuneen
Evaluating Kinesiology Faculty: Best Practices, Challenges, and Innovative Approaches
Philip E. Martin, Mary E. Rudisill, Bradley D. Hatfield, Jared Russell, and T. Gilmour Reeve
influence decisions such as promotions, reappointments, merit-based salary adjustments, and award nominations. Procedures for annual evaluations include the timing and period covered by the review, who is responsible for conducting assessments, documentation of activities reported by individual faculty, and
The Meritocracy Trap and Kinesiology
Gregg Twietmeyer and Tyler G. Johnson
made of this concept? Does “meritocracy” merit praise or scorn? How might a careful analysis of the possibilities and pitfalls of meritocracy be applied to kinesiology? One of the most interesting, perceptive, and nuanced recent analyses of meritocracy is Yale law professor Daniel Markovits’s book
Estimating Muscle Fiber-Type Composition in Elite Athletes: A Survey on Current Practices and Perceived Merit
Eline Lievens, Freek Van de Casteele, Fien De Block, Kim Van Vossel, Tom Vandenbogaerde, Gareth N. Sandford, Phillip Bellinger, Clare Minahan, Jan G. Bourgois, Trent Stellingwerff, Iñigo Mujika, and Wim Derave
tactical decisions, recovery optimization, and muscle injuries were discovered, emphasizing its importance in sports performance. 20 – 25 Nevertheless, it is unclear whether coaches and sport science/sport medicine (SSSM) staff see merit in knowing MFTC of their athletes. Moreover, little is currently
Exploring the Merits of Perceptual Anticipation in the Soccer Penalty Kick
John van der Kamp
This study investigated whether soccer penalty-takers can exploit predictive information from the goalkeeper’s actions. Eight low- and seven high-skilled participants kicked balls in a penalty task with the goalkeeper’s action displayed on a large screen. The goalkeeper initiated his dive either before, at or after the ball was struck. The percentage of balls shot to the empty half of the goal was not above chance when the participants could only rely on predictive information. Gaze patterns suggested that the need to fixate the target location to maintain aiming accuracy hindered perceptual anticipation. It is argued that penalty-takers should select a target location in advance of the run-up to the ball and disregard the goalkeeper’s actions.
Chapter 2: Reversing Policy Neglect in U.S. Physical Education: A Policy-Focused Primer
Hans van der Mars, Hal A. Lawson, Murray Mitchell, and Phillip Ward
might have experienced poor physical education during their formative education). Too many other factors and priorities influence their policy decisions. Nevertheless, they merit consideration because they constitute a formidable barrier to bringing about change in physical education through their
The Making of a College Athlete: High School Experiences, Socioeconomic Advantages, and the Likelihood of Playing College Sports
James Tompsett and Chris Knoester
indicators of high school sports participation predict the likelihood of playing a varsity sport in college. We consider a range of athletic involvement variables that indicate some measures of athletic merit (e.g., any high school sport participation, multisport participation, captaincies) as predictors of
Prevalence, Sociodemographic, and Health Correlates of Insufficient Physical Activity and High Sedentary Behavior Among Older Adults in Singapore
Seema Aithal, Abhijit Visaria, and Rahul Malhotra
older adult subgroups that merit closer attention from policy makers for promoting a healthier lifestyle. A meta-regression of cohort studies concluded that leisure-time physical activity, compared with occupational and transport-related physical activity was strongly associated with decreased mortality
Media Coverage of the Paralympics: Recommendations for Sport Journalism Practice and Education
Dunja Antunovic and Andrea Bundon
Coverage Sports journalists have a professional responsibility to cover the Paralympics and issues of disability for at least three reasons: (a) the Paralympics are an elite level, international sporting event, and thus merit sport-focused coverage, (b) sports journalists have an ethical obligation to
Chapter 6: Perspectives on the Future of Doctoral Programs
Murray F. Mitchell, Hal A. Lawson, Hans van der Mars, and Phillip Ward
primary responsibility for generating and interpreting the knowledge base for policy and practice. In these ways and others, doctoral education, doctoral faculty, and doctoral students influence the physical education system even as today’s system influences them. The D-PETE programs merit special
