Dianna P. Gray, Professor, received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and had held faculty positions at Kent State and Indiana University. Her research and teaching areas include sport marketing, management, and media relations, and she is published in a variety of trade and scholarly journals. The Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Force, Women's Basketball Coaches Association, and Gus Macker Basketball are among the various sport organizations for which she has served as a consultant. Dr. Gray is also on the Advisory Board of the Women's Sports Foundation and has served as a sport management curriculum consultant.
Dr. David Stotlar
Dr. David K. Stotlar has a Doctor of Education degree from the University
of Utah and serves as the Director of the School of Kinesiology & Physical
Education at the University of Northern Colorado. He teaches on the faculty
in the areas of sport management and sport marketing. He has had more than
70 articles published in professional journals and has written more than
40 textbooks and book chapters in sport, fitness, and physical education.
During his long career Dr. Stotlar has given over 200 presentations and
workshops at national and international professional conferences. On several
occasions, he has served as a consultant in sport management to various
sport professionals; and in the area of sport marketing and sponsorship,
to multinational corporations and international sport managers. David was
selected by the USOC as a delegate to the International Olympic Academy
in Greece and the World University Games Forum in Italy and served as a
venue media center supervisor for the 2002 Olympic Games. He has
conducted international seminars in sport management and marketing for
the Hong Kong Olympic Committee, the National Sports Council of Malaysia,
Mauritius National Sports Council, the National Sports Council of Zimbabwe,
the Singapore Sports Council, the Chinese Taipei University Sport Federation,
the Bahrain Sport Institute, the government of Saudi Arabia, the South
African National Sports Congress and the Association of Sport Sciences
in South Africa. Dr. Stotlar’s contribution to the profession includes
an appointment as Coordinator of the Sport Management Program Review Council
(NASPE/NASSM) from 1999-2001. He previously served as Chair of the
Council on Facilities and Equipment of the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and as a Board Member and later
as President of the North American Society for Sport Management. Dr.
Stotlar was a member of the initial group of professionals inducted as
NASSM Research Fellows. He is also a founding member of the Sport Marketing
Association.
Linda A. Sharp received her B.A. from Baldwin Wallace College and her J.D. from Cleveland Marshall College of Law. She taught sport law, administrative theory, and public relations to both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Ms. Sharp lectures extensively in the area of sport law. She has presented at six National Organization on Legal Problems of Education National Conventions . In 1991, she was a presenter at the Legal Quadrivium at AAHPERD's National Convention. Ms. Sharp published a monograph entitled Sport Law in 1990 and has written the chapter on "Sport Law" for NOLPE'S Yearbook of Education Law for the years 1989 through 1994. Most recently, she prepared the supplemental material for the chapter on Tort Liability found in the Legal Deskbook for Administrators of Independent Colleges and Universities (2nd Edition).
