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Dr. Dianna P. Gray
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 inclu
de sport marketing, athlete involvement, 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 a number of National Governing Bodies are among the various sport organizations for which she has served as a consultant. Dr. Gray is also on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators and has served as a sport management curriculum consultant.
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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 Sport & Exercise Science 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 marketing and management. During his 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 United States Olympic Committee and NGBs, Qatar Olympic Committee, Bahrain Olympic Committee, China Sport Industry Association, 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. .
Professor Linda A. Sharp, J.D.
Professor Sharp received her juris doctorate from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and practiced corporate law in Ohio for seven years. She then did doctoral study at Kent State Un
iversity in the areas of Sport Management, Higher Education Administration and Sociology. She taught at Indiana University for seven years and is now in her twelfth year at the University of Northern Colorado. Professor Sharp has written a monograph entitled Sport Law for the National Organization of Legal Problems in Education (now Education Law Association). She has also co-authored a monograph entitled Camps on Campus. She has also contributed frequently to the journals Sport Marketing Quarterly and Athletic Business.
Linda Sharp has lectured extensively on legal topics related to sport, recreation, and physical activity throughout her career. She has been a speaker at the Stetson University National Conference on Law and Higher Education on eight occasions and has presented several risk management workshops for school districts in Indiana. She has presented at the Athletic Business Conference, at the NCAA Lifeskills Conference and presented a webinar on risk management issues in collegiate sport. She has also spoken numerous times at the national conferences of NASSM (North American Society of Sport Management) and SRLA (Sport and Recreation Law Association). Professor Sharp is a former President of SRLA. Her lecture and workshop topics include: social networking issues related to student-athletes, exculpatory agreements in educational sport, liability issues related to coaching, employment law issues including negligent referral, liability related to the eating-disordered athlete, negligent misrepresentation issues in education, contract issues in athletics including coaching contracts, liability concerns and the felonious student-athlete, educational hindrance claims, the Equal Pay Act and coaches, medical concerns of college athletes, and liability issues related to on and off campus sports and recreational activities. She has also presented workshops that deal with comprehensive risk management strategies in athletic and recreational sport programs.
Dr. James Gould
James Gould is an assistant professor in Recreation and Tourism. He earned his BIS and MS 
degrees from Georgia Southern University and his PhD from Clemson University.
His interests include adventure special events, environmental ethics, and documentary film production. Gould’s research agenda includes the psychometric analysis of committed leisure behavior, the exploration of passive leisure consumption, and Olympic development.
James Gould developed the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) to quantitatively assess the degree of commitment participants possess in specific leisure pursuits. Since its publication, the SLIM has been used for dissertation work among doctoral students in Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Utilizing the newly developed measure, James Gould has worked with HawkWatch International in their efforts to predict and recruit citizen scientists necessary for the documentation of migratory patterns of birds of prey.
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