SPORT

SPORT (Sport Psychology Organization and Research Team) is a student lead graduate organization developed to foster professional development within the field of sport and exercise psychology. Through collaborative student efforts, SPORT promotes the development of competent practitioners and academicians by facilitating student research (conference presentations and publications), promoting public outreach (local presentations, newspaper and magazine articles, and hosting conferences), and offering professional development workshops. By undertaking these projects, SPORT seeks to provide experience and create opportunities to help members prepare for future employment.

Members & Membership

• If you want to join our student organization, please contact us at sportpsychorg@gmail.com. We are always happy to accept new students and expand.
• Click here to view current members and bios.

Conferences & Events

SPEAR Conference 2012

Program of SPEAR Conference 2012

SPEAR Conference 2012 Schedule

Information of SPEAR Conference 2012 in Facebook page of FiT

Link to Fitness Information Technology (FiT)

The Sport Psychology Organization & Research Team (SPORT) is proud to announce the 4^th annual FSU SPEAR Conference, on February17th and 18th, 2012. This time, we invited international speakers to our conference.

This year’s conference theme is “Embracing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Arts, Sports, and Sciences”. The conference will focus on discussing humanrights, cross-cultural sensitivity, intercultural competence, gender identity, multilingualism, religious pluralism, artistic diversity, polyethnicity, racialequality, and lifespan integration. Scholars, students, professionals, athletes, musicians, and artists from various domains and diverse backgrounds will form a “cultural mosaic” rooted in both empirical and phenomenological knowledge.

SPEAR Conference 2011

SPEAR Conference 2011 Conference Overview Website

SPEAR 2011 Conference Program (PDF) 

The Sport Psychology Organization & Research Team (SPORT) is proud to announce the 3rd annual FSU SPEAR Conference, on February18th and 19th, 2011.

This year’s conference theme is Expertise Across Domains. The focus of the conference will be on examining the various topics related to expert performance in various domains (e.g., sports, education, fine arts, medicine, business and entertainment). Examples of some related topics are: developing experts, the process of recruiting, issues in defining, measuring and capturing expertise, working with gifted individuals, the nature-nurture debate, technology and the future of expertise.

SPEAR Conference 2010

SPEAR 2010 Conference Program (PDF)

The Sport Psychology Organization & Research Team (SPORT) would like to thank everyone that attended the 2nd Annual SPEAR Sport Science Conference. The conference was a success and a great learning experience for all. We had some great collaborative work from graduate students across different programs within Florida State and would like to thank all of them for their hard work. 
 
We would like to send a special thank you to all our key speakers in taking the time to share their expertise in their fields. Dr. John Lata (Florida State Director of Student-Athlete Service), Dr. Don Rapp (Expert on Gerontology and Creativity), Dr. Neil Charness (Professor of Cognitive Psychology), Dr. Lynn Panton (Professor of Exercise Physiology), Dr. Gershon Tenenbaum (Professor of Sport Psychology), Dr. Robert Eklund (Professor of Sport Psychology), and our 2010 Keynote speaker Mark Krikorian (Florida State Women’s Soccer Coach).
 
We would like to also thank our sponsors as well for providing donations which helped make our conference possible. Congress of Graduate Students(COGS; FSU), Starbuck Coffee, Costco, Sam’s Club, Gordo’s, and Warner Soccer.