Sport Management

The Department of Leisure and Sport Management welcomed home one of its own Friday as faculty, students and guests gathered in Holland House for Johnathan Harvey ’09, who returned to North Carolina last month from a four-month deployment to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The LSM Society raised $10,000 this fall by managing concessions for a PGA event in Cary, N.C., and by hosting a wheelchair basketball tournament.

Hal Walker, an associate professor of leisure and sport management, presented research in October at the International Academy of Business and Economics (IABE) conference in Las Vegas. The title of his presentation: “The Relationship between Psychological Commitment, Participation Frequency and Purchase Intention in Recreational Golfers.”

Professors and students in the Department of Leisure and Sport Management attended two conferences in recent months to present research related to technology, media and college choice decisions.

Tony Weaver, an assistant professor of leisure and sport management, has been appointed to the Professors Panel for the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators (NACMA). 

A leisure and sport management class raised $1,050 for the United Way of Alamance County by hosting two events in recent weeks.