Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award
Please read the full instructions below before starting your application.
Effective as of the 2026 Awards Cycle
Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award applications are submitted online through the Cadmium platform.
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After you press "save application" upon completing all components of the application, please click the "submit" button at the top right of the screen to move your application from Active to Completed status. The action of clicking "submit" will prompt the system to email the applicant a confirmation of the submitted application. Clicking "submit" is the final step to submit your award application for consideration. Award nominees with a sponsor will be required to invite their sponsor to certify the nomination in Cadmium prior to final submission.
The Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award recognizes an Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) member who exemplifies the sport and performance psychology (SPP) scientist-practitioner model and demonstrates exceptional quality, innovation, and impact in their work. The Scientist-Practitioner model emphasizes the integration of scientific research and practical work, fostering a professional who is skilled in applying scientific methods to inform their applied practice and using real-world observations to inform innovative and meaningful research. The recipient receives a $1,000 cash award, a waived AASP Annual Conference registration fee in the year of the award, and a plaque presented at the conference.
Award Criteria and Submission Guidelines
Nominees must meet the following criteria:
- Demonstrating sustained involvement as SPP scientist-practitioner.
- Demonstrating the SPP scientist-practitioner model through quality, innovative, and impactful contributions to the integration of SPP science and applied practice.
- Scientific contributions through published research papers, professional practice papers that are theoretically relevant, describing novel ways of applying methods used to existing literature, translating research evidence to practice, etc.
- Contributions to applied practice through service provision to organization or university athletic or performance-related programs, continuous years of service provision with one or more performance-related populations, and/or provided mentorship to current or future applied sport and performance psychology practitioners, etc.
- Demonstrating their science-practice integration.
- Maintaining membership with AASP for 3 consecutive years at the time of application.
An AASP member must nominate the candidate for this award and serve as the candidate’s sponsor.
The application materials include:
- One letter of nomination describing in specific detail the achievements of the candidate in relation to the award criteria (3 pages maximum, signed by the sponsor)
- Two (2) letters of support for the candidate specifically describing the quality and impact of their scholarly practice services (2 pages maximum each).
- The candidate’s abbreviated curriculum vitae (6-10 pages maximum, demonstrating the award criteria)
- The Cadmium submission platform requires that the file uploads be in PDF format.
*Deadline for this award: April 15 of each year.
View a list of past Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award recipients
