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Public Relations/Outreach

Betty Weibel is inalizing details for articles to appear in

partner organizations’ publications including the National

Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the

NCAA Sport Science Institute (SSI), and the American College

of Sports Medicine (ACSM). In another initiative, Jon Metzler,

AASP’s Strategic Liaison, along with our Executive Director,

Kent Lindeman, recently represented AASP at the Joint

Commission on Sports Medicine & Science Annual Meeting.

Jon served with leaders from multiple ields on a panel

entitled, Collegiate Sports in the 21st Century: Sports as Public

Health, A Strategic Focus on Mental Health. Jon will continue

to represent AASP at meetings with the goal of strengthening

AASP’s relationships with strategic partners.

Finally, AASP would like to thank the Graduate Coalition for

their continued efforts to enhance the training of professionals

in sport psychology. The work of the Coalition played an

inluential role in many of the strategic plan initiatives related to

graduate training, and we fully support the Graduate Coalition

Legal Title Group as they petition state boards to protect legal

titles related to sport psychology. Having protected titles tied

to CC-AASP would provide protection for our clients as well

as our ield. As we strengthen our certiication, we need

to consider issues such as this, as well as ways to make

the certiication process and outcome more appealing to

practitioners. There is room for improvement as only a small

percentage of full-time practitioners serving in agencies that

have embraced sport psychology (less than 20% in Major

League Baseball and 45% in NCAA institutions) are CC-AASP.

In closing, it is promising to see such great work being

conducted across our Association that is already aligned

with the vision of our 2016-2018 Strategic Plan. I look forward

to seeing other initiatives come to fruition, and I hope to see

everyone at the Arizona Grand Resort for our 31st Annual

Conference in sunny Phoenix, September 28th to October 1st.

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