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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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