FAHPERDS
Sport Association


Welcome Statement

On behalf of our leadership team, our current members, and the members we hope to cultivate, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the FAHPERDS home page for the Sport Association. The Sport Association is dedicated to serving its constituents in a variety of ways, in addition to enhancing the various disciplines within the FAHPERDS family, including health, physical education, recreation, dance, and educational leadership professionals. The Sport Association is committed to providing for its members – students and professionals – access to professionals at the state and national level, top quality programs, and ideas that can be implemented and combined with our other FAHPERDS disciplines. This includes important and timely information regarding the current status of our field, legislative initiatives, professional standards and guidelines, online services, information on state and national conferences, networking opportunities, job contacts, and scholarships and awards, to name just a few.

By way of introduction, the Sport Association seeks to serve those who serve the sport profession, or those involved in the “business” of sport, whether it be at the high school, recreational, college, or professional level. Although there is no such thing as a “typical” member, we do have a number of members involved in the field of “sport management” or “sport administration, including college professors and teachers. Sport management is a relatively new field, often with its genesis in physical education programs that either expanded or were phased out of university curricula. Therefore, many programs are housed in university schools of education. Others might be housed elsewhere such as in schools of business due to the focus on the business aspects of sport.

We also include sport managers serving in the sport industry as athletic directors, academic advisors, marketing directors, sport information personnel, etc. Of course, we also include coaches and teachers in our Association. To summarize, we welcome and encourage all sport professionals. Our Association is truly inclusive.

Membership and participation are valuable to the Associations’ efforts in continuing to promote the various professions, recruiting new members while retaining the current ones, and enhancing the experience of all we serve. Members can demonstrate their commitment to the Association by writing journal articles, serving on committees, holding office, attending and participating in conferences, and collaborating with other FAHPERDS associations. Members understand that growth from professional involvement is critical to enhancing skills, knowledge, dispositions, and promoting a positive image of the various professions and professional organizations such as FAHPERDS and its Sport Association. Involvement with the Sport Association allows its members to share ideas with one another, promote common goals and objectives, enhance communication, and demonstrate tolerance, understanding, and support of others. Thank for your interest, and we welcome you into our Association.



Mission/Purpose/Focus

The Sport Association is a quasi-autonomous subunit within the Florida Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance, and Sport. The Association is a state-based sport organization with the mission of serving its members through a variety of programs and advocacy efforts that enhance the various disciplines, professionals, and populations served in the areas of health, physical education, recreation, dance, and sport. The focus of the Association is to foster a holistic relationship with the Alliance to achieve the purposes and services specific to the areas of health, physical education, recreation, dance, sport, and educational leadership.

The Sport Association, one of several associations within the Alliance, enjoys the benefits of synergism, that is, its various components being enhanced by the complementation of other Associations. The strength of the synergistic relationship improves all components of the profession. The Sport Association’s hallmark lies in its interdependence within the Alliance. The Association enjoys the Alliance benefits of central executive leadership, central administration, central services to members, central support systems, a central governance structure, a structure for fostering collegial interactions, and a central platform to represent the holistic views of its members. Thus, communication between the Alliance and the Association is central to the Association’s full enhancement of interdependence and synergy.

The Sport Association has the capacity to contribute to the following goals contained in FAHPERDS Applied Strategic Plan:

1. To increase advocacy efforts;
2. To continue to support all health, physical education, recreation, dance, and educational leadership professionals to become active members;
3. To increase diversified external funds and improve profitability of program portfolios;
4. To increase and diversify membership services;
5. To create a more efficient/responsive organizational structure and governance system;
6. To plan programs and allocate resources to sustain public affairs, marketing, and fund development functions; and
7. To increase efficiency and effectiveness in the use of electronically based technology to enhance member services.

The Sport Association exists to aid in achieving the fundamental purpose of the Alliance, and to achieve purposes specific to various fields of study in the areas of health, physical education, recreation, dance, sport, and educational leadership and their missions with the Association.