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- NASPSPSA University Sponsor Letter 2025
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- NASPSPSA University Exhibitor Letter 2025
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Dr. Ketra L. Armstrong is a University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor at the University of Michigan (UM). She is a Professor of Sport Management, Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport, and Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the School of Kinesiology at UM. She is an Affiliate Faculty in the UM Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also serves as UM’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative.
Her scholarship converges on the topics of race, gender, and the social psychology of sport/leisure consumption and the management/leadership thereof. Her research has been featured in various journals, she has delivered numerous presentations, keynote addresses, workshops, and webinars related to her research, and she is a member of the Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.
She narrated and co-Executive Produced Title IX: Implications for Women in Sport and Education (a 3-Disc, 14-chapter DVD), and the Michigan Emmy-nominated video, “Sport as an Agent for Change.” She is a former NCAA Division I scholarship student-athlete, coach, and athletic administrator, and former President of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport.
Michelle Segar, Associate Research Scientist, is an award-winning, NIH-funded researcher at the University of Michigan with almost thirty years studying how to help people adopt exercise and physical activity in ways that cultivate positive affective experiences and can be sustained within the unpredictability of the real world. Her physical activity research is widely recognized as pioneering and
pragmatic. She has advised the World Health Organization on global physical activity initiatives and was selected to be the inaugural chair of the United States National Physical Activity Plan’s Communication Committee. Michelle’s training and experience is uniquely comprehensive, including a doctorate in Psychology (PhD), a master’s degree in Health Behavior/Health Education (MPH), a
master’s degree in Kinesiology (MS), fellowships in translational research and health care policy from the University of Michigan, and she is a Fellow within the Society of Behavioral Medicine (FSBM). Michelle has been coaching individuals in adopting physically active lives for over two decades and has written two critically acclaimed books about how to cultivate sustainable change, No Sweat and The
Joy Choice. In this presentation, Michelle will use a science-based graphical story to explain why our global promotion of exercise and physical activity has failed and the leading role that positive affective experiences need to play if we are to finally succeed at increasing sustainable participation across individuals, communities, and populations.
pragmatic. She has advised the World Health Organization on global physical activity initiatives and was selected to be the inaugural chair of the United States National Physical Activity Plan’s Communication Committee. Michelle’s training and experience is uniquely comprehensive, including a doctorate in Psychology (PhD), a master’s degree in Health Behavior/Health Education (MPH), a
master’s degree in Kinesiology (MS), fellowships in translational research and health care policy from the University of Michigan, and she is a Fellow within the Society of Behavioral Medicine (FSBM). Michelle has been coaching individuals in adopting physically active lives for over two decades and has written two critically acclaimed books about how to cultivate sustainable change, No Sweat and The
Joy Choice. In this presentation, Michelle will use a science-based graphical story to explain why our global promotion of exercise and physical activity has failed and the leading role that positive affective experiences need to play if we are to finally succeed at increasing sustainable participation across individuals, communities, and populations.
Nici Wenderoth is a Professor of Neural Control of Movement in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2020, she has also served as the Director of the Future Health Technologies research programme, a large-scale interdisciplinary initiative at the Singapore-ETH Centre. Nici’s lab explores how the human brain controls motor behavior, acquires new skills, and adapts flexibly to changing environments, utilizing cutting-edge neuroimaging, (electro)physiology, and psychophysics. Based on these insights, her team develops advanced neurofeedback and brain stimulation paradigms to enable self-regulation of brain states and modulation of neural functions. While her work is grounded in fundamental Systems Neuroscience, her team is dedicated to translating these findings into practical applications in neurorehabilitation, mental health, and enhancing performance under pressure.
Anthony Okely is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health and NHMRC Leadership Fellow in at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Professorship at Western Norway University. He is co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Children’s Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity. His research focuses on movement behaviours (physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) in children, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries. Anthony has led teams that developed national 24-hr Movement Guidelines in Australia and provided mentorship for similar guidelines in South Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. He has consulted for WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank on a number of projects related to children’s physical activity. He currently leads an international study of movement behaviours in the early years called SUNRISE, which involves 65 countries, 48 of which are low- or middle-income. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles which have been cited over 40,000 times. He has a h-index of 96. He has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2021.
Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University. Dr. Latimer-Cheung’s research and knowledge mobilization activities promote quality physical activity for persons experiencing disability. Amy is the Director and Principal Investigator leading the Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0 (CDPP 2.0). CDPP 2.0 is a research partnership
of more than 75 researchers and sport, exercise and active play organizations working collaboratively to create quality experience in sport, exercise and active play for children, youth and adults experiencing disability. In recognition of her excellence in research, Amy was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. Dr. Latimer-Cheung is committed to mobilizing her
research into practice. She led the development of the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults with Multiple Sclerosis and contributed to the development of ten other sets of national movement behaviour guideline. Amy is member of ParticipACTION’s Research Advisory Group, the national organization shaping Canada’s physical activity agenda. Dr. Latimer-Cheung is a founding Board
Member and the current Executive Co-Director of Revved Up, a community-based exercise program for adults experiencing disability.
of more than 75 researchers and sport, exercise and active play organizations working collaboratively to create quality experience in sport, exercise and active play for children, youth and adults experiencing disability. In recognition of her excellence in research, Amy was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. Dr. Latimer-Cheung is committed to mobilizing her
research into practice. She led the development of the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults with Multiple Sclerosis and contributed to the development of ten other sets of national movement behaviour guideline. Amy is member of ParticipACTION’s Research Advisory Group, the national organization shaping Canada’s physical activity agenda. Dr. Latimer-Cheung is a founding Board
Member and the current Executive Co-Director of Revved Up, a community-based exercise program for adults experiencing disability.
Dr. Christopher Janelle is Senior Associate Dean in the College of Health and Human Performance, as well as Professor and Director of the Performance Psychology Laboratory in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at the University of Florida. His widely cited research focuses on the emotion and attention mechanisms underlying human motor performance and health. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters in these areas, and he co-authored the Handbook of Sport Psychology. Dr. Janelle’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association among other foundations and agencies, and he has presented his research widely at national and international meetings. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, Human Movement Science, and the International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 47) and the National Academy of Kinesiology (Fellow #604). In addition to his scholarly work, Chris has served as a performance consultant to collegiate, Olympic, professional, and youth sport athletes.
Dr. Lisa M. Barnett is a Professor in Physical Activity and Health at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University, Australia. Her internationally leading work focuses on developing ways to measure and improve physical literacy via partnerships with industry and researchers from multiple countries. She has a particular focus on actual and perceived motor skills and is the number one researcher in the world in motor skills (Expertscape). Lisa developed the pictorial scale for Perceived Movement Skill Competence in 2016, used in 35 countries. In 2019, she co-led the development of the Australian Physical Literacy Definition and Framework. In 2021, she led development of an innovative pictorial tool to measure children’s physical literacy for the Australian Sports Commission, now
requested by researchers from 52 universities in 22 countries. She is Past President of the International Motor Development Research Consortium and co-leads the Physical Literacy Special Interest Group for the Asia Pacific Society of Physical Activity. She has 225+ peer reviewed publications with over 11K citations (Scopus). Since 2020 she has been in the top 2% of cited researchers in the world (Stanford
University). She has a long-standing involvement with NASPSPA, her first attendance in 2010.
requested by researchers from 52 universities in 22 countries. She is Past President of the International Motor Development Research Consortium and co-leads the Physical Literacy Special Interest Group for the Asia Pacific Society of Physical Activity. She has 225+ peer reviewed publications with over 11K citations (Scopus). Since 2020 she has been in the top 2% of cited researchers in the world (Stanford
University). She has a long-standing involvement with NASPSPA, her first attendance in 2010.
The abstract submission portal for the 2025 NASPSPA Conference opens December 15, 2024 and will remain open through Wednesday, January 15, 2025 (Midnight Pacific Time). Information about submitting a conference abstract is below. This information, along with step-by-step instructions can be downloaded in Word format here. When you are ready to submit your abstract, please click this link.
Conference Abstract Submission Information
- Membership: You must be a current NASPSPA member to submit your abstract. The abstract submission process requires you to login with your active membership credentials to start the process. NASPSPA memberships run on the calendar year and renewals that are made after October 1 are automatically credited for the subsequent calendar year. You can update your membership here. Be sure to update at least one day before submitting abstract.
- Authorship: An individual may be the first author on no more than two submitted abstracts (inclusive of verbal and poster presentations) each year. Additional information regarding Ethical Guidelines and the use of Non-Discriminatory Content is available in Section 2C “Guidelines for abstract submission and presentations” in the NASPSPA Policy Manual.
- Presentation types: Verbal and poster presentations and symposia will be accepted. Detailed information about presentation format will be forthcoming, but generally speaking, verbal presentations will be 12 minutes with 3 minutes for questions, and posters will be physical (paper, or similar) posters displayed on poster boards in a conference meeting room. Symposia are a collection of verbal presentations that are submitted together as a single submission. We welcome inter-disciplinary symposia across the three areas of NASPSPA (SEP, MLC, MD). You have the option of indicating your preference for a verbal or poster presentation when you submit your abstract. The same scientific and formatting content rules apply when preparing abstracts for verbal or poster presentations.
- Scientific content: Data-based, theoretical, or research review papers that have not been previously published in an archival scientific publication or presented elsewhere at a national or international conference are eligible for submission.
- Formatting content:
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- Length: All abstracts (regardless of whether you are submitting for a verbal or poster presentation) have a maximum length of 350 words. To check the number of words in your draft in Word, select your abstract text (do not include any title or author information), click on the “Review” tab in the header, then select “Word Count”. This will give you a pop-up window with the statistics of your highlighted text.
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- Body: The abstract body should not include section headings (i.e., Introduction, Methods, etc.), the title, or author information.
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- Title: Only the first letter, first letter after a colon or sentence-ending punctuation, and acronyms/names should be capitalized in the title.
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- Example: Click here for an example of an appropriately formatted abstract.
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- Where/how to submit: To submit your abstract, click on the link below.
- Troubleshooting: If you have issues submitting your abstract, please contact our webmaster (Joel Barnes) at j@barnzilla.ca.
We welcome symposia submissions for the NASPSPA conference. Symposia should be organized around a theme with a logical connection between speakers and/or a discussant to bring things together. Interdisciplinary symposia are especially encouraged as is representation from multiple universities/labs within a single symposium.
An ideal format is a short introduction, three speakers, and a discussant, but this is not mandatory. A symposium must be submitted as a single submission by the person organizing the symposium, by using the link below. The symposium organizer should collect all of the abstracts from the speakers who will comprise the symposium (including an abstract for the introduction) and submit them by the normal abstract submission deadline (January 15, 2025). If your symposium is not accepted, you will be given the opportunity to submit the symposium content as individual abstracts. Please contact Past President Anne Cox with any questions about symposia at naspspapp@gmail.com.
Registration rates will remain similar to last year. Students be sure to check out opportunities for assistance through the Ambassador program (see Student Column). Registration will open in December.
| By April 1 | By May 1 | By May 15 | After May 15 | |
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| Students | 250 | 300 | 350 | 450 |
| Post Docs | 275 | 325 | 375 | 475 |
| Professional | 450 | 500 | 550 | 650 |
| Retirees | 325 | 375 | 425 | 525 |
| Non-members | 600 | 650 | 700 | 750 |
- Our conference site this year is at Harrahs and Harveys in Stateline Nevada which is on the boarder between Nevada and California. The hotels are joined by an underground walkway. We are working on getting our link active and will open our rooms in early December (or before). An email announcement will go out to everyone to book their rooms!!! Please try to stay at the conference hotels since we guarantee them a certain block of rooms. We have really inexpensive rooms (less than $100) for Monday June 2 staying until Friday June 6. On the weekends the rates are much higher. We have sleeping rooms at both Harrahs and Harveys but Harrahs has two full bathrooms in each room so great for sharing!
- It is easiest to fly into Reno and then take a one hour shuttle to the site and costs about $60 roundtrip. Once you arrive at the hotel it is quite walkable to get to restaurants and other sites nearby. If you want to tour around Lake Tahoe you will need a car (https://southtahoeairporter.com/ ). I am working on getting discounted rates. You can also fly into Sacramento and rent a car for a 2-hour drive, Oakland for a 4-hr drive or San Francisco for a 4 ½-hr drive. If you can, take advantage of visiting some beautiful sites in the area.
