If you are interested in being a 2025 NASPSPA Conference Sponsor or Exhibitor please see the details in each letter below and click this link for pricing details.
If you have any questions, please contact Executive Director Penny McCullagh (naspspaed@gmail.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Click Here to Submit a Conference Abstract
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. 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.
DUE DECEMBER 1, 2024
We are seeking proposals for pre-conference workshops for the 2025 NASPSPA conference in South Lake Tahoe. Conference workshops are typically on a specialized topic of interest to NASPSPA members and occur on the evening prior to the conference (i.e., June 2, 2025) from approximately 5-8pm. They are typically open to a limited number of people (typically upto 50) and the longer workshops have a cost associated with them (costs will be determined based on the costs charged to NASPSPA and the needs of the workshop, but historically have been approx. $50-60 per person). NASPSPA members who are interested in delivering a pre-conference workshop should email a proposal in a single pdf file with the following information to the Past President, Anne Cox, at naspspapp@gmail.com
- Workshop Title
- Name(s), affiliations, and email addresses of individual(s) who would deliver the workshop
- Describe the proposed workshop in no more than 500 words. Please address each of the following as applicable in your description:
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Background and purpose of the workshop
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Rationale for why the workshop is of interest to NASPSPA members
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Key workshop learning objectives
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Description of the workshop content/topics
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Interactive components of the workshop
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Any additional unique or significant aspects of the workshop
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Target audience (if other than all NASPSPA members)
In addition, please answer the following (not included in the 500 words):
- How many participants could your workshop accommodate? [up to 50 max]
- What sort of room set up would you need (e.g., just chairs, classroom setting with table and chair, round tables for discussion)?
- What is the proposed length of your workshop? [not to exceed 3 hours]
- Do you need any specific resources, technology, or equipment to deliver this workshop? [other than a projector and access
- to Power Point] If internet is required there may be an additional fee to cover this expense
- Disclosure of any conflicts of interest by the presenters
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.
