The Globalization of Intercollegiate Athletics: Challenges, Opportunities, and Advice for Those Seeking to Emulate the U.S. Model of College Sport

Abstract

This special issue targets an audience of scholars and practitioners across the globe to advance research, enhance practice, and facilitate policy-making decisions among those interested in emulating and/or learning from US intercollegiate athletics. We begin with a panel of practitioners and academics who comment directly on the discussion of the globalization of intercollegiate athletics. Together with the articles included in this issue, those interested in the advancement, fortification, reform, and development of global intercollegiate athletics can draw upon a variety of critical perspectives and hundreds of years of combined experience in the field. Panelists in this dialogue include a variety of experiential lenses, institutional affiliations, and oversight responsibilities. Current and former titles include those of coach, president/chancellor, director of athletics, professor, senior woman administrator, faculty athletics representative, consultant, and NCAA chief executive officer. Through these lenses, our panelists tackle questions that emerged through foundational literature and global dialogue.