2026 Conference – Call for Submissions

The ASMA conference will be held Feb. 11-13, 2026, hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. For information about the conference and ASMA, please visit: http://appliedsportmanagement.org/

Submissions may include empirical research, case studies, conceptual/theoretical work, and teaching-related presentations. Submissions to the ASMA conference should not be concurrently submitted to another conference or have been previously presented at a conference. The deadline for submissions is Friday, November 7th, 2025.

For general inquiries, please email appliedsportmanagement@gmail.com. You may also contact ASMA President Adam G. Pfleegor (apfleegor@siena.edu), ASMA President-Elect Khirey B. Walker (kwalker8@elon.edu), or Conference Director Liz Taylor (elizabeth.taylor@temple.edu).

General Submission Guidelines:

• Authors’ names should not appear on more than two submissions, regardless of co-authorship or type of presentation. An exception is made for authors who are serving as an advisor to a student who is submitting research; when listing authorship, the advisor should be clearly identified with the word “advisor” in parenthesis after their name.
• Submissions will be accepted in the following categories:
  • Oral and poster presentations
  • Student research competition (graduate & undergraduate)
  • Works in progress (deadline Jan. 7, 2026)
• All submissions should be submitted via the EasyChair link.

Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation Guidelines:

• To ensure anonymous review, do not place author names or affiliations in the abstract document.
• Please clearly indicate your preferred presentation format: (a) oral presentation or (b) poster presentation. Due to space and time limitations, some submissions may be offered a poster presentation in lieu of an oral presentation.
• Abstracts are limited to 500 words (including references). The abstract should include text only (no tables/figures). Any citations should be accompanied by a corresponding reference at the end of the abstract.
• Given the applied focus of the conference, authors should make sure to specifically discuss the implications of the research for practitioners in sport.

Graduate Student Research Competition:

• In order to be considered for the graduate student research competition, students must:
  • Be an active/current graduate student at the time of the conference.
  • Prepare an abstract for an oral presentation following the guidelines provided on the submission link.
  • Only single-author submissions with a faculty advisor will be accepted.
  • In addition to the abstract submission, students who wish to participate in the research competition should complete the authorship declaration form on the ASMA Website.
    • The abstract should be submitted via EasyChair, while the authorship declaration form should be submitted to Dr. Ben Downs (bjdowns@bsu.edu).
  • Three submissions will be selected as finalists, with a winner determined following oral presentations at the conference.
    • All three finalists will receive a $100 conference stipend (the equivalent of registration cost), while the winner will receive an additional prize of $200 and a plaque in recognition of the award. For questions about the student research competition, contact Dr. Ben Downs (bjdowns@bsu.edu).

Undergraduate Student Research Poster Competition:

• In order to be considered for the undergraduate student research poster competition, students must:
  • Be an active/current undergraduate student at the time of the conference.
  • Prepare an abstract for a poster presentation following the guidelines provided above.
  • Only single-author submissions with a faculty advisor will be accepted.
  • In addition to the abstract submission via EasyChair, students who wish to participate in the research competition should complete the authorship declaration form on the ASMA Website.
    • The abstract and declaration form should be submitted via EasyChair.
  • Three submissions will be selected as finalists, with a winner determined following poster presentations at the conference.
    • All three finalists will receive a $100 conference stipend, while the winner will receive an additional prize of $100 and a plaque in recognition of the award. For questions about the student research competition, contact Dr. Khirey Walker (kwalker8@elon.edu).

Works in Progress Guidelines:

• Submissions in this category require a document of approximately 1,000 words focused on either a research proposal, conceptual paper, or empirical work potentially targeted for submission to the Journal of Applied Sport Management (JASM) or other related journals in sport management.
  • Regarding JASM, authors can refer to the guidelines on the following site: https://trace.tennessee.edu/jasm/
• The goal of this component of the conference is to help interested faculty and/or students generate feedback or generally discuss literature, hypothesis or research questions, data collection/analysis, and theoretical possibilities. Likely, the works in progress discussion will involve the assignment to a group where all author(s) are expected to read each other’s documents.
• Managed by a senior scholar in sport management, author(s) will informally present their ideas and listen while others provide feedback about the document and its purposes, context, theoretical lens, etc.
• For questions about works in progress submissions, contact Dr. Chad Seifried (cseifried@lsu.edu).
• The deadline for works in progress submissions is January 7, 2026.