In the latest edition of the Sports Innovation Journal, the editing staff called out for a special issue focused on the current state and future of governance in intercollegiate athletics. With Name, Image, Likeness coming to the forefront, the college athletics landscape has changed, and we called for researchers to provide us their studies focused… Read more »
by The SII Team On March 4-5, the IU Indianapolis Sports Innovation Institute and the Monon Development Group collaborated to develop creative and innovative concepts that could be included when it opens in March 2023. Students from the School of Informatics, School of Computer Graphics Engineering, School of Health and Human Sciences, and others came… Read more »
62 days. 62 negative tests. 38 games. One history-making experience. On June 11, I received an email from the NBA asking about my interest and availability in participating in the recently finalized NBA Restart, which was to take place at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Apprehension, excitement, and awe were the feelings that flooded… Read more »
by The SII Team The Sports Innovation Institute partnered with Zooom Productions to develop a prototype for an interactive sports video game experience focused on training sports officials.
In the sports industry, having a solid network of other professionals in the industry is imperative. The IU Indianapolis sports management program emphasizes that so students are ready to make an impact as soon as they graduate. Corey Davis, M.S. Event Tourism 2017, took advantage of the networking opportunities he was provided while in the program,… Read more »
It’s not often you find a program of study where every single professor genuinely wants to see you succeed, but that’s the case with the sports management program at IUPUI. Trey Brown, who finished his sports management degree at IUPUI in 2018, credited his professors with preparing him to work in the industry through their connections… Read more »
Part of the reason the sports management program at IU Indianapolis can set students up for success is the connections the faculty have in a sports-rich environment like Indianapolis. Darren Stillson, a 2016 graduate of the program, knows the benefits of those connections perhaps better than anyone. He used them to get an internship with the Indiana High… Read more »
by Kevin Feller, B.S. Sports Management 2018, and Laura Klaum, M.A. The Sports Innovation Institute, along with the NCAA and the Indiana Sports Corporation, recently staged an Innovation Sprint for IUPUI students studying sports management, human computer interaction, and computer graphic technology.
by Kyle Mechelin A nationwide shortage of sports officials has grown to become a serious threat to sports at all levels. Athletic organizations have felt the pressure of finding the minimum number of officials to staff contests. The past years have repeatedly seen youth and interscholastic sporting events cancelled or postponed due to the lack… Read more »
by The SII Team In a cross-university collaboration, the IU Indianapolis Sports Innovation Institute engaged in a design innovation sprint with Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, IN in the fall of 2019. Twelve sport management students from three universities set out to answer the question “How do we use sport and physical activity to… Read more »
