Governance in Sport: Analysis and Application

About Bonnie TiellKerri Cebula

Bonnie Tiell EdD is a professor of sport management at Tiffin University (TU). She has served as the facultys NCAA athletic representative dean of graduate studies and MBA chair. Prior to her faculty appointment she served as an administrator and an assistant athletic director. She is a member of the TU Hall of Fame in recognition of her extensive accolades for coaching volleyball softball and tennis. Tiell also serves as a nonresident faculty member for the United States Sports Academy as an instructor in their doctoral program. She routinely travels abroad to instruct in the academy's international sport administration certificate programs. On behalf of the academy and select sport ministries she has extensive experience working with executives military leaders elite coaches and administrators representing international and national sport federations and associations. Widely recognized for her contributions to intercollegiate athletic administration and global sport governance Tiell is the founder and codirector of Academic Experience with Olympians a program initiated in Athens Greece in 2004 that offers students from around the world the opportunity for on-site study of the organization supervision and management of international sport venues and elite competition in an Olympic host city. She is also cofounder of the Womens Leadership Symposium in Intercollegiate Athletics a program partially financed and now administrated by the NCAA and Women Leaders in College Sports. Tiell holds a bachelors degree in physical education from Troy University a masters degree in sport administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate of education in sport management from the United States Sports Academy (USSA). She writes a monthly column for the Advertiser-Tribune that focuses on economic global and social issues in sport and she is also the author of the textbook Human Resources in Sports: A Managerial Approach.Kerri Cebula JD is an associate professor of sport management at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She holds a juris doctorate from Marquette University Law School (MULS) where she also earned the certificate in sports law from the National Sports Law Institute (NSLI). While at MULS she was a member of the Marquette Sports Law Review and served as a research assistant to Professor Paul Anderson the director of the NSLI. She also holds a bachelors degree in political science and justice from American University. She has presented at the conferences of the College Sport Research Institute the Sport Marketing Association the Sport and Recreation Law Association and the European Association of Sport Management. She has been published in the Journal of Brand Strategy Journal of NCAA Compliance and Concussion Litigation Alert. Her work also appears in the Handbook of International Sport Business and Sports Leadership: A Concise Reference Guide. Prior to coming to Kutztown Kerri worked as a compliance officer in the athletic departments of Villanova University and the University of Delaware.