Biography - Roy E. Yarbrough

EDUCATION:
Ed. D. - University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1986
Degree: cognate area Higher Education Administration/History/ Sports Administration Financing

DISSERTATION TITLE: Perception of Three Black Leaders of the National Intramural - Recreational Sports Association

M.S.-Eastern Illinois University 1976
Degree: Sports Administration / Higher Education also Secondary Education endorsement

B.S.-Greenville College (IL) 1970
Degree: Business Administration / Marketing with a minor in Recreation / Physical Education

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

California Univ. of PA Aug. 1999-Present
Full Professor, Dir.of Sport Management Studies 350 Majors.
Teaching in the Graduate and Undergraduate program. Classes taught: Internships, Senior Seminar and Intro to Sport Management. Oversee alladvisement of majors.

Neumann Univ, Sport Management Studies Aug.1998-Aug. 99
Associate Professor/ Chairperson of Faculty Personnel Committee
Teach in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs:
Classes taught: Sport Marketing & Promotions, Sports Finance,
Sociological Issues in Sport, Management in Sport and Intro to Sport Mgt


Liberty University, Sport Management Studies 1980-1994 Full Professor / Director of Internships Studies / Director Recreation
Intramural Sports - Fourteen years of classroom teaching and advising (averaging 60 students per year on internship and general advising).

Director of Sport Management Internship, Marketing Planning, Sports History, Sports Facilities, Design and Operations and Issues and Trends in Sports Administration.

Developed the Sport Management Studies to be one of four NASPE/NASSM Nationally Certified Programs.
Classes Taught: Sports Marketing and Financing, History and Foundation of Recreational, Sports and Physical Education, Sport Event and Facility Management, Organization and Administration of Sports and Recreation. Coaching of Women in Sports, Safety Education, Driver Education, Soccer, Volleyball, Physical Fitness in Business.

National Instructor for the American Sports Education Program (ASEP):
Coaching Principle course (philosophy, psychology, pedagogy, physiology & management) and Sports First Aid. These courses are a joint effort of the National Federation of State High School Associations and Human Kinetics Publishers. (Over 900 coaches certified to date.)


PARTICULAR PROFESSIONAL AND ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCES:

1995 - 1998: Deputy Finance Director for U.S. Coast Guard, Maintenance & Logistics Command. $210M annual budget. Contracting, Procurement, Budgeting Section for Eastern U.S.A. Advisor Special Services / Recreation Div.

1994 - 1995: Fund Raising Director, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation
Formulating a winning strategy to meet customer needs. Worked with 250 public and private organizations.

1994 - 1995: President, Partners for a Better Environment: Served as a consultant to area Haz Mat Team, fire departments, and wrecker service on oil spill clean up after accidents using oil clean up materials. Public Relations, Prevention Training, Safety Workshops.

1980 - 1994: Directed the Internship program for the sports management studies. Coordinated and supervised student placement with professional and amateur sports business in the public and private sector.

1980 - 1994: Director of Recreational / Intramural Sports at Liberty Univ. Conducted sports activities for a student body of over 5,000, of which 4,000 students were active participants per school year. Supervised and directed a fifteen member staff. I am a certified Recreation Sports Specialist.

1978 - 1980: Director and Founder of the Morris (IL) Area Leisure Services. Conducted community recreational activities that were similar to that of a YMCA/YWCA or a park and recreational district. Supervised activities for a community of 10,000 population. The professional staff consisted of 40 full time workers.

1976 - 1978: Director of Health, Physical Education & Recreation at the Kenosha (WI) Youth Foundation. The KYF conducted adult physical fitness classes for major corporations in the Kenosha area and conducted adult physical fitness research. Supervised a 28 member staff. Directed the community outreach recreation program to Inner City youth.

All positions had major responsibilities in the following areas: accounting. budgeting, financial exigencies, planning (long and short term), research, public

relations, marketing and promoting, fund-raising, facilities planning, curriculum development and staffing.


AWARDS AND HONORS:

• 2006 Greenville College Hall of Fame inductee
• Certified Recreational Sport Specialist.(CRSS) - NIRSA
• Member of USA Soccer Hall of Fame
• Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
• Outstanding College Athletes of America
• Sanctioned by USCG to compete on US Olympic Track Team
• AAU-All American in track and field - sport: Race Walking
• Physical Fitness Specialist - Cooper's Research Center
• Refereed 3 state championship games in soccer ( IL, VA, AK )
• 1989 - Present: National Historian for the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA); 3,000 college, university and military membership
• 1992 - Lead person for NIRSA Winter Journal Project: The topic was the History of NIRSA


PAPERS PUBLISHED:

2004 - Book "MASCOTS" The History of Senior College/University Mascots 2nd ed

1999 - Lead person on NIRSA History - Winter issue – Journal 50th anniversary

1986 - Dissertation was selected for publication on microfiche by Microform Publications

1986 & 1987 - Parts of dissertation were selected for publication in NIRSA
Journal: a four-article publication project

1988 - selected for the NIRSA PROCEEDING: "NIRSA's Oral History Project" - "How To Do Your Own"

724-880-0973
Writing Physical Fitness articles for the following magazines and newsletters: National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association, United States Soccer Federation Referee, REFEREE -- The Magazine of Sports Officiating.

MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
North American Society for Sport Management - since 1988

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) - since 1975

National Intramural - Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) - Lifetime member on national committees - Historian. Certified Recreational Sports Specialist (CRSS).

National Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association (NISOA) - since 1976 - on
National Academy staff as a physical fitness advisor and National Clinician

United States Soccer Federation (USSF) - on National Staff as a physical fitness advisor and a referee instructor: governs professional soccer and Olympic teams

Reserve Officers Association (ROA) - since 1979 - Lifetime member

The Officer's Christian Fellowship - since 1979
OTHER INFORMATION:

Commissioner of the Mason-Dixon Track and Field Conference: this conference is made up of 15 colleges and universities. NCAA level is Division I- AA, II and III and conducts three major conference championships - cross country, indoor and outdoor track.

Presently doing physical fitness performance research for NISOA and USSF for professional and college level soccer referees.

1990 inductee into the USA SOCCER HALL OF FAME

Past Director of Sports Activities for the Virginia American Legion Boys State program

Acquisition and Divestiture Consultant (World Business Association) to the Communications Industry

Ten years as a member of Campbell County School Board, Virginia -$50,000,000 budget. School Board Representative on Campbell County Recreation Advising Board

 
 

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