The 16th annual Sportsmanship Day Symposium will take place on Thursday, March 7, and will convey a multidisciplinary look at sportsmanship (or sportspersonship) with a theme of "Good Sportsmanship Goes Beyond Sports."
Co-sponsored by SUNY Oswego's sports studies program and the Sociology Department, the symposium will take place from 2:20 to 5:15 p.m. on March 7 in 104 Lanigan Hall. Participants provide an approximately 12-minute presentation on a story/event that involves sportsmanship, whether good or poor. The campus community is invited to attend what is always a wide variety of presentations.
Sociology professor Tim Delaney, who founded the conference at SUNY Oswego and continues to organize it, said the schedule is as follows:
2:20 to 3:40 p.m.:
Tim Delaney: "Welcome to the 16th Annual Sportsmanship Day Symposium"
- Tim Delaney: "Sportsmanship Day Symposium: A Retrospective"
- Wendy McManus: "Sporting Behaviors: Navigating Spectators"
- Merlin Joseph Jr: "Playing Against the Lakers."
- Chris Mack: "Will They or Won't They? Russian Athletes and Paris 2024"
- Tim Madigan: "Sports as a Human Right"
3:55 to 5:15 p.m.:
Ranjit Dighe: "Alex Rodriguez and Baseball's Steroid Era in Song"
- Jennifer Hites-Thomas and Rowan Tetro: "Practicing Sportspersonship in Support of Trans and Intersex Athletes"
- Anthony Pham: "Good Sportsmanship in Competitive Cheerleading"
- Eve Clark: "Sportsmanship, Femininity Personified: Confronting Gender Stereotypes in Sports"
- Stephen Wurst: "Sportsmanship and TV Competition Shows"
For more information or to propose a session, email Delaney at tim.delaney@oswego.edu or Sandi Cotter at sandra.cotter@oswego.edu.