Professional Opportunities

We are preparing undergraduate and master’s students for careers in health promotion, sport-related initiatives, and graduate study in allied areas.  Work sites are varied and include non-profit, corporate, public, and clinical settings.  Doctoral students mainly go to careers on college campuses, either as college professors or as administrators of athletic programs located within academic communities.  Information on employment opportunities, practicum experiences, and professional organizations is provided below.

• Academic Positions
  • Opportunities in Physical Education and Related Areas (OPERA)
  • Chronicle Careers
• Health-Related Physical Fitness and Physical Activity
  • American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
• Health Promotion
  • HP Career
  • National Commission for Health Education Credentialing
  • Wellness Connection
  • Health Promotion Jobs
  • Health and Fitness Jobs
• Public Health
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Association of Schools of Public Health
• Sports Related
  • OnLine Sports Career Center
• Other Job-Related Sites
  • AAHPERD Career Center
  • Human Kinetics

Practicum and Internship Opportunities in Health and Sport Studies

Community and clinical practicum experiences give students additional opportunity to apply health promotion or sport studies concepts and skills. As a capstone experience, supervised academic internships are available in a variety of organizational settings, both nationally and internationally. For more information, click here.

Professional Organizations Related to Health and Sport Studies

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (AAHPERD)
• American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation (AAPAR)
• American Association for Health Education (AAHE)
• American College of Sports Medicine
• Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP)
• Health Iowa
• National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA)
• National Association for Girls and Women in Sport
• National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• National Wellness Institute
• North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA)
• North American Society for Sport History
• North American Society for Sport Management
• North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS)
• Women's Sports Foundation