Kinesiology and Health Education

Dr. Green earned her Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Maryland. She worked at Griffith University in Australia for five years before coming to the University of Texas in 2001. She currently directs the Sport+Development Lab at UT, which works with sport organizations locally, nationally, and internationally to enhance systems of youth, athlete, and sport development.

1996 Ph.D. University of Maryland, Sport Management

Bowers, M., & Green, B.C. (in press).  Reconstructing the community-based youth sport experience: How children derive meaning from unstructured and organized settings.  Journal of Sport Management.

Green, B.C., Murray, N.P., & Warner, S. (2011).  Understanding website useability: An eye-tracking study of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games website.  International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, 10, 257 - 271.

Green, B.C. (2008).  Sport as an agent for social and personal change.  In V. Girginov (Ed.), Management of Sport Development (pp. 129-146). Oxford, UK:  Elsevier.

Sparvero, E., Chalip, L., & Green, B.C. (2008).  Laissez faire sport development:  Building elite athletes in the United States.  In B. Houlihan & M. Green (Eds.), Comparative Elite Sport Development (pp. 242-270).  Oxford, UK:  Butterworth-Heinemann.

Green, B.C. (2005).  Building sport programs to optimize athlete recruitment, retention, & transition:  Toward a normative theory of sport development.  Journal of Sport Management, 19, 233-253.

• Distinguished Service Award, Sport Management Association of Australia & New Zealand
• Research Fellow, North American Society for Sport Management
• Outstanding Service Award, BOA 2000 Holding Camp, British Olympic Association

USA Football, Research Partnership Grant, Developing High School Girls Flag Football ($10,000).  M.A. Dixon & B.C. Green, May 2011-May 2012.

USA Football, Research Partnership Grant, Injury Surveillance Study ($20,000).  B.C. Green, M.A. Dixon, & L. Chalip, January 2011-August 2012.

 US Play Coalition, Research Seed Grant, Deconstructing the Sport Experience: Understanding Variations in Context ($3000).  M.T. Bowers & B.C. Green, February 2011-March 2011.

Sport Canada, Sport Participation Research Initiative Grant, Leveraging sport events for sport development ($108,140).  M. Taks, L. Chalip, B.C. Green, & L. Misener,  January 2011-December 2013. 

North American Society for Sport Management, Improving Organizational Effectiveness:
Understanding Athletes' Socio-cultural Adaptation to New Training Environments. ($2,000). B.L. Smith, & B.C. Green, May 2010.

Dr. Green's research focuses on sport development.  At a conceptual level, sport development is concerned with the ways in which sport programs grow, interact, and are resourced.  The study of sport development examines the growth and management of sport at individual, group, community, organizational, and societal levels.  The intellectual aim of this work is to elaborate a model that identifies factors that facilitate or inhibit the development of sport at each level, and that describes the separate, cumulative, and interactive effects of those factors within and across levels.  The practical outcome of such work is enhanced effectiveness in the governance, administration, marketing, and policymaking for sport programs and sport systems. 

• Associate Editor, Journal of Sport Management
Associate Editor, Journal of Sport & Tourism
• Editorial Board, Sport Management Review
• Editorial Board, European Sport Management Quarterly
• Member, North American Society for Sport Management
• Member, Sport Management Association of Australia & New Zealand
• Member, National Recreation and Park Association
• Member, US Play Coalition