2016 Execs

Lindsey Blom
Fellow Name
Title
Associate Professor of Sport & Exercise Psychology
Coordinator of the Master's Program in Sport & Exercise Psychology
Organization
Ball State University
Explanation of Products or Services

For the past decade, Lindsey has investigated positive youth development through sport and using sport to promote peace at the individual, community, and international levels. Specifically, her research focuses on maximizing the benefits of sport participation through a mastery and cooperative approach fostered by trained coaches and supportive parents, emphasizing a holistic, long-term athletic development model.

Short Bio
Dr. Lindsey Blom is an Associate Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Faculty Athletics Representative, and Sport & Exercise Psychology Graduate Program Coordinator at Ball State University interested in psycho-social aspects of youth sport and sport for development and peace. Over the past decade, she has investigated positive youth development through sport and using sport to promote peace at the individual, community, and international levels. Specifically, her research focuses on maximizing the benefits of sport participation through a mastery and cooperative approach fostered by trained coaches and supportive parents, emphasizing a holistic, long-term athletic development model. Her recent projects include exploring the positive peace indicators and development of purpose in Liberian youth involved in a sport for development program, conducting sport for social change programs in Jordan and Tajikistan, developing a values-based curriculum that can infused into recreational sport leagues, chairing the NASPE task force for the position statement on Maximizing the Benefits of Youth Sport, and running local after-school sport for peace leadership programs with elementary school children. Additionally, she has been an invited expert on using sport for development to counter violent extremism for two closed roundtable discussions hosted by the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation and Hedayah. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Blom has co-authored journal articles, book chapters, and a book, Survival Guide for Coaching Youth Soccer, and received over half a million dollars externally funded grants as the principal investigator, with two more recent PI grants related to sport of social change funded by the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ SportsUnited program. Dr. Blom also serves on the Board of Directors for the Indy Premier soccer club, Indiana Soccer Foundation, and Dream Sports Africa, and on the Board for Ball State’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.
Areas of Advocacy and Interest
Positive Youth Development
Youth Sport
Positive sport experiences for all ages
Using sport as a mechanism of peace-building
Professional Development: Areas of Expertise
Positive Youth Development through Sport
Using sport as a mechanism of peace-building
Teaching life skills through sport
Sport psychology
Business Address
Ball State University
School of Kinesiology
2000 W. University Ave
City
Muncie
State
Indiana
Zip Code
47306