Educational background

• 2004 Ph.D., University of British Columbia, (Canada), Educational Studies
• 1992 M.S. Eastern Washington University, Physical Education-College Instruction
• 1989 B.S. Lewis-Clark State College, Physical Education

Research interests

• Sport management ethics - corruption, civic engagement in sport
• Sport policy - deliberative democracy
• Intercollegiate athletics
• Community sport-delivery of urban youth programs

My research interest in sport management ethics and policy has been strongly informed through my experiences as an athlete, coach, and athletic conference commissioner. My research interests focus on the central tenets of ethics, policy, and community sport. First, I am interested in corruption and sport organizations. In particular, I am interested in how organizational stakeholders who were not involved in malfeasant activities are impacted during the post-corruption years. Using an empirical case study of an instance of extensive academic corruption within the context of intercollegiate athletics, I am working toward a theory about how organizational stakeholders within a sports program are affected by the various consequences of corruption during the post-corruption period. Second, I am interested in deliberative democracy and sport policy. In particular, I am interested in examining how more sport organizational stakeholders can be involved in the policy process and how they hold administrators accountable for their decision making. Last, extending from my professional administrative experiences, I am interested in examining the delivery of urban youth sports programs.

Current research projects

• A comparative case study of the Canadian Sport Policy process (Thibault, Kikulis, Kihl, babiak, Frisby, Vail, & Hoeber)
• Creating a Positive Environment for an Inner City Community Youth Baseball Program (Kihl, Dayton’s Bluff Recreation Center, & the Minnesota Twins)
• Minnesota Twins Rookie League and Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) Program: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Gaining Inner City Participation in Baseball and Softball (Kihl & Babiak)
• Civic engagement and sport: Developing the notion of the citizen-athlete (Kihl, Moorman, & Hums)

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Kihl, L. A., & Richardson, T. (In press). “Fixing the mess”: A grounded theory of corruption’s affect on an intercollegiate Men’s basketball coaching staff. Submitted to the Journal of Sport Management.

Kihl, L. A., Richardson, T. & Campisi, C. (2008). Toward a grounded theory of student-athlete suffering and dealing with academic corruption. Journal of Sport Management.22(3). 273-302

Kihl, L. A. Kikulis, L. M. & Thibault, L. (2007). A deliberative democratic approach to     becoming athlete-centred: The dynamics of administrative and communicative power. European Sport Management Quarterly. 1(1), 1-30.

Kihl, L. A. (2007). Moral codes, moral tensions, and hiding behind the rules: A snap shot of athletic administrators’ practical morality. Sport Management Review, 10(3), 279-305.

Kihl, L. A. (2006). What’s morality got to do with it: An examination of compliance officers’ approaches to rule interpretations. Journal of College & Character Special Issue- Sport Ethics.7(3), 1-8.

Refereed abstracts

Kihl, L. A. (2006). Insights into Pac Ten compliance officers’ moral functioning. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 74, (1) Suppliment), A-87.

Contributions to chapter of an edited book

Kihl, L. A. (2006). International side bar-Violence in Australian Sport. In Kane, M. J. Chapter-Sociology of sport (pp. 398-399) . In J. Parks & J. Quarterman (Eds.), Contemporary sport management. (3rd Ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

Manuscripts under review

Kihl, L. A. (Under Review). Ethical theory versus practical reasoning: Rethinking sport management ethics instruction. Submitted to the Journal of Sport Management.

Kihl, L. A. (Under Review). Morality and moral functioning of sport administrators: An argument for interpretive research. Submitted to European Sport Management Quarterly.

Kihl, L. A. & Soroka, M. (Under Review). The legitimacy of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on opportunity in athletics. Submitted to the Journal of Public Deliberation.

Grants

Kihl, L. A. (2008). Minnesota Twins rookie league and reviving baseball in inner cities (RBI) program: Evaluating the effectiveness of gaining inner city participation in baseball and softball. A program evaluation proposal submitted to The Minnesota Twins.
Amount: $30,000 2 years (Funded)

Kikulis, L. M., Kihl., L. A., Thibault, L., Frisby, W., Vail, S., Babiak, K. & Hoeber, L. (October, 2007). A Comparative case study of collaborative approaches to sport participation policy implementation. Submitted to the Canadian Government Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Montreal, QC Canada.
Amount: $141,266.50 (Funded)

Kihl. L. A. (September, 2007). Paper presentation at the Play the Game 2007 - Creating Coalitions for Good Governance in Sport Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. Submitted to the University of Minnesota Office of International Programs, International Travel Grant.
Amount: $1000 (Funded)

Kihl, L.A. (March, 2006). Dealing with corruption: An investigation of the University of Minnesota Men’s basketball program. Submitted to the College of Education-Summer Research Support for faculty.
Amount: $5,000 (Funded)

Graduate Students

Doctoral advisees:

Charles Campisi-Globalization and Major League Baseball academies

Matt Soroka-Sport and youth civic engagement

Jon Steadland-Athletic governance and public trust

Master's advisees:

Ching-Jen Chang- Cause-related marketing and professional sports teams

Anderson Diercks- Leadership and women in intercollegiate athletics

Nicole Gilmore-Psychological commitment and intercollegiate sports fans

Jonanthan Schaefer-Organizational effectiveness and youth soccer associations

November 2008