Program Coordinator
Master of Science (MS) in Sport Management

Dr. Annie Clement
Professor, Coordinator, Sport Management

Annie Clement, author, researcher, attorney, and academic leader, joined the Barry University faculty as Coordinator of the Sport Management program in August 2003. Dr. Clement is currently best known for her texts, Law in Sport and Physical Activity, Legal Responsibility in Aquatics, and Teaching Physical Activity. One additional book, twenty book chapters, seventy articles, and over one hundred-fifty presentations are among her achievements. In-depth study of risk management, aquatics, intellectual property, antitrust, equal pay, and gender equity are a few of the areas in which her research and writing has been continuous.

Dr. Clement holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a master’s degree from Minnesota, Minneapolis. Her doctorate is from the University of Iowa and her Jurisdoctorate from Cleveland State University. She also studied at Cambridge University and the University of Oslo.

Dr. Clement was born and raised in a small town outside of Duluth, Minnesota, where she was known as an outstanding athlete and writer. She had the fortunate experience of attending a high school where, long before Title IX, the women were afforded the same opportunities as men in swimming and tennis. She dropped only one set in three years of high school tennis competition and was later ranked in the top one hundred in the United States. She was also editor of her high school newspaper.

A winning Hibbing, Minnesota junior high school synchronized swimming team launched Dr. Clement from her first teaching position to head coach of tennis and synchronized swimming, and a full time teaching position in Physical Education at the University of Iowa. Iowa’s swimmers were among the top three in the nation all but her first year of coaching the team. From coaching she moved to collegiate management where she spent most of her career, first as a chair of a large physical education department, then as a planner in an academic vice-president’s office, and later as an associate dean managing 70% of the university’s graduate enrollment. In the latter two positions she was the first woman to hold such a position and was the highest-ranking female in the institution. It was during that time that Dr. Clement acquired a distinguished career in fund raising, receiving grants from the Administration on Aging, Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), Carnegie Foundation, Association of American Colleges for Exemplar Liberal Education, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Women’s Educational Equity Program.

One of the largest projects credited to Clement was the Cleveland Alternative Educational Program and Senior Citizens Tutorial that received the American Association of State Colleges and Universities G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Education. Another award to a project in which Cr. Clement was involved was the Crim Elementary School Project that received an American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education National Award.

After completing a law degree in night school while working as dean, Dr. Clement left academic management and developed one of the early programs in sport management in a large metropolitan community. In 1998, Florida State University convinced her to move south. While at FSU, she developed the areas of emphasis in law and risk management and advised numerous doctoral students.

Dr. Clement has been awarded many unique honors.

• Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABA), a distinction given to only one third of one percent of the ABA membership; the Nonprofit Lawyers Award
• Distinguished speaker at ten different universities
• President of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
• President, Ohio Teacher Educators
• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) Honor Award
• Aquatic Council Merit Award
• NASPE Joy of Effort Award

Her professional achievements also include the following:

• Ohio AHPERD Honor Award
• Tsunami Spirit Award from the Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institute
• Susan B. Anthony Award from Ohio National Organization of Women (NOW)
• Honor Award from the Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics (CNCA)