The sport management program in the Department of Health and Kinesiology has been selected to participate in the National Sports Forum Case Cup competition to be held in conjunction with the 2010 National Sports Forum conference.

This will mark the fourth year of the NSF Case Cup Competition. In previous years, the competition has been an invitation-only event built around six of the nation's top sports masters and MBA programs. The sport management program at Texas A&M has been in this competition since its inception, along with programs from Arizona State University, Ohio University, the University of Central Florida, University of Memphis, and University of Oregon.

For the 2010 NSF competition , Georgetown University, George Washington University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and University of South Carolina were selected through an application and screening process to join the original six competing institutions.

The NSF Case Cup is a unique opportunity for sports masters and sports MBA program students from ten of the nation's top institutions to compete in a multidisciplinary case study utilizing the skills obtained in their programs' curricula.

Teams consist of four students currently enrolled in each school's program. The case itself is not disclosed to any team prior to the event. Once the case is released, teams have exactly 24 hours to study the case and prepare a 20 minute presentation of their conclusions. Students then give their presentations to a panel of judges and may be asked up to 10 minutes of follow up questions. The winning school is announced on stage during the National Sports Forum conference.

The NSF conference will be February 1-3, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland.