Dr. Chad McEvoy is a professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at Northern Illinois University. Previously McEvoy served for three years as professor and graduate program director at Syracuse University’s David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics in the sport management area. McEvoy also served in a similar capacity at Illinois State University from 2002–2012.

McEvoy has co-authored two other textbooks in the sport management discipline, Financial Management in the Sport Industry, and Research Methods and Design in Sport Management, and his research has been featured in more than 100 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, New York Daily News, and USA Today. In June 2008, he served as a panelist before the prestigious Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in a discussion on the effectiveness of NCAA penalties for rules violations. McEvoy’s research has also been published in leading sport management academic journals such as the Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, and Sport Marketing Quarterly. McEvoy also recently completed his term as President of the Sport Marketing Association, now serving as Past-President of that organization, and McEvoy has also previously served as editor of Case Studies in Sport Management and co-editor of the Journal of Issues and Intercollegiate Athletics.

McEvoy’s professional industry experience is in intercollegiate athletics marketing and he is an active consultant in sports revenue generation practices. His educational background includes earning a doctorate in sport administration at the University of Northern Colorado with a doctoral minor in applied statistics and research methods, a master’s degree in sport management at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a bachelor’s degree in sport management at Iowa State University.