Mission Statement

The Recreational Sports Journal is the scholarly publication of the NIRSA Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to support the goals of the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association and whose purpose is to provide a source of empirical, theoretical, and applied research to the field of recreational sports. Topics of interest to the Recreational Sports Journal include, but are not limited to, leadership, student development, programming, facility management and design, legal issues, personnel management and supervision, assessment, sponsorship, fund raising, marketing, and organizational development.