1. The principal aim of SMAANZ is to encourage scholarly inquiry into sport management related research and to provide the opportunity to present results from this research SMAANZ conducts an annual conference to facilitate the presentation of sport management related research. It has also established a refereed journal, the Sport Management Review SMAANZ was founded in November 1995. This is a brief overview of how we began The Way We Were

2. THE WAY WE WERE FORMATION The formation of SMAANZ was first mooted at a Queensland Australian Society of Sport Administrators conference in 1994 A meeting at Deakin University in 1995 to help progress the idea was the result of correspondence sent by David Shilbury to many academics This led to the 1 st SMAANZ Conference being held at Deakin in November 1995

3. THE WAY WE WERE FORMATION It was at this first conference that the decision was made to move forward and establish what we now know as SMAANZ A mission and organisational structure were finalised The Foundation Board members were elected from the conference delegates

4. L-R: Hans Westerbeek Secretary Deakin David Shilbury President Deakin Terry Woods Committee SCU Shayne Quick Vice President UTS Stephen Thompson Treasurer UTS Adel Van Rosmalen Student Rep Deakin Laurence Chalip Committee Griffith Robin McConnell NZ Committee Massey Foundation Board Members

5. FIRST BOARD MEETING 1995 From this board has come 4 Professors and 1 Associate Professor

6. THE WAY WE WERE Unfortunately Stephen Thompson passed away a few months after the Deakin Conference Terry Woods stepped into the role of Treasurer and the new Committee members then included Trish Bradbury (New Zealand Rep)

7. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ COMMITTEE Many members from Australia and New Zealand, from city and regional universities have served on the Committee with distinction The original executive committee served for 5 years which provided a solid foundation for the organisation There have been 6 Presidents

8. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ PRESIDENTS David Shilbury (1995-2001)

9. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ PRESIDENTS Shayne Quick 2001 - 2003

10. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ PRESIDENTS Hans Westerbeek 2003-2005

11. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ PRESIDENTS Tracy Taylor 2005-2007

13. THE WAY WE WERE SMAANZ PRESIDENTS Russell Hoye 2008 -

14. THE WAY WE WERE INITIATIVES - CONFERENCES The conferences are held for 2 consecutive years in Australia followed by one in New Zealand They embrace both regional and city universities and initially were “no-frills” Some of my favourites were in New Zealand which as we all know is a “slice of heaven”

16. THE WAY WE WERE CONFERENCE VENUES 2003 University of Otago Dunedin 2004 Deakin University Melbourne 2005 University of Canberra Canberra 2006 Commonwealth Games Conf. Melbourne 2007 Auckland University Auckland 2008 Curtin University Fremantle 2009 Bond University Gold Coast

17. THE WAY WE WERE CONFERENCES– FIRST ORGANISING COMMITTEE L-R Hans Westerbeek David Shilbury Lynley Hamilton Natalie Wallace Kellie Bolton Paul Turner John Deane

18. THE WAY WE WERE CONFERENCES – SOME CONVENORS L-R. Guthrie – Hansie – Woodsie (the WCC) John Davies (2010 )

19. THE WAY WE WERE CONFERENCES – SOME CONVENORS Robin McConnell David Shilbury

20. CONFERENCES CENTRAL QUEENSLAND CONVENOR Geoff Dickson

21. CONFERENCES CURTIN CONVENOR Cameron Yorke

22. MASSEY CONFERENCE WELCOME (Kia ora) Robin McConnell and family

23. CONFERENCES MASSEY CHAIR Lesley Ferkins

24. MASSEY CONFERENCE DELEGATES

25. OTAGO DELEGATES

28. THE WAY WE WERE SOME CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Larnach Castle - Dunedin

29. THE WAY WE WERE CONFERENCE VENUES

30. THE WAY WE WERE THANKS

32. Who could forget the Woolshed – OTAGO conference?

33. Not Matt, Ray or Cheryl

34. THE WAY WE WERE SOME CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Carisbrook Stadium- Dunedin

35. Walking on the “hallowed turf”

36. Southern Cross Uni Front Row

37. THE WAY WE WERE SOME CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Waiheke Island Auckland

38. A Trans –Tasman Connection at a conference dinner in Rockhampton

39. THE WAY WE WERE INITIATIVES - JOURNAL Sport Management Review (SMR) The decision to establish a journal was made 11 th April 1997 The Foundation Editor was Laurence Chalip who presented his first report to the Board in 1998 The first Volume of SMR was published in November 1998

40. THE WAY WE WERE SMR JOURNAL EDITORS Laurence Chalip David Shilbury Christine Green Graham Cuskelly

43. THE WAY WE WERE Thanks to those who provided photos and details of our history