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Dr. Gary R. Gray is Director of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NCAA Division II) and Professor (graduate
program in sport management) at Montana State
University-Billings. He is former Chair of the
Department of Health and Physical Education, former
Associate Dean in the College of Education and Human
Services, and former Director of the Employee
Wellness Program at the same institution. He
received his B.P.E. degree from the University of
New Brunswick (Canada), his M.S. degree from the
University of Kentucky, and his Ed. D. degree from
the University of Oregon. His doctoral dissertation
studied sport-related negligence lawsuits in school
settings. Dr. Gray has taught physical education
and coached in schools, large and small, public and
private, grades one through university, in the
United States and Canada. He has been active in
researching, writing, speaking, and consulting on
sport management issues and sport safety and risk
management behaviors in a wide variety of sport and
recreational environments since 1983. Gray is the
former and founding Editor of the Journal of
Legal Aspects of Sport and is a Past President
of the Society for the Study of Legal Aspects of
Sport and Physical Activity (SSLASPA). He is an
active member of the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education and Dance (AAHPERD) and served
for many years on the Board of Directors as well as
President of the School and Community Safety Society
of America (SCSSA). Gray has also been active in the
National Congress of State Games by serving as the
national Chair for insurance and risk management.
Gray has been at MSU Billings since 1994. Prior
to that he directed the undergraduate and graduate
programs in sport management at Iowa State
University from 1987-1994. He went to Iowa State
from Eastern Montana College, where he taught and
coached from 1984-1987. |
