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Dr. Krause has 30 years of experience re-building sports teams, sports programs, and athletic departments across the country. Repeating of the re-building process has identified those aspects of unsuccessful programs that normally have to be addressed. It is surprising how often the problems are similar with programs that are not succeeding at a normal level.

Jim has college and high school coaching experience in a number of sports. His college experience includes basketball, baseball, softball, golf and football. high school coaching includes basketball, softball, and soccer for both women and men. Dr. Krause started and coached both soccer programs and had to fight the football powers in Alabama to get the programs going. Building championship programs is a process that can be learned and repeated regardless of sport or level.

Administrative experience includes high school, college, university and professional sports. Guest administrative responsibilities at the Atlanta Olympics and the NCAA Final Four add to Dr. Krause's list of valuable experiences. Though each level has unique aspects, providing the necessary blocks for building a championship department can be amazingly similar. Staffing, funding, facilities and Title IX compliance are areas that need attention regardless of level. High school sports require athlete development at the lower levels and college and university sports require recruiting and retention programs, but coaching and administrative expertise is needed everywhere.

One of Dr. Krause's toughest challenges was taking control of a floundering professional soccer franchise in a State (Alabama) where football is the ONLY sport. Relying on lesson's learned earlier he instituted programs which stressed mutual respect, consistent customer service and constant community visibility for the personnel. The changes improved internal relationships, community support, and gradually, ticket sales and media interest. Preparing for the long term had to be built on the strength of the present.



Dr. G. Lynn Lashbrook has been working and teaching in Sports Management for over 30 years and has demonstrated a lifelong passion for growing dynamic sports programs. He is known for helping students strategize and reach their career goals in the world of sports. Dr. Lashbrook has also served at the collegiate level as an athletic academic advisor, compliance officer, and athletic director.

He was an Assistant Athletic Director at the University of Missouri, before becoming a Director of Athletics at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He turned down the AD job at Western Michigan University so he could begin developing his own sports management company. As Athletic Director, Dr. Lashbrook improved athlete graduation rates, increased ticket sales, bettered school participation in athletics, initiated and successfully completed a Student Recreation Center, established the first ever NCAA athletic exchange with Russia, and achieved record levels of fundraising and alumni donations. Dr. Lashbrook understands the importance of ethical leadership and power of the podium and bringing out community spirit through sports. In 1985, Dr. Lashbrook served as President of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics.

Internationally, Lashbrook has served as keynote speaker in China, Russia, England, Mexico, Hong Kong, Singapore, Greece, and Aruba. For the legal profession he provides an online CLE "Winning with Ethics" seminar through Legalspan. His campus experiences include serving as an adjunct professor at Oregon State University, Eastern Oregon University, and Western Oregon University, and Pacific University. As an Adjunct Professor at the United States Sports Academy he was named Professor of the Year in the Distant Learning Program in 2000.

Currently, Dr. Lashbrook is President of Sports Management Worldwide, first ever online sports management company with a mission to educate future sports business executives. SMWW trains thousands of students every year for sports business careers. This includes the Sports Management Worldwide Agency, an international full service sports agency with over 200 Agent Advisors worldwide representing hundreds of athletes.

Dr. Lashbrook is Director of the online Masters and Doctorate Degree in Sports Management with the Northcentral University. In addition to his busy schedule as an online educator, Dr. Lashbrook continues to work as an NFL registered sports agent and has personally represented 25 NFL clients and spearheaded the MLB Oregon Campaign.

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