Dr. Steven Estes did his undergraduate and master’s studies in physical education at San Diego State University, where he trained and raced for U.S. rowing teams in the 1970s and 1980s. He received his doctorate in physical education from The Ohio State University and has taught and held administrator positions at CSU Fullerton, SUNY Cortland, East Carolina University and Missouri Western State University and is currently at Middle Tennessee State University. An author of four textbooks on sport in culture, his research areas now include humanities in sport and leadership studies. He has served twice as President of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education and has given numerous lectures at academic and professional conferences in his specialty areas. Dr. Estes was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Tennessee State Guard in 2015 and currently serves as the Public Affairs Officer, Headquarters Company, in Nashville.