Sport Management Faculty

Jon Welty Peachey

Dean of Academic Affairs
Professor of Sport Management and Leadership

Jon joined the Gordon administration and faculty in 2022 and serves as Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Sport Management and Leadership. He teaches courses in the sport management concentration. Before coming to Gordon, Jon was on the sport management faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at Texas A&M University.

Jon's research examines how sport for development programs should be best designed, managed, ... more ➔

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Sue Kelly

Head Volleyball Coach
Administrator for Athletics
Sports Ministry Director
Per Course Instructor

30+ years coaching multiple sports at all levels; 17 years full-time sport ministry with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

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Stuart McMahon

Lecturer

Stuart, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, currently resides in Massachusetts. His research focuses on sport entrepreneurship and the resources contributing to the financial success of sport businesses. He provides extensive knowledge on how sport is managed not only from an American perspective but a European and global perspective.

Dr. McMahon’s other research interests include pedagogical implications for teaching and developing ... more ➔

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Margaret Niehaus

Lecturer

Margaret has taught at Gordon since 2000, in both the Economics and Business and the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments. She trained as an applied mathematician and initially worked in the field of geophysical fluid dynamics. This included analytical modeling of the large-scale motion of the midlatitude atmosphere, and numerical modeling of fine-structure in the upper ocean. Her positive experience as a teaching assistant at ... more ➔

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