The purpose of the Sport Psychology Concentration at GSAPP is three-fold:

1. To educate and train GSAPP students and others, including postdoctoral students, so that each one of them can be reliably judged as having successfully engaged in systematic education and training in sport psychology.
   
   
2. To assure that these aforementioned individuals are capable of practicing sport psychology by assisting them in creating projects, dissertations, and supervised experiences that will help them acquire particular knowledge, skills, and abilities for their professional practices.
   
   
3. To generate information about the application of psychology to sport, particularly in the service of the development and performance enhancement of athletes, coaches, parents, administrators, and other stakeholders.