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Welcome
Welcome to the 2019 Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand Annual Conference at Massey University! After holding the last conference on the South Island we make a welcome return to the North Island this year and we are delighted that the team at Massey University agreed to host this year's conference. We very much look forward to catching up with you at the conference over the next two days. Don't forget to join us for a social function at the Distinction Coachman Hotel on Thursday 28th November from 5.30pm onwards.
It has been an exciting year for SESNZ and 2019 has seen a further increase in our membership; the launch of our Journal on our website - The Journal of Sport and Exercise Science (ISSN 2703-240X) as a free to submit, open access international journal; further work with ACSM, BASES, ESSA and CSEP on an international Alliance for sport and exercise science; finalisation of our accreditation processes for all accreditation pathways; and the launch of our new look website. Please ask anyone from the Board if you would like to discuss any of these developments during the Conference.
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We would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you as delegates for attending, whether you are presenting or attending to enjoy some of the excellent presentations that will be made during the conference. It is exciting to see the growth in attendance to the conference being made year on year and this year's growth has meant that we are able to create interest streams due to the increasing popularity of the conference.
Good luck to all the presenters and don't forget, if you are a student, to register for the student prizes - for the best oral presentation and poster presentation, which will be awarded on Friday afternoon. A big thank you also goes to our sponsors and helpers who include: gbc BioMed, VX Sport, COSMED, Otago Polytechnic, Routledge, Netball NZ, and Australian Catholic University, and, our gratitude to Andy Foskett and Toby Mündel and all the team at Massey University.
As a dates-for-your-diary, we are very pleased to confirm that the 2020 SESNZ Conference will be held in Christchurch at the University of Canterbury (25th - 27th November 2020) and the 2021 SESNZ Conference in Auckland at Auckland University of Technology (likely dates, TBC, 24th-26th November 2021).
It is always a team effort to make a conference run, so thank you to everyone involved at Massey University for their work behind the scenes to getting things ready for our annual get together. A warm welcome to all and please do not hesitate to contact any of the Board with feedback suggestions or ideas for the future. If you would like to get involved with the direct work of SESNZ and the Board we would be delighted to hear from you as well.
