The Sport, Leisure, and the Body Division announces the 2013 Graduate Student Paper Competition.  Papers may be empirical and/or theoretical, and may be on any aspect of sport or sporting culture, leisure, and/or sporting bodies broadly defined.  The winner will receive a stipend of $100, student membership in SSSP for 2013, complimentary registration for the 2013 annual meeting (to help the winner attend the meeting), and a complimentary ticket to the 2013 SSSP awards banquet.  The winner will also be invited to present the winning paper at one of the Sport, Leisure, and the Body sessions at the 2013 annual meeting.  To be eligible, a paper must meet the following criteria: 1) the applicant must be a graduate student at the time of the SSSP annual meeting in August 9-11, 2013, 2) the applicant must be the first (lead) author on the paper, 3) the paper must not be co-authored with a faculty member or a colleague who is not a student; 4) the paper must not have been submitted or accepted for publication (papers that have been submitted for presentation at a professional meeting are eligible); 5) the paper must not exceed 30 pages including notes, references, and tables; 6) the paper must be typed using 12 point font in either Times New Roman or Courier; and 7) the paper must be accompanied by a nominating letter from a faculty member at the student’s college or university.  Please submit your paper electronically as a Microsoft Word and PDF file to ccooky@purdue.edu. The faculty letter of nomination may be sent electronically or as a hard copy to: Dr. Cheryl Cooky, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Purdue University, 800 W. Stadium Ave. West Lafayette, IN 47907-2046.  Paper submission must be dated (via electronic time/date stamp and post-mark) on or before 1/31/13.