Dr. Horne, originally from England, began his academic and athletic journey in the United States as a Division II tennis player at the University of South Carolina Aiken. He went on to earn his M.S. in Sport Management from the University of South Carolina before working in tennis governance across Europe, including with the International Tennis Federation’s Development Office in Valencia, Spain. In 2015, he returned to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in Sport Management at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Concordia University Chicago, Dr. Horne spent five years at the University of New Mexico. His research centers on youth sport and has been published in several top-tier Sport Management journals.

Degrees

  • PhD, Sport Management - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Champaign, IL

Prior Professional 

  • Assistant Professor of Sport Administration at the University of New Mexico (2020-2025)
  • Instructor of Sport Management at Northern Illinois University (2019-2020)
  • Assistant Research Officer at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in Valencia, Spain (2015)

Areas of Research

  • Sport Development
  • Youth Sport Development Systems
  • Sport Coaching

Publications

  • Horne, E., Lower-Hoppe, L. M., & Green, B. C. (2023). Co-creation in youth sport development: Examining (mis)alignment between coaches and parents. Sport Management Review, 26(2), 271:292. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2022.2050107

  • Horne, E., & Teare, G. (2024). Toward value co-creation in private youth sport for "secondary" consumers: Expert coaches: perceptions of parent-coach collaboration. European Sport Management Quarterly, 24(6), 1153:1173. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2023.2263881

  • Horne, E., Woolf, J., & Green, B. C. (2022). Relationship dynamics between parents and coaches: Are they failing young athletes? Managing Sport and Leisure, 3(27), 224:240. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2020.1779114

  • Horne, E., Green, B. C., Haugen, M., & Peachey, J. W. (2025). Beyond the baseline: Cognitive dissonance in the journey to professional tennis. Journal of Sport Behavior, 48(2), 8:25.

  • Horne, E., & Mao, L. (2024). Determining private youth sport coaches? wage expectations for tournament attendance: A market-based solution to incentivize tournament attendance in coaches of individual sports. Journal of Global Sport Management, 1:21. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2024.2358535

  • Horne, E., Mao, L., Bowers, M. T., & Miller, G. L. (2025). The influence of the market-driven private youth sport setting on sport delivery: A multilevel approach to understanding the coaches' perspective. International Journal of Sport Management, 26(1), 51:78.

  • Horne, E., Siegele, J., Swanson, R., & Miller, G. L. (2025). The Athletic Reckoning: Identity, Realization, and Career Preparation as Analyzed by Former College Athletes. Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, 18(3), 307:328. https://doi.org/10.17161/jis.v18i3

  • Adent, H., & Horne, E., Martin-Cuellar, A., & Seidler, T. (2024). An investigation into how the intense nature of youth sport participation influences women's collegiate basketball players' experiences of burnout. Journal of Amateur Sport, 10(1), 1:23. https://doi.org/10.17161/jas.v10i1.21188

  • Horne, E., Bowers, T. M., & Green, B. C. (2024). Theory of development of and through sport. In E. Sherry, N. Schulenkorf, P. Phillips, & K. Rowe (2nd ed.), Managing sport development: An international approach (pp. 13-29). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303411-3

  • Green, B. C., & Horne, E. (2022). Sport development: A sheep in wolf's clothing; In R.E. Baker, C Esherisk, & P.H. Baker (Eds.), Sport for Development and Peace: Foundations and Applications (pp. 39-60). Rowman & Littlefield.