The American Equipment Managers Association

The purpose of the Athletic Equipment Managers Association (AEMA) is, as a national organization, to promote, advance, and improve the equipment managers’ profession in all of its many phases. Members of the AEMA will now be working with American Football Monthly to help educate and inform AFM subscribers about how to better address equipment-related issues.What is the background of the AEMA? In 1974, 25 equipment managers became the first members of the organization at their first ‘convention’ in Kansas City and named the organization the Athletic  Equipment Managers Association. As the AEMA continued to grow its membership, the organization continued its cause for participant safety.In 1980, the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) – whose primary mission is to reduce athletic injuries and death through standards and certification