Stephen J. Langendorfer, PhD, editor of the International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education, is professor of kinesiology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, U.S.A. He has earned degrees from SUNY Cortland, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in aquatics, motor development, and measurement with research that blends motor development and aquatics by examining how aquatic readiness and water competence change developmentally over the lifespan as impacted by task and contextual factors. He has published numerous scholarly articles and coauthored Aquatic Readiness: Developing Water Competence in Young Children. He has earned recognition for his international service to aquatic agencies such as the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, U.S. Lifeguard Standards Coalition, YMCA of the USA, and Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming 2010 with the Golden Whale Award from the Commodore Longfellow Society and Paragon Aquatic Award from ISHOF. He is a member of the BGSU Masters swim team as well as an avid year-round bicyclist, canoeist, and wilderness camper.