Dr. Ed Etzel is an Emeritus Professor of sport psychology at West Virginia University(WVU). At WVU, he taught a variety of sport psychology courses at the graduate level (e.g., counseling college student-athletes, psychological aspects of sport injury, and psychological aspects of performance enhancement, ethics and professional issues, sport psychology doctoral practicum, supervision) and undergraduate psychological aspects of sport and psychological aspects of sport injury.

Dr. Etzel is a licensed psychologist in West Virginia. He served as the psychologist for the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. His duties included being a staff member of the WVU Carruth Center for Psychological and Psychiatric Services. He was the liaison between the center and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. He was involved in the provision of individual and group counseling services for personal, career, and sport performance enhancement concerns and is the NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills program coordinator at WVU. He was listed as a consultant on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Sport Psychology Registry.

He served as chair of the American Psychological Association’s Division 47 Education Committee and served as chair of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology’s Ethics Committee from 1998 to 2007. He was also a fellow in the Association of Applied Sport Psychology.