The purpose of this study was to identify standards for effective security management of university sport venues. Standards were developed through a series of interviews and a three-round Delphi study. Purposeful sampling was used to select participants for both the interviews and Delphi panel. Four sport security personnel participated in the interview process and an initial set of standards were developed and used for the Delphi study. The twenty-eight member Delphi panel included the athletic facility manager, campus police chief, local sheriff, and local emergency management director responsible for game day security operations at seven state-supported universities in Mississippi. Importance ratings for developed standards were assessed on a five-point Likert scale during Round 2 and 3. This study identified 134 standards in eleven categories: perimeter control; access control; credentialing; physical protection systems; risk management; emergency management; recovery procedures; communications; security personnel; training, modelling and simulation; and WMD-toxic materials protection.