SPORTS MANAGEMENT

Sport management involves any combination of skills related to planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading, and evaluating within the context of an organization or department whose primary product or service is related to sport or physical activity (DeSensi, Kelley, Blanton & Beitel, 2003).

Jobs Associated with Sports Management

Athletic DirectorEvent Director Assistant Athletic DirectorSports AgentsMarketersTicket Manager

Athletic DirectorSalary: $99,627 – $121,457

Athletic Director - directs all facets of a university/college.

Manages the entire coaching staffSchedules use of facilitiesTransportationSporting eventsResponsible for fundraisingTicket pricing and distributionPurchase of new equipment

Executive Event DirectorSalary: $100,000 - $150,257

Executive Event Director - provides direction for event selection and operation.

Oversees the full time staffFinal decision-maker on organization and business

matters.Meeting planning/ hotel negotiator/ corporate

sponsorships.

Assistant Athletic Director/ Compliance Salary: $69,432 -$85,400

Advises athletes on academic decisions.Course loads/schedulesRepresentative between athletic department and

prospective student athletes regarding academics makes certain that NCAA rules are followedInvestigates any rules violations and report to NCAAApprove all recruiting visit, and travel done by

coachesTypically reports to a head of a unit/department

Sports AgentSalary: Commission

Sports Agent – represent professional athletes in contract and endorsement and negotiations and other business contracts.

Promote athletes and products Agents work on commission Can make $400 to millions per deal

MarketersSalary: 86,000 to 120,000

Sports Marketers - are the middlemen between sponsors and college or professional sports teams.

Find sponsors and teams and negotiate the contractsPlan eventsManage tickets salesCreate items they think sports fans would buy and

ensure that all items on the market are licensed.

Ticket ManagerSalary: 46,177 – $66,031

Ticket Manager – supervises ticket operations of athletic events.

coordinating and overseeing the mailing of ticket information.

Managing money of ticketsPreparing of audit statementsHires and trains personnel

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