Sports related majors

twoinanddone
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:31:14 +0000

That’s too bad,@Madison. My college roommate was a Recreation major (and I knew a lot of her friends). She had entry level jobs as the aquatic director of beautiful new rec center (Lotto funds go to parks and recreation in our state), and has continued with similar positions for 40 years. My brother runs his very successful sport league, and before that worked for city parks and rec department. When I lived in California, our town posted a position for a director and it paid $100,000+ (of course lifeguards in California can make $150k+ as some are fire department employees).

My daughter’s roommate and teammate is a Sports Management major right now. This summer she had an internship with a professional team. I’m not sure how much she made, but she had fun.

It takes a lot of the same skills as sales to be successful in sport management. It’s not a 9-5 job - lots of weekends, late nights, travel. Sounds exciting, but it’s tiring. You have to like people, to talk to the ranting parents and coaches, work out disputes, think outside the box if it is raining or snowing or teams don’t show up or want exceptions to the posted rules.

Another brother is a referee, and makes a living at it. He makes more organizing a tournament than actually being on the field, but does both.