Another Sports Management tip

Ok I feel so cocky saying this, but one reason that I feel that I am an asset to work in the WPS is that I don't have a women's soccer background.

Sounds strange right?

My diversity in sports has allowed me to apply things that I have experienced at college football, or basketball, or the NBA, or MLB or auto racing to things that the WPS is doing.

I wanted to find good promotions. I decided that minor league baseball might have some good ideas so I researched to see what they did. At work I am trying to get alumni groups to games, so I noticed that the Travelers Championship is selling ticket packages to alumni groups so I will try to emulate them.

I also feel that because I have some experience doing things in multiple parts of sports that I can better understand how all the different parts interact with each other. I don't want to be pigeon holed into a certain job. I want to be able to do various things. I don't want to specialize at all.

I think it would be good for me to get some experience in something completely different than soccer for my next internship. It's not to say I don't enjoy what I do, because I love working with the Breakers and YOU KNOW I LOVE UCONN WOMEN'S SOCCER (I'm there and in grad school through the 2011-2012 season). However, next summer it would be good for me to work at say the Traveler's Championship or at a NASCAR track or for a MLB, Minor League team, NFL or NBA team. It would be great experience to see how they operate. You would be surprised, you can take something from the operation of a NASCAR race and apply it to a Women's Soccer game.

I'm a firm believer that you learn something from every new thing you do and most especially every person you meet. I've learned something from every person I have met. Sometimes I learn about life, sometimes I learn about how I don't want to act, sometimes I see how I might be viewed by others, sometimes I learn a lesson. I always learn something. Sometimes it's a positive thing that I learn, sometimes it's not. Most people I have met lately have taught me good things.

But I always learn something from every person I meet. I learn something from every new thing that I do. I believe that one way to be successful in sports or any business is to have a understanding of the whole picture and how you fit in to that picture. I also think it's important to apply things you learned somewhere else to a problem now. Thinking out of the box is one of the most important things I learned from my entrepreneurial class in the school of business.