The Inside Scoop

 This week has been sports jammed packed for me. I have been able to attend both the Mason career social and the annual SEME Conference. These two events really opened my eyes to what the sports industry is really about. I always heard "you have to network," but WOW I have never met so many people that actually care for what my future is. During the career fair, I had an inside scoop of all the local companies and teams that are eagerly hiring college students and what they look for in potential interns. I met with big companies like Monumental Sports and smaller companies like The Ball Park. It was an honor to be able to hear how interested they were in college students. The event of the week, however, was defiantly the SEME Conference. There were multiple sport industry executives such as, Buffy Filippell from TeamWork Online and people in leadership positions in a specific department like Steve Marino from Washington Wizard Sales department. All of them were so helpful and very insightful. However, the most important connections I made, were from my peers themselves. All the attendees had such amazing stories of how and why they got to where they are now, and it really gave me a clearer idea of what I want to achieve in my career. This conference reminded me why I wanted to do sports management in the first place: to be an agent. Once I started my education, I remember researching what it takes to be an agent, and many were men and lawyers and sports guru, which I am neither, so I decided to turn away from that initial goal and focus on other aspects. After this conference, I really felt the empowerment and motivation to get back on my initial dream and continue my education after undergraduate to become the sports agent I always wanted to become. This week gave light to my future, and I am so excited to continue to look forward.