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Sports managers must be able to manage, negotiate, and lead others because sports managers are leaders who take their clients to victory. Sports managers work with athlete clients to execute contracts, promotions, including press releases, interviews, special days at arenas and other promotional events.
Sports managers need to know their sport up and down -- from every rule in the book to the most current events.
Sports managers are:
- Agents who represent single players or whole teams
- Coaches who teach and guide players
- Administrators who work with teams, leagues and arenas
- Managers who make decisions for teams
- Officials who decide regulations and rules
- Journalists who cover games
- Run their own consulting agencies
From agent to coach and from office administration to standing on the field with your team, job descriptions for sports managers are widely varied.
Because there are so many jobs open to those in this field, salaries vary widely but, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, sports administrators made an average of $75,780 in 2006, public relations specialists $49,800 in the same year and coaches and scouts earned a median of $27,840.
Sports management is a wide open field with so many different, necessary skill-sets that almost anyone can find the job for them.
Can you use your knowledge of sports and athletics to take charge? Can you step up and help your client succeed? Can you manage a player, an arena or a team? Graduates of sports management programs can become promoters, sports journalists, agents, coaches or even start their own consulting agencies.
What are you waiting for?