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Jul 29, 2015 Sports Management Conversation

Meet Ben from Florida

Ben is an Explo Sports Management student on the Yale campus. A huge fan of many Floridian sports teams (and one Texan football team), he is at Explo Sports ...

Adrienne Poon

Ben is an Explo Sports Management student on the Yale campus. A huge fan of many Floridian sports teams (and one Texan football team), he is at Explo Sports Management to help hone his lifelong passion into a future career.

I’ve always loved sports since I was a kid. My father has been in the sports business for a long time. He’s a professor of sports management. Just watching sports games with him, going to sports games with him… It made me find out I really love sports, so sports management seemed like an interesting idea. I found this program on the Explo website and I had some family who had come to Explo before, so it seemed like an interesting thing to do. It seemed like a good time, so I decided to try it.

I don’t know if I want to do sports management as a job yet. I might want to do something more along the lines of broadcasting, but the skills and ideas that we’ve learned in Explo Sports Management will definitely help me with anything, no matter what it is, that I do in the industry. I’ve always loved baseball — so possibly broadcasting in that area. But I’m open to any area, especially with what I’ve learned here.

I’ve learned all sorts of things. We’ve done negotiations of salary deals, we’ve learned about endorsements, we’ve learned how to present, we’ve done presentations to executives from NBC sports, and we’re meeting with members of the Red Sox business team soon to discuss marketing for the baseball team. It’s been very useful and helpful.

This is definitely my passion; I definitely love it. I think it’s what I want to do in the future. I’m so glad I’ve gotten the opportunity to do it here at Explo. I’m really lucky that I found Explo and I’ve been having a blast here.

Adrienne Poon