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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My junior has locked in on this being a great job for herself someday. I can see it - she loves sports, loves coaching, loves helping people, has an extroverted and outgoing personality.

I have no idea how to get from A to B though. I assume going to a university with a robust athletics department that you could intern for would help? Better to play a club sport at a big D1 school or to play on a D3 team? What would one major in? Should she be looking at schools that tout their "sports management" programs?

Any thoughts or advice from people who know college athletics better than I do would be really helpful![/quote]

This is a great q.

I feel this is way more opaque than how to become a GM, sporting director in pro sports which I have lots of knowledge about.

College sports jobs otoh are so opaque.

I wil say do not get suckered into sports management programs.
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M7 mba will help way way more, especiallly mit sloan (sloan connection to the sport world ironically is immense), HBS,GsB. [/b]
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Source? I Googled the athletic directors at a bunch of schools I could think of off the top of their head. This doesn't seem to be the case at all.
Harvard AD- Hofstra undergrad (international business); UMass Amherst master's (sport management)
Yale - Colgate undergrad (BA poli sci and education), Colgate MA History
Brown - BS from Brown in Electrical Engineering; MA in exercise science from University of Florida, PhD in higher education administration from Florida, MBA from Lehigh
Penn AD- BA from Penn in anthropology, MA and EdD in higher education administration from Penn
Princeton AD - BA from Princeton, law degree from Northwestern 
Columbia AD - Bachelor in accounting from BYU, master's in sport administration from Ohio University 
Cornell AD - Bachelor's in history from Franklin & Marshall College, master's degree in counseling from Colgate 
Dartmouth AD - Bachelor's in government, Master's in leadership from Northeastern
Stanford AD - bachelor's in organizational behavior and management from Brown; Master's degree in Sports Administration from Ohio University
Duke AD - bachelor's in accounting from Notre Dame, law degree from Tulane
Notre Dame AD - BA from Notre Dame in economics, Law degree from Stanford
Michigan AD - BA from Michigan in psychology, MSW from Michigan, MBA from Michigan
Georgetown AD - BA from Cleveland State, master's in sport administration from University of New Mexico
Northwestern AD - BS from Vanderbilt in human development, master's in sport administration from Wayne State, doctorate in higher education administration from Arkansas
Wisconsin AD - BS in agricultural economics from Wisconsin, master's in educational leadership and policy from Wisconsin
UVA AD - bachelor's in sociology from Georgia, PhD in Sports administration and management from Florida State
University of Maryland AD - Bachelor's in finance from Georgia, master's in sports management from University of Georgia
UCLA AD - bachelor's in communication from University of North Carolina at Wilmington, master's in sports administration and MBA from Ohio University
USC AD - bachelor's degree from University of Kansas, master's in sports administration from Ohio University
UC Berkeley AD - bachelor's in engineering from West Point, master's in civil engineering from Cornell
Vanderbilt AD - bachelor's in human and organizational development from Vanderbilt, master's in human development counseling from Vanderbilt, EdD in higher education and policy from Vanderbilt

Many of them were college athletes and/or alumnae of the university at which they are currently ADs. But yeah, wide range of majors and grad degrees. [/quote]

I think that pp’s post is more accurate for pro sports executives. 
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