SOP in sports management

1. Q- What is your major? How many units are you currently enrolled in, including our class? How long have you been a student at SBVC?

10. Has our UMUC ENGL degree prepared you to be a more fully engaged citizen and a contributing member of society?

21. Please describe your current professional role, scope of work and principle responsibilities (please do not cut and paste from your CV here). *

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

4. In which areas of development has the applicant progressed most in the time you've known them?

Of course I had dreams of playing professional sport like every other young male in the world but, a wise man spoke to me and he asked me how much my favorite basketball player makes on average, I did the research and Lebron James makes over 300 million dollars annually. Younger me got that information and as expected I held strong on my dreams of being a professional athlete until he showed me 0.0015% of Americans make it into the NBA.”Out of every 10,000 kids playing basketball in high school only 3 will make it to the pros. Note, this doesn’t mean they’re going to stay in the pros more than 5 seconds. This doesn’t mean they’re going to get a sneaker deal and be in a Pepsi commercial This simply means they’ll get drafted.” (Odds of Playing).

The path that lead me to choose Sport Management as a major began at a young age where I demonstrated my admiration for sports. I have been participating in sports my entire life and still do to this day. Unfortunately, my time as an athlete will eventually come to an end and I will need to find an occupation that I have passion for. I asked myself the question, “Why not continue my passion in sports”? Being able to work with sports, but not directly in the spotlight, as an athlete is something I would love to be apart of.

When I first came to the U.S and started to purse a college degree at the University of Iowa, I tried a variety of courses, including chemistry, biology, art, and so forth, and most courses did not elicit strong interests in me but lowered my overall GPA a great deal, until I took a course Motivational Interviewing in which the Professor inspired me in learning how to motivate and pursue clients to resolve ambivalence. I was immediately drawn by the study of persuasion and mental health counseling. After the course, I decided to keep exploring my interests in this field and I was informed that the best major for me would be psychology which later became life-time career goal!

While attending Michigan State University, I have enjoyed many opportunities to learn about kinesiology while developing an interest in sport management. Studying the history of American Sports and the structure of the sports industry has instilled in me a deep appreciation for sports and a desire to learn how a sport manager works in this fascinating system. Hence my desire for pursuing a master degree in your quality program of Sport Management. Once accepted, I wish to develop a solid background in the areas of leadership, management, marketing, law, economics, and finance through academic and hands-on experiences. In addition, I want to engage myself in sport industry internships and related research.

Dear Mrs. Christina, March 7, 2016 It satisfies me to be able to write this letter to inform you the best practices occurring in my classroom. Recently, my students’ wrote an autobiography from his/her childhood and also researched a place he/she traveled to. This activity supported the cross-disciplinary examination of English and History. First, my students’ worked on several worksheets to help them brainstorm on events in his/her life that lead up to his/her autobiography.

In my senior year of high school I decided that my career goal would be something in the sports field, probably as an agent or manger. Unfortunately, by the time I made that decision, I was already committed to a University that did not offer a Sports Management program. In speaking with a counselor about the career path I was interested in, I was informed that getting my undergraduate degree in Business Management would be the route to take if Sports Management was my ultimate goal. And that is exactly what I plan to do! Most people wake up in the mornings and they dread going to work. I vowed to myself that I would not be one of those people; no matter how hard I have to work I will wake up every day eager to go to work. By pursing a Sport Management degree, I will be able to study a field I love, and explore future

Throughout the last few weeks, I got to see how my writing of résumés and statements of purpose grew and developed over the course of the writing process. I have gained the skills to effectively identify my audience, correctly design and organize statements of purpose and résumés, what content belongs in each, what type of language to use based off the document, audience, and prompt, and what conventions to use to best style it and communicate my points.

I found out that I wanted to pursue a degree in sport management. HPS helped me look into possible career pathways within my major. This class helped me to learn more about future options I may have in sport management that I had never heard of. When I wrote my HPS 101 papers I ended up narrowing the list of possible career options for myself.

Describe how you have felt about the topic of research and any changes in viewpoint you are experiencing.

of those rare people who really knows how to "make things happen." I have gone