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Sports Management
Sports Minor
Author: The Crusader Staff Writer, Jake Snelgrove
At Belmont Abbey College, with countless opportunities to learn and set yourself up for the future with dozens of majors and minors to select from. The Abbey is proud to offer thirty-nine total minors open to anyone willing to work to achieve them. You can choose anything from philosophy and motorsport management to mathematics.
With that many minors offered, paired with the total undergraduate student total being under 2,000 students, you will never have to worry about being unable to get accepted into a minor program. For today’s feature presentation, we will deep dive into the Sports Management Minor and everything that goes into it.
With a Sports Management Minor at Belmont Abbey College on your post-grad resume, you will have much better access to the sports business world than ever before. Taking a sports minor requires you to take a minimum total of at least five classes. These classes include History, Culture, and Philosophy of sport, where you learn all about the first ever documented sports in history up to the present-day sports we all know and love today.
Introduction to Sport Management and three other 300 to 400-level classes are the different class requirements, where you have a selection that ranges from Intro to Motorsport to Sports Broadcasting classes. Every academic department here at the Abbey showcases very talented and highly praised professors, and the Sport Management department is no different.
- Trey Cunningham
- Dana Catchpole
- Lindsay Hofferberth
Listed above are three of Belmont Abbeys’ finest sports management professors, as we highly recommend taking at least one class with each of them.
The sports department is proud to have professors with professional backgrounds in sports media, broadcasting, production, and sports competitions. With the vast collection of knowledge and hands-on experience, each professor can help our students learn and prosper as much as possible.
Belmont Abbey College prides itself on giving every one of its students the highest form of education possible and has done so for many years. With just under forty total minors offered, the Abbey ensures that its students have a wide variety of what they can choose to learn about. The Sports Management Minor is one of the best to take, as it is also one of the more popular minors taken by the students here. The professors and staff are all top-of-the-line and overqualified to teach their classes, which shows in the success of sport management students post-graduation.
This article was originally posted in the Spring of 2023, Issue 1 of The Crusader Newspaper. Download the full issue here.
Double Major of Sports Management and Business Management
Author: The Crusader Staff Writer, Frankee Hendricks
Are you thinking of pursuing a career in either the sport or business world? The dual major of sport management and business management is great for anyone looking to pursue a career in sports. The two majors overlap in many ways so that the class load is not nearly as bad as it seems. Students should take full advantage of this convenient way to get two majors out of their four years at Belmont Abbey.
For the sport management major, it is required to take EC201(Introduction to Economics), BU315W (Business Communications), and BU265 (Spreadsheet and Data). All three of these are also required for the business management major. If you take these classes, they will count towards both majors! The sport management degree alone also required a lot of electives in order to get to the 120 hours. Therefore, the extra classes that you would need to take for business management can be filled up by sports classes towards your sport management major.
Again, taking these courses just one time will go towards both majors! These majors also only require one internship collectively! This was actually my deciding factor for deciding to double major. It would seem as though you had to do two separate internships, one for each major, when in actuality, it is just one for both! It is a huge time saver!
There are so many careers in the sports management field that require a degree in business to be successful. Almost every aspect of sports includes business in some way, whether that is management of recreational facilities, social media marketing, or even spot finance. Having both of these majors on your resume will give you an edge over your peers.
Overall these two degrees go hand in hand, and it would be majorly beneficial for anyone to take advantage of this opportunity if you are in school for either of these majors alone. It is a great way to maximize your time at Belmont Abbey College.
This article was originally posted in the Spring of 2023, Issue 1 of The Crusader Newspaper. Download the full issue here.
Sports Management Minor
Author: The Crusader Staff Writer, Madison Jones
The Belmont Abbey College Sports Management Minor offers a curriculum that allows for students to grow and adapt skills that will help further them in their careers. With a variety of course, professors, and networking connections, this minor is one that allows students grow both
personally and academically. There are two required courses for this minor, one being SM 200, which is titled History, Culture, and Philosophy of Sport, and the other is SM 201, which is Introduction to Sport Management. These two-course set the base for students to be able to learn skills such as organizational theory and leadership in sports, sports marketing, and sport facilities and event management.
The Sport Management department has professors all will a different background and skill set. Dr. Trey Cunningham is the chair and associate professor of the department and has a background in sport security. Dana Catchpole is an assistant professor with a background in risk management and human resources. Lindsay Hofferberth is also an assistant professor with a very strong reach into professional sports teams based in Charlotte. And Quinn Beekwilder is both an assistant professor and coordinator for the sport management department; he is known for his vast experience in the motorsport field.
The Sport Management minor offers a wide range of benefits, from the skills that a student will learn throughout the courses to the skills that can be taught from the various backgrounds of each of the department’s professors. This minor offers a unique experience because it allows for students to learn both in and out of the classroom by taking the information that is presented in lecture and giving them the opportunity to apply it towards real-world situations and experience.
This article was originally posted in the Spring of 2023, Issue 1 of The Crusader Newspaper. Download the full issue here.
