Sport Management Alliance (SMA)

   The Sport Management Alliance is a student-directed organization dedicated to enhance the professional development of future sport managers. While education is a vital ingredient to achieving success, SMA provides Sport Management majors with outside university experiences. SMA provides students the opportunity to meet academicians and practitioners in the Sport Management field.

   Hands-on experience and networking are two instrumental factors to enhance one's marketability in the ever-changing sport industry. SMA organizes activities and trips that attempt to optimize the interaction between the Sport Management student and professionals in the field. SMA also organizes social trips to Toronto, Erie, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cleveland where students visit sport facilities and learn more about each other.

An executive board of nine individuals is elected each year and provides the officers with experience in leadership and decision making. Monthly meetings are held to keep Sport Management majors aware of activities. Attendance at these meetings demonstrates the student's desire to improve themselves professionally. The meetings also provide the major with an opportunity to network with their peers and professors. The Sport Management Alliance serves as a vehicle to meet other Sport Management majors, professors and practitioners and enables the student to become involved in the sport industry. These activities ultimately provide students with the tools to mold themselves academically and professionally.

2011-2012 SMA Board Initiatives

Create more opportunities for the board to interact with the student body

Incorporate student's opinions into speaker decisions

Increase the variety of SMA speakers

Broaden the way we reach the student body

Increase SMA Meetings attendance by 15% by year end

Develop the first video profile of the Sport Management Department

Meet The Board

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Department of Sport Management
114 West Gym
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
Phone: 724.738.2117 (or 2060)
Fax: 724.738.4858