Sports Agency – CA Work Experience Program

Final Day (Vanguard)

Today was the last day of work experience. I met with Brooke and Brett Smith this morning at 9:30 to present my part of the the project. After the project Brett answered a lot of the questions we had. From this experience I was able to get insight into what clients commonly think of when picking agencies. I also got more insight into the day to day actions of an agency. Having the project to work on out of the office gave me feel for what it would be like to set my own hours like an agent. Overall I really enjoyed the experience and extra insight into a world that I’m so interesting to me.

Day 7 (Vanguard Sports Agency)

Because for my work experience at vanguard I am doing a project instead of the interning. Since I finished the majority of the project yesterday, i took the liberty of waiting till 12 before adding my finishing touches to it. The first part of the project was too list football, baseball, and basketball players who came out of North Carolina in the past four years and to identify their earning potential. The second part of the project was to read over Vanguards recruiting packet and address what I found most attractive and what I would else i would wish I had saw. Doing this project gave me a lot of questions for Brett, which is why I’m really looking foreword to meeting with him tomorrow. Most of my questions are in regards to how they go about picking which clients to go after.

Day 6 (Vanguard Sports)

Today I met with Brett Smith from Vanguard sports groups. Vanguard Sports group is a sports agency that represents baseball, football, and basketball. They started their representation of basketball players this year after gaining there first client in Wendell carter. In football they have notable names like Von miller and Kennan Allen as clients. Instead of working at Vanguard Brett gave Brooke and I a project to work on for the next two days. The first project was to review the materials they use for recruiting young clients. Brett thought we would have insight on what is appealing to attracting young athletes since many of the athletes they recruit are the same age as us. The second project was to go through the past few drafts and identify the players coming out of North Carolina, and to calculate agent fees after 4 years.