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Sports Management Worldwide is an online sports career education school. We complement your current education and job history. Our goal is to differentiate you and give you the skill set teams use for hiring. The difference is you only need one of our courses to pursue a business job in sports. Our courses teach a very specific skill set you can't find on any campus. In addition, the courses provide you with a mentor who currently works in the sport you are most interested. You will work with this mentor during the entire 8 weeks of the course. This teaching model enables you to get the "what you know" and the "who you know" to work in professional and collegiate sports.
Courses are:
- 8 weeks long
- Online
- Fit into your current work schedule
- Includes cutting-edge technology used by the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, & MLS
- Include live interactive audio chats with well-known sports business executives
- Certified by the Oregon Department of Education
- Can be taken for College Credit (undergraduate & graduate)
Certificate Courses offered include:
· Athlete Management (Sports Agent)
· Baseball Analytics
· Baseball GM and Scouting
· Basketball Analytics
· Basketball GM & Scouting
· Coaching at the Next Level
· Cricket Business Management
· Data Science Analytics
· Digital Video Editing with Synergy
· Digital Video Editing with XOS
· Esports Business
· Football Analytics
· Football Agent Certification Prep Course
· Football GM & Scouting
· HHOF History of Hockey Course
· Hockey Analytics
· Hockey GM & Scouting
· Motorsports Management
· Rugby Business Management
· Salary Capology
· Soccer Analytics
· Soccer Management & Scouting
· Sports Administration
· Sports Betting with an Edge
· Sports Broadcasting
· Sports Media and Communication
· Sports Product Management
· Sports Sales and Marketing
SMWW also offers live Sports Career Conferences at major sports business events including:
- MLS SuperDraft (every January in a different location)
- NFL Combine (every February in Indianapolis)
- NHL Draft (every June in a different location)
- NBA Summer League Games (every July in Las Vegas)
- Winter Baseball Meetings (every December in a different location each year)
We also offer Sports Management degrees that include our courses. We partner with Concordia University Chicago to offer online Masters, and Doctorate in Sports Management.
Become a Sports Agent! In this 8-week online course, you will learn the skills and strategies necessary to represent professional athletes. Recruiting, draft preparation, contract negotiation, marketing, endorsements, sponsorship, and legal requirements to represent professional athletes in each sport. Live audio chat mentors: NFL Agent Dr. Lynn Lashbrook and Joel Corry, FIFA Agent John Print, MLB Agent Oscar Suarez, NBA Agent Bret Kanis, and NHL Agent Manny Schmidt.
Become a Major League Scout! This 8-week online course focuses on scouting baseball talent for major and minor league baseball. This includes saber-metrics, digital video editing used by the top teams, traditional scouting skills, evaluation skills and the business side of managing a team, player personnel and the job of the General Manager. Live Audio Chat Mentors: former MLB Scout Hank Jones and Former LA Dodgers General Manager Dan Evans.
Become an NBA Scout! This 8-week online course focuses on scouting basketball talent for professional and semi-professional basketball. This includes sabermetrics, Synergy Sports Technology, (digital video editing used by the NBA), traditional scouting skills, evaluation skills and the business side of managing a team, player personnel and the job of the General Manager. Live Audio Chat Mentors: Oklahoma City Thunder Special Evaluator Mark Warkentien and NetScouts Basketball Managing Partner Carl Berman.
Become an NFL Scout! This 8-week online course focuses on scouting football talent for the NFL, CFL and various other new football leagues. This includes XOS, (digital video editing used by the NFL & NCAA Division 1 team), traditional scouting skills, evaluation skills and the business side of managing a team, player personnel and the job of the General Manager. Live Audio Chat Mentors: NFL Executive John Wooten, NFL Analyst Mark Dominik, and NFL Scout Russ Lande.
Become an NHL Scout! This 8-week online course focuses on scouting football talent for the NHL, WHL, OHL, AHL, CHL, and various other hockey leagues. This includes Rinknet & Steva, (digital video editing used by hockey teams in the majors, minors, and major juniors), traditional scouting skills, evaluation skills and the business side of managing a team, player personnel and the job of the General Manager. Live Audio Chat Mentors: former Boston Bruins GM & Legend Harry Sinden & NHL Scout Mike Oke.
Learn to scout soccer for the English Premier League and Major League Soccer. This 8 week online course focuses on scouting soccer talent for professional soccer teams all over the world. Learn cutting edge techniques and traditional scouting skills, evaluation skills, and the business side of managing a soccer team, player personnel and the job of Management & the Chief Executive. Live Audio Chat Mentors: The Scouting Syndicate Director of Scouting Matt Martin, FIFA Agent John Print, and ESPN Analyst Tommy Smyth.
This 8-week online course will teach you the art of sportscasting, play-by-play, how to execute coaches shows, pre, and post-game shows, how to conduct weekly sports radio shows, and how to create your own on-air personality. Live Audio Chat Mentor: 25 year sports broadcasting veteran, Dei Lynam.
Ask any GM what position he needs help with and it would be the CBA and the salary cap. In this 8 week, online course learns the CBA, league-wide salaries, minimum team salaries, salary cap computations, exceptions and rules to salary caps, negotiations & renegotiations, extensions & accounting procedures you need to know to be a Salary Cap Analyst. Taught by industry expert, Joel Corry.
In this 8 week online course you will earn the business side of the racing industry, race team management, speedway and track operations, media and event management, motorsports marketing, pit crew, revenue and sponsorships, public relations, social media. This is the course for you if you want to work in:
- Formula One (F1)
- INDYCAR
- NASCAR
- Grand Am Series
- Sports Car Club of America (SCCA )
- A merican Le Mans Series (ALMS)
- National Hot Rod Association (NHRA)
- World Rally Championship (WRC)
- Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix (MOTOGP)
Live Audio Chats with 35+ year veteran, Gary Ellis.
This 8 week online course will train you how to enhance revenues, manage cost effective programs, manage and maintain coaches, game officials and run tournaments and sporting events. This course is designed for those that want to be Athletic Directors, involved in the Olympics, Bowl Games, Governing Bodies, Sports Hall of Fame, and international sports organizations. Live Audio Chat Mentor: Dr. Jim Krause, President of Winning Sports Programs.
This 8 week course is taught by Minnesota Vikings VP Content and Production, Bryan Harper, and President of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Tim Mead, is a one of a kind, course for individuals who are passionate about securing or improving sports communications, public relations, new media, and sports promotions career whether it be internationally, globally, or for an athletic apparel company like Adidas or NIKE, or in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, NCAA, minor leagues, or governing bodies.
Includes courses taught by Sports Management Worldwide. Instructors include sports executives from the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, MLS, NASCAR, and UFC. Cutting edge technology includes software used in the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, and NHL. Get "the what you know" and "the who you know!"
Includes courses taught by Sports Management Worldwide. Instructors include sports executives from the NFL, NHL, MLB, NBA, MLS, NASCAR, and UFC. Cutting edge technology includes software used in the NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS, and NHL. Get "the what you know" and "the who you know!"
The average salary of a major league baseball player rose to $4.4 million per year in 2016, which means MLB teams average $132 million in salary for just the 25 players on their active roster. It is no wonder teams are investing heavily in analytics, they need to ensure their millions are being well spent.
The importance of baseball analytics continues to increase, and there are no signs of it slowing down. The curriculum for this course is specific to baseball and includes:
Week One: Role of Analytics and the Analyst in Baseball Week Two: Introduction to Scoutables Solutions Used by MLB Teams Week Three: Statistics Overview, Common and Advanced Week Four: How to Utilize Trusted Vendors Data Week Five: How to Analyze Data in-depth Week Six: Arbitration, Forecasting, and Defense Week Seven: Advanced Scouting and in-game Preparation Week Eight: Software Development for Downloading and Interpreting Data In addition to the weekly live audio chats with baseball analytics expert Ari Kaplan, students will receive textbooks, a headset and a microphone for the course. The online Baseball Analytics Course includes access to cutting edge revolutionary software and data.
Analytics helps make front office decision making more efficient. Rather than relying on gut feelings or past traditions to decide which players to draft, how to coach them, how to train them and what system to run, analytics helps guide those decisions by analyzing data.
Basketball analytics is a powerful tool and we're going to teach you how to become an expert:
Week 1: Roles of Analytics in Basketball Week 2: Basic Basketball Analytics Framework Week 3: Data, Databases, Statistics, and Programming Week 4: Player Metrics Week 5: Similarity Scores Week 6: Predictions and the Draft Week 7: Tactics and Advance Scouting Week 8: SportVu and Related Analysis
If you are looking for entry-level positions within basketball leagues, associations or teams, with third-party vendors and consultants, or you are just a basketball fan who wants to better understand the tools the pros use to evaluate players, this course is for you.
As part of the course, you will speak with Ben Alamar through weekly audio chats and receive a textbook, headset, and microphone to assist you in engaging with your mentor, and your fellow classmates. You will also gain access to cutting edge techniques and data as used in the NBA.
To be an effective coach requires specific skills which we will teach you as part of this course. But in addition to coaching from the bench, there also other roles that will benefit from the information presented in this class, including:
Recruiting Coordinator Player Development Player Personnel Team Operations Analyst Athletic Director Assistant Head Coach Associate Head Coach Position Coach Special Assistant to the Head Coach
Dr. Jim Krause, President of Winning Sports Programs and Board Chairman of WSE International, brings a wealth of experience to anyone in coaching. Coach Krause has had a 25+ year coaching career with stops at every level, including top assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Oregon basketball team under Jim Haney.
As the importance of analytics increases across all sports, the demand for talented Data Scientists on staff grows.
It’s one thing to understand the concept of analytics, and quite more to manipulate and work through the available data as professional teams do.
Our 8-week online course in Data Science and Analytics is the perfect complement to our sport-specific analytics courses because it teaches you the precise mechanisms and techniques to work with available sports data.
Teams are looking for analysts with specific skills sets – SQL, R, and Python – and we’re going to teach you to use these tools and more!
Kaplan is a leading figure in sports analytics having worked with over half of all MLB organizations and many global sports media organizations during his 30 seasons in baseball. He received Caltech's "Alumni of the Decade" distinction for pioneering groundbreaking sabermetrics used to evaluate pitcher talent.
A known figure in the world of analytics, Sports Illustrated once named Ari "Top Ten General Manager Candidate" and Crain's Chicago Business Journal included him in their annual "40 Under 40" cover story.
The business of esports is expected to surpass $1 billion in global revenue by 2020 – that is crazy growth! As esports grows so has the demand for talented, business-minded people passionate about esports.
Learn everything about esports in our 8-week online course taught by former Pro-game and esports extraordinaire Ben “FooJee” Watley.
Analytics differ from sport to sport, just like each game has a different set of rules, every analytics course has a specific and different set of applications. The curriculum for this course is specific to football and includes:
Week 1: The Unique Challenges Facing the Football Analyst Week 2: History of Football Analytics Week 3: Football Analytics in the Marketplace Week 4: In-Game Analysis and Strategy Week 5: Analytics and Free Agency Week 6: Analytics and the Draft Week 7: Salary Cap Analytics Week 8: Sports Science and the Training Room
As part of the course, you will speak with course mentors Aaron Schatz and Mike Tanier through weekly audio chats and receive a textbook, headset, and microphone to assist you in engaging with your mentors, and your fellow classmates.
When you sign up for our Hockey Hall of Fame course you will interact directly with the Keeper of the Cup, Phil Pritchard via his live weekly audio chats. You’ll learn a wealth of information not only about the Stanley Cup but about the various teams and players who have battled to win the cup over the last 120 years.
Week 1: The Evolution of the Game of Hockey Week 2: Growth Beyond Canada Week 3: The Modern Game Week 4: Traditions, Trophies, Lure, and Superstitions Week 5: international Leagues, NHL Going Global Week 6: Hockey Hall of Fame and its Role Week 7: Preserving the Game at Every Level Week 8: The Future of Hockey and How You Can Grow the Game in Your Area
As vice-president of the Hockey Hall of Fame, one of Phil Pritchard's highest-profile responsibilities is as "Keeper of the Cup", the personal chauffeur and white-gloved protector to Lord Stanley's Trophy.
What analytics does is compare your team vs. the metrics of historically successful teams, and current opponents, allowing you to understand team strengths and weaknesses, adjust organizational player evaluation criteria, improve coaching techniques and alter practice philosophies.
Powerful stuff culled right from available data.
In this 8-week online course, you will learn the essentials of hockey analytics:
Week 1: Role of analytics and the analyst in hockey
Week 2: Introduction to solutions used by NHL teams
Week 3: Statistics Overview: common and advanced
Week 4: How to utilize trusted vendors data
Week 5: How to analyze data in-depth
Week 6: Arbitration, forecasting, and defense
Week 7: Advanced Scouting and in-game preparation
Week 8: Software development for downloading and interpreting data
As part of the course, you will speak with course mentors Mike Oke and Drake Berehowsky plus other guest speakers through weekly audio chats. You’ll also receive a textbook, headset, and microphone to assist you in engaging with your mentor, guest speakers, and your fellow classmates.
Since 2013 Mike Oke has been the general manager of the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) after joining the team three years earlier as the manager of player personnel.
What are advanced soccer stats like Total Shot Ratio (TSR) and Expected Goals (ExG)? How do you calculate them? What role do they play in constructing a team, building a strategy, scouting opponents and evaluating individual players?
These are just a few of the skills you will learn as part of our 8-week online Soccer Analytics course. You’ll learn powerful uses for soccer analytics and soccer operations such as:
What is soccer analytics? (Sabermetrics) Roles of Analytics in Soccer A day in the life of a soccer analyst Advance training in the Wyscout platform Data-driven advanced scouting and in-game preparation How to assess individual players using analytics How to capture & analyze data and video content If you are looking for entry-level positions within soccer leagues, associations or teams, with third-party vendors and consultants, or you are just a soccer fan who wants to better understand the tools the pros use to evaluate players and build a team, this course is for you.
Lee has been with Newcastle United FC for over 14 years as a Technical Scout, Talent ID & Data Analyst, while also consulting in analytics for many soccer operations, including for the South African "Road to World Cup" in 1998, the UEFA Champions League in 2003, the UEFA Cup from 2003 – 2007 and the Welsh FA in 2007.
The fastest-growing sector of the sports industry is in sports betting, expected to advance into a multibillion-dollar operation in the coming years. Your opportunity to learn the business of sports betting, and ride the wave of innovation, is right here in our 8-week online course!
The Sports Betting with an Edge course is designed to provide bettors of all skill levels the chance to expand their knowledge, become more confident in their wagers, understand betting models and how they can build their betting network. The following 8-week is what the course will focus on and help you advance your expertise in the industry.
A co-founder of WoO (Wizards of Odds) Technologies out of Las Vegas and he has accumulated a decade’s worth of experience in sports betting. After graduating from the University of Missouri, Jeremy focused in on his entrepreneurial roots and started working in the Consumer Goods Industry, the Secondary Ticket Market, and rehabbing houses to flip and provide rental income. Jeremy has a knack for finding avenues to generate income and fulfill his business-focused personality.
Graduates of this 8-week online program are currently working at Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, Puma, Reebok, Champion, and Columbia Sportswear. Your success is our goal!
One of your best opportunities to work in sports is on the product side. Big brands like Nike, adidas, Under Armour and North Face have incredible work environments and employ far more people than all the major sports leagues combined!
Managing the sports products that people love to buy, use and wear is a fun and challenging career, and your best chance to make it your reality is by taking our Sports Product Management course taught by industry executive Phillip Hamilton.
Name | Title | Employer | Class |
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Carl Moesche | Regional Scout | Boston Red Sox | 2018 |
Victor Mansure | Athletic Director | Gallaudet University | 2018 |
Raymond Haija | NFLPA Agent | MGA Sports | 2016 |
Jay Decker | Account Executive | Philadelphia 76ers | 2016 |
Chris Zorich | Athletic Director | Chicago State | 2016 |
Scott Powers | Senior Analyst Research and Development | Los Angeles Dodgers | 2015 |
Raoul Fulcher Jr | NFLPA and CFLPA Agent | 2014 | |
Mark Warkentien | Director of Player Personnel | New York Knicks | 2012 |
Brett Breece | Premium Sales | Seattle Mariners | 2010 |
Tyson Lamp | Corporate Sales Executive | San Francisco 49ers | 2008 |
Alexa Atria | Senior Account Executive & Sponsorship Services | New York Yankees | 2007 |
Joe Aloisi | Sports Agent representing Miami Dolphins QB Matt Moore | SMWW Agency | 2007 |
Shane Brady | NFL Agent | ||
Jeffrey Garrison | Ticket Sales Representative | Kansas City Chiefs | |
Vadim Barlamov | CEO | Sportslav |