Industry Partners

• Provide opportunities for students to put their skills in motion and build their futures.
• Justy Carruthers ’25 was an intern for the Syracuse University football team when Fran Brown was hired as head coach. Now she is the youngest director of on-campus recruiting at a Power 4 school.

• As part of their degree requirements, sport management students complete a 12-credit Senior Capstone to gain valuable hands-on experience in the sport industry.
• Sport management major Edu Pena Rollet’s Capstone with the Brooklyn Football Club in the spring of 2025 gave him valuable insight into what drives revenue in a professional sports setting and led to a full-time job with the team.

• With a blend of analytics, strategic planning, and research, our students will deliver actionable insights to help your organization, team, or league solve real-life challenges.
• Sport analytics students provided data analysis models to the United Football League. During the 2025 season, the teams and their coaches leveraged the students insights, which may eventually find their way to the NFL.
• As part of the first partnership of its kind between an American college or university and a Japanese professional sports team, sport analytics students are utilizing data analysis to impact the performance of the Kumamoto Volters basketball team.

• Enhance the student experience on immersion trips across the country and around the world by providing behind-the-scenes access to facilities, departments and operations; sharing industry insights into organizational strategy; and facilitating networking sessions.
• On this spring break trip to Italy, sport analytics students witnessed first-hand how data is revolutionizing the highest level of soccer.
• Six female sport management students attended the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit and spent three days working a variety of volunteer roles, visiting with female executives from the NBA’s Detroit Pistons, and networking with Syracuse University alumni at a dinner hosted by David Katz, chair of the Visit Detroit Board of Directors.

• We’re looking for imaginative partners like you to share your knowledge with students in a classroom or collaborate with a faculty member for classroom-driven projects.
• During a visit with Falk College students, running legend and Syracuse University alumna Kathrine Switzer delivered this message: “What’s out there may be scary, but you have to face it and that’s what opportunity is. When the world won’t give it you, you have to go out and get it.”
• Students in the Department of Sport Management’s Sponsorship and Promotion class partnered with New York Yankees player Oswaldo Cabrera to help build his brand and create his marketing deck.

• Find your next superstar employee! We welcome organizations to meet with students virtually or on campus through recruiting visits, career fairs, and networking events.
• The Syracuse University Career and Internship Fair is where students meet their future.
• The Office of Student Success in Falk College helps students build their career-ready skills.

• Research experience allows students to better understand published works, balance collaborative and individual effort, grow interest in graduate studies, and influence career trajectories.
• The Sports, Entertainment and Innovation Conference (SEICon) is a partnership between the Falk College of Sport and UNLV Sports Innovation Institute in collaboration with the Las Vegas-based guest experience agency Circle, and it serves as a platform for students and professionals to discuss strategies and innovations shaping the future of the sports and entertainment industries.
• Sport management major and Syracuse University women’s soccer player Ava Uribe became the first female lead author to win the prestigious MIT Sloan Research Paper Competition.
• Using AI and biomechanics, Exercise Science Professor Yaejin Moon and student researchers are helping to prevent fall-related injuries in older populations.

Our all-star lineup of industry leaders includes Hall of Fame basketball coach and Adjunct Professor Jim Boeheim, who’s teaching a class on leadership; NBA Director of Data Strategy and Analytics Drina Domic, a sport management alumna who’s teaching a class on basketball business analytics; and Syracuse University alumnus Nick Monzi, the CEO and Co-Founder at Learn Fresh who’s teaching a class on innovative sport ventures.

Global esports and gaming organization Gen.G held a two-day Campus Takeover to highlight career opportunities in the esports industry; celebrated chef and former Syracuse University football star Derrell Smith demonstrated his award-winning meatball recipe for the Joan Christy Lecture Series; and Women Leaders in Sports CEO Patti Phillips met with students for a networking and professional development event.

We’ll coordinate with our campus partners to host larger events for the entire campus community and greater Syracuse community. The inaugural NIL Summit brought Syracuse University student-athletes together with corporate brands for networking, education, and NIL development, while the All-Star Food Fest before a Syracuse women’s basketball game at the JMA Wireless Dome provided an opportunity for children to experience international culture through food.