SportsCAP
Sports Career Awareness and Placement
STAFF
Program
Director:
Kevin
J. Matthews
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"I appreciate the opportunity to work with Richard Lapchick, and have offered to chair the business development committee of SportsCAP. I will do my best to develop a business opportunity framework to promote minority business opportunities with the professional sports leagues." �
Drew Pearson |
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SPORTSCAP
Director Kevin Matthews
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Program Summary
SportsCAP, the Sports Career Awareness and Placement program, was created by Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society and is designed to provide women, people of color, and people with disabilities with improved access to the sporting industry ranging from internships to high-level management, legal and medical positions.
The program consists of a coalition of national organizations, some of whose members are qualified for a wide range of employment opportunities in the business of sport by virtue of their education, experience, and areas of expertise.
SportsCAP is directed by Kevin J. Matthews.
Background
Many business-oriented opportunities are available in the world of
sports in the legal, marketing, promotions, management, accounting and
other fields. All larger college athletic departments, professional teams
and their leagues employ specialists in these areas.
SportsCAP recognizes that there are individuals who possess the skills and experience specified in the job descriptions for professional positions, but who have not had the information necessary to obtain these positions. The sports industry has never had a systematic way to find such professionals when they commit to looking for people of color and women to fill these positions.
While players' positions are earned by skill and merit, team and department administrators are often chosen as a result of their industry contacts. Thus, a high percentage of white males have always controlled the sports business.
This has been traditionally shown in the Center's annual Racial and Gender Report Card.
Program
Operation
To address this problem, SportsCAP has created a job/resume bank that
makes available the names of women, people of color, and people with disabilities
with the requisite skills, education and experience to the sporting industry;
especially college athletic departments, pro teams and their league offices.
The program is currently sending job weekly job postings to the SportsCAP membership. These opportunities include positions on pro sports teams, collegiate athletic administrations, sports marketing firms and sporting goods manufacturers.
The planned SportsCAP.net website will provide this service for the membership as well as allow teams, administrators, and sports industry companies will be able to post positions as well as browse prospective employees.
Objectives
The goal of the SportsCAP program is simple: to ensure employment opportunities
available in the sports field are made known to qualified women, people
of color, and people with disabilities and that the sports industry knows
where to find a diverse pool of applicants.
The objective of SportsCAP is to help the sports industry better reflect the diversity of our country.
Northeastern
University's
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SPORT IN SOCIETY
360 Huntington Avenue, Suite 161 CP
Boston, MA 02115-5000
Phone: (617) 373-4025
Fax: (617) 373-4566 / 2092
E-MAIL US at [email protected]