Becoming A Sports Agent

Students will be taken through the four stages of a professional athlete's career in an interactive sports experience. Students will learn how the finest sports agents manage clients at each of these four stages through lectures, guest speakers, reading assignments, and hypothetical walkthroughs.

This course - Becoming A Sports Agent - will equip each student with the knowledge and abilities needed to assist an athlete in making difficult decisions that can cost them millions of dollars and have a negative impact on their public image and career. This course'll walk you through the four stages of an athlete's career, providing a broad overview of amateur and professional sports to help you avoid the pitfalls and traps that so many others have fallen into in the past, as well as providing you with updates throughout the course on the rapidly changing sports world people live in today.

This course will show you how to manage the career of any professional athlete who may seek your guidance at any stage of his or her professional career by analyzing the best practices in management of the superstar athletes with whom Professor Carfagna, Professor Volante, and their expert guests have worked.

Instructors: Peter A. Carfagna, Richard J. Volante

Coursera rate: 4.7/5.0, 131 ratings

Offered by: Case Western Reserve University

Enroll here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sports-agent