How to Become an Athletic Director with Lee De Leon, Purdue University

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[@Lookout20]

I just want that one day I become a general manager for a professional soccer team . So I can buy and sell players . I have a passion for scouting players on my own time I have always had a skill on finding great players. On a lower level of course.
Thanks for the video.

[@shaeb123]

I would say that’s accurate, and that’s why a college degree is required and a masters preferred because you will learn about all those areas, especially if you’re an athlete yourself!

[@shaeb123]

I just got hired as a middle school Athletic Director. Is that even a thing? It's a new position at the school and I will double as the Office Coordinator. What I'm learning is that AD's are mostly part time unless at a college. Is that correct? Also what resources should I pull from besides UA-cam?

[@racc8050]

How do you become a athletic director heading in my junior year of highschool and I want to follow a career in sports

[@workinsports]

Plan on getting your masters -- all collegiate programs would require it to be an athletic director, many bigger high schools too. It's an administrative job, so focus on business principles: budgeting, staffing, marketing, public relations, media relations, project maagement, facilities management, sales, fundraising etc.. Fundraising is a BIG one.

[@ttrow5009]

Well this is discouraging

[@workinsports]

Do you want to be an athletic director Taylor?

[@ttrow5009]

@@workinsports that was a possible goal of mine for the future, yes.

[@workinsports]

@@ttrow5009 Check out our podcast interview with Tim Duncan, Athletic Director at University of New Orleans -- great dude, super inspiring, has a plan for that! www.workinsports.com/blog/best-of-2020-tim-duncan-university-of-new-orleans-athletic-director-work-in-sports-podcast/

[@BRo-ew6lz]

@@workinsportswould it be possible for someone with a degree in Biology to become an athletic director