Sport management

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Do you live and breathe sport?

Imagine turning your passion into a fulfilling and exciting career. Consider the huge number of major sporting activities—V8 Supercars, triathlons, marathons and football grand finals to name a few—held every year. Sport is a central feature of Australian lifestyle, and if you're keen to help organise, manage and promote this industry, studying sport management is the ideal option for you.

With a degree from Griffith, you'll develop specialist knowledge of the sport industry combined with solid business skills to enable you to manage professional and not-for-profit sport organisations, athletes, sporting events and more.

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Griffith's sport management degrees will provide you with the sound business management knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in sports management. You'll learn from staff with qualifications enriched by ongoing research. Our academics have provided marketing and management solutions to business, community and government organisations dedicated to the delivery of sport, events and services such as the International Olympic Committee, the Australian Sports Commission and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

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Liam Faithful

A degree in sport management enabled Liam Faithful to combine his love of sport with a future career. Liam complemented his studies with an internship at the Queensland Reds rugby union team, which enabled him to get a grasp on the operations of the club, undertaking everything from data analysis to event preparation. 'The highlight of the internship was definitely seeing what happens within a professional sporting club. For me, the ultimate goal is to work in a similar organisation so this was a really good stepping-stone,' he says. Liam's dream came true after graduation when he was offered a position as a sales and memberships consultant with professional Australian rugby league club, the North Queensland Cowboys.

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Sport is big business

Griffith sport management graduates will find opportunities in planning and management of sporting facilities, athlete representation, event management, sports marketing and media relations, sports tourism management, project management and sports policy development. You'll find roles with amateur and professional sports clubs, anti-doping agencies, sports governing bodies, state and federal sports and recreation departments, sports tourism operators, local governments, sports broadcasters, sports stadiums and other sporting facilities, sports magazines and sports merchandisers.

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