Diverse Opportunities in Sports Management: A UConn Experience

The world of Sport Management encompasses many elements. Often the best way to figure out what element is the best fit is to try a little bit of everything. Enter Taylor Kielpinski-Rogers. In Taylor’s time at UConn, she pursued a variety of opportunities. She was a Sport Management major, taking classes such as Sport Law, Sport in Society, Sport Communication, and more. She was an administrative assistant for the men’s basketball program for three years, doing things such as coordinating travel arrangements, preparing necessary documents, giving campus tours to recruits, and more. She also was on the cheerleading team for all four years, cheering for football and basketball. She was named captain senior year, calling that “really exciting” and a “great honor.” And for the games she was not cheerleading, she

From her time at UConn to her time now with the Celtics, Taylor did as much as she could, and worked hard at everything she did as well. Companies and organizations value experience, especially if you have a lot of it. One thing she said in response to being asked if graduate school was almost necessary at this point was that it depends from person to person. If someone is really excited about continuing their learning and wants to go to graduate school right away, that can work for them. But other people want to get out there and start actually working after they complete their undergraduate degree, focusing on more of the real life applications of what they learned in school, and that is what Taylor did. And that is an important point, because there is a growing perception out there that getting a graduate degree is becoming necessary to get internships and jobs. But Taylor is a clear example of what can happen when someone makes their mind up and takes advantage of all the opportunities they