- Alumni; Online
A handful of years after earning a bachelor's degree in marketing and working in radio and rental car sales, Greg Gosselin, '11, made a U turn in his life.
"I tell a lot of people I had an early midlife crisis," says Greg who enrolled in the online Master's degree program in Sports Management while running a multi-million dollar client services account for Hertz Rent-a-Car at the Naples, Fla., airport.
At Hertz, Greg says, he learned "a ton" and was promoted three times.
"But I wanted to do the sort of thing I grew up passionate about," says the former high school athlete.
So while he fit online graduate school classes into 12- and 14-hour workdays, he began exploring the sports management job market.
"I wanted to make sure I stood out, so weekdays I worked at the airport and on weekends I flew to Washington, D.C. to talk to people in the field. I had my eye on the Washington Capitals," he says.
In his capstone project for the master's degree, Greg built a business plan for a fictitious sports company. It was his favorite class.
"It brought all the classes together and put them into a real world situation," he says.
Not long after graduating, Greg landed his dream job: guest services specialist for the Capitals, an NHL team, where he is responsible for managing 600 season ticket accounts, a $4.5 million business.
"I'm in my dream field," he says. "My goal is to move up."
