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The Athlete Management course provides aspiring sports agents the skills, strategies, and requirements to represent professional athletes. This is a premiere, one-of-a-kind, accredited 8-week online interactive course for individuals who are passionate about developing a career as a sports agent, marketing clients, working with sports agents, or operating their own sports agency.

• NFL, CFL, AFL, NFL Europe
• Major League Baseball, minor league baseball, and world baseball
• NHL, AHL, ECHL, UHL, CHL and European hockey
• FIFA, EUFA, AFC, Champions League, MLS, MILS, football (US soccer) globally
• NBA, NBDL, CBA, USBL, WNBA, ABA, European leagues & world basketball
• Olympic Sports, action Sports, extreme Sports
• Tennis, golf, cricket, rugby, boxing, and bowling
• Motor Sports

     SMWW offers the prospective agent what no other agency is willing to share - experience and resources. Dr. Lashbrook and his team are eager to provide the support you need and back it up with their own hands-on experience. This is not an offering you will find anywhere else. In my seven years as an agent I have yet to meet another person or agency willing to share this degree of knowledge and experience, and that alone is priceless in the sports agent industry. A one-of a-kind service by a one-of-a-kind organization.

David T. Glynn, JD
NFL Certified Agent
Glynn Sports Management
Phoenix, Arizona

Course Description:

The Athlete Management course is an overview of the issues involved with athlete management. It is designed as a roadmap of the registration process (required in some states and in the various leagues) and a discussion about the various facets of a subsequent career in the athlete representation field. As sport grows globally, more ethical agents are needed. Whether you are interested in representing just one client part time, or several clients full time, the Athlete Management course will establish you in a sports agent career.

• Compliance with federal, state, and university rules and regulations
• Registration (Federal, state, NFL, MLB, NHL, FIFA, NBA, and others)
• Legal and financial issues
• Recruitment
• Renegotiating and changing agents
• Personal services and counseling for clients
• Post-career counseling (education, job placement) for clients
• Business ethics & conflicts of interest
• History of the sports agent industry
• The challenges of signing a client
• Draft preparation (combine, tryouts, personal training)
• Contract negotiations (draft picks, free agents, re-signing)
• Development of trustworthy personal relationships with athletes
• Marketing & Endorsements
• Regulations (State, campus, NCAA, players associations)
• Approaching the student athlete
• Day to day operations of interacting with and servicing your clients
• Skills necessary to recruit and represent athletes in the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, MLS, FIFA, Olympics, extreme sports, women's sports, and International sports

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Instructors:

Dr. Lynn Lashbrook, President and Founder of SMWW, has outstanding academic qualifications, and over thirty-five years of combined experience as an educator, coach, athletic administrator and a registered NFL agent. Dr. Lashbrook manages the SMWW Agency representing over 200 Agents and hundreds of athletes worldwide. With a career that includes 25 NFL clients from 1st rounders to free agents, Dr. Lashbrook has hand on experience and active interaction with team Manager’s, scouts, major endorsements, first round contracts, pre draft athletic training, the draft, and all SMWW Sports Agency activities . Because he is still in the industry, his teaching is up-to-the-minute and addresses the issues in professional sports today. In an effort to transform the athlete-agent relationship, Dr. Lashbrook emphasizes integrity and ethics in his curriculum and weekly interactive audio chats. You will love his motivational style and passion to improve the agent industry.

Instruction in the course is complimented with our SMWW Staff and faculty, including Matt Brock, Bill Kent and John Print.

Matt Brock, SMWW NFL Consultant, had a successful 8 year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers (89'-94) and the New York Jets (95'-96'). Matt attended the University of Oregon and played Defensive Tackle for the University of Oregon football team. Matt is now an NFL consultant, assists Sports Management Worldwide with training new agents, supporting SMWW Agent Advisors with recruiting and mentoring athletes.

Bill Kent, SMWW Director of Basketball, has led SMWW's basketball efforts as an agent for over five years. Bill currently assists SMWW with training new agents, supports SMWW Agent Advisors with their recruiting and mentoring of professional athletes and is involved in many aspects of the overall operation of the company. Bill has developed an expertise in marketing athletes to teams by utilizing methods used by front office personal in the NBA.

John Print, SMWW Director of Soccer, is a certified FIFA agent representing Sports International Management, a sports agency based in London, England.

John has been involved within the sports industry for over five years, specializing in sports public relations and international sport relations. John holds a degree in Marketing and a Postgraduate Masters degree in Sports Law. John and his partners represent soccer, cricket, and rugby union players, in addition to Olympic athletes.

Course Details

Weekly Audio Chats - A unique aspect of each 8-week course is the opportunity for students to participate weekly in interactive audio chats with fellow students, Dr. Lashbrook, SMWW staff, SMWW agents, certified agents in all sports, professional athletes, and renowned guest speakers. This is a tremendous opportunity to network within the professional and collegiate sports industry and get to know your instructors and fellow students personally via the Internet. This allows ample opportunity to network, ask questions, and discuss aspects of the course openly with instructors and fellow classmates. This is available via any online computer with a microphone. If you are unable to attend the chats, they are archived and you can listen at a more convenient time.

Online Education - This innovative academic course is facilitated through a Web-based educational delivery system. You will enjoy the online discussion boards, weekly readings, weekly quizzes, course projects, and interaction amongst fellow sports business-minded students and faculty. The course content is the foundation to a successful career as a sports agent.

     After completing the Athlete Management course, Dr. Lashbrook and staff have been there for the help and guidance needed to promote my clients, myself, SMWW and the industry. Beginning the first day, I had the information and supplies needed to help my athletes feel like they are part of Sports Management Worldwide. From the business cards to the numerous tryout and camp info I receive, I never feel like I am alone.

Trevis Winkel, Minnesota

Course Certificate & Resume Reference:

Successful graduates of the Sports Management Worldwide courses will be sent a SMWW Certificate of Accomplishment. This certificate represents not only your achievements in the course but also demonstrates your personal commitment to self-improvement and ability to "self train" yourself for higher positions within the sports business industry.

In addition to your certificate, you will be given the stamp of approval by SMWW. This approval includes a personal reference you may add to your resume with contact information for Dr. Lynn Lashbrook and a reference to the mentors of this course.

Course Graduation

After successful completion of the Athlete Management course, graduates are encouraged to seek Agent Advisor status with Sports Management Worldwide. In addition to being a provider of sports management education, Sports Management Worldwide is an international full-service sports agency with an extensive network of Agent Advisors serving athletes throughout the world. Agent Advisors are agents-in-training who co-represent all Sports Management Worldwide athletes. For the small fee of $300 per year, an Agent Advisor can recruit and represent athletes on behalf of Sports Management Worldwide, and share equally in any commission fee paid to the Company by clients successfully recruited by the Agent Advisor.

As an SMWW Agent Advisor, you will be able to recruit and represent professional athletes in all sports. We encourage you to keep your current career while you build your clientele. You will be able to order SMWW marketing materials, scouting reports, personalized business cards, and have access to our resource library that includes player and team contracts, contact information, training facilities, and workout information.

A unique feature of being an SMWW Agent Advisor is access to referrals SMWW receives to athletes who are looking for a sports agent. Athletes from all over the world apply via the Web site. SMWW Agent Advisors have access to the SMWW staff for conference calls, client presentations, and ongoing advice and direction needed to recruit, sign and keep clients. Visit www.SMWWSportsagency.com for more information about the agency.

Hundreds of graduates have gone on to represent professional athletes in football, basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer, boxing, rugby, cricket, women's sports, action sports, Olympic sports, and a variety of other sports all over the world. Many graduates choose to start their own agencies and some go on to work for local agencies, while most stay with the SMWW agency as SMWW Agent Advisors.

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Success Rate

At Sports Management Worldwide we are proud of our graduates of the Athlete Management course. SMWW has been offering this course for a little over three years, and in that short history we have students who represent professional athletes in almost every sport imaginable, on six of the seven continents. Upon completing the 8-week online course and passing the final exam, you could join Sports Management Worldwide as a Sports Agent Advisor and receive SMWW athlete referrals and start recruiting in your area. In a little over 8 weeks you could be ordering your SMWW business cards and posting your bio and picture on our Web site.

However, we don't always measure success in the number of clients you might represent. Some Athlete Management graduates have taken the course to become more knowledgeable in the sports agency business because it affects their current job or dream job. This includes coaches, scouts, player personnel, athletic directors, team management, marketing reps with large endorsement budgets, and famous former professional athletes. Many other students realized their passion for dealing with professional athletes as trainers, financial advisors, brokers, coaches, attorneys, and accountants. The Athlete Management course has had numerous success stories, giving students an ethical compass and a new attitude and skill set in dealing with professional athletes.

You might want to be the next SMWW Agent Advisor that successfully recruits, mentors and represents professional athletes by negotiating their contracts, soliciting endorsements and assisting them in their career. Or you might like to be more knowledgeable about what is needed to assist a professional athlete. Whatever your goal, let us show you how the SMWW Athlete Management Course can be a success for you!

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Cost: $1,450 ($45 additional for international book shipments). Payment plans available (as little as $$495 a month). Length: 8 Weeks; "Live" audio online chats weekly with renowned instructors! Prerequisites: Must be 18 or older to participate and have a passion for sports Payment: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diner's Club, or Wells Fargo Loan CALL TODAY: 1-877-SMWW-NOW (In the UK: 087 12884799) Register Now

Student Loans Available

To apply for a student loan through Sallie Mae, you must first apply for the course with SMWW.

SMWW is pleased to offer student loans available through SLM Financial, the nation's leading provider of education funding. Check here to read more and get started on your loan today!

Academic Credit

Western Oregon University (WOU), a member of the Oregon University System, offers a separate Credit Overlay Program for Sports Management Worldwide's courses. Students interested in obtaining college credit for Sports Management Worldwide courses must apply for the credit with Western Oregon University directly. For more information, please visit the following webpage:

http://www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com/collegecredit.asp