Shooting Touch Announces Spring Sports Conference
NORWOOD, MA (November 13, 2014) - Shooting Touch, in partnership with Babson College’s Lewis Institute, is proud to announce the launch of its two-day 3rd annual Spring Sports Conference on Saturday, March 28th – Sunday, March 29th, 2015 at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
College students and professionals from across the country will learn from panels of top sports professionals, all sharing industry insight and career advice on “The Business of Sports”. Panels will include footwear and apparel, broadcast and media, entrepreneurship, sports culture, front office, technology, career advancement and social innovation. The expected sold-out event will be capped at the first 400 attendees to register.
A sample of confirmed panelists include: Brian Bilello, President- The New England Revolution, Kevin Eastman, Vice President of Basketball Operations – LA Clippers, Chris Grancio, Head of Global Basketball – Adidas, David Gross, Commissioner – Major League Lacrosse, Adam Grossman, Chief Marketing Officer – The Boston Red Sox, Todd Jacobson, Senior Vice President – NBA Social Responsibility, Jackie MacMullan, Columnist and Commentator – ESPN, Steve Pagliuca, Managing Partner- Bain Capital and Co-Owner- The Boston Celtics, Brad Stevens, NBA Head Coach – The Boston Celtics, Emily Unrue, Vice President Retail Development – Major League Soccer, Linsley Waldron, Executive –Nike Licensed Product and Ethan Zohn, Co-Founder – Grassroots Soccer.
“We are really excited to bring our Conference to Babson this Spring and provide such a potent opportunity for students and professionals to learn from the sports industry’s best of the best,” said Lindsey Kittredge, Director of Shooting Touch. “Sports is an untapped, omnipresent platform for all types of entrepreneurs and there is no better College in the world to partner with on this great event than Babson.”
“We love partnering with social enterprises like Shooting Touch that bring both social and economic value to students and the broader community. Partnering on this conference around the business of sports and sports entrepreneurship is an opportunity for Babson to bring deep knowledge and experience around all aspects of sports management from truly the best and brightest,” said Cheryl Kiser, Executive Director, The Lewis Institute and Babson Social Innovation Lab.
Conference attendees will be able to earn an automatic internship with The Boston Celtics and Major League Lacrosse via a case study competition as well as attend a networking social on the evening of the 28th and learn from human resource executives about career advancement. Registration for the two-day event is $149/college students, $299/professionals and a special offer of $99/Babson College students. A discount of $50.00 will be offered for 24 hours from 11/13/14 to 11/14/14 (It does not apply to Babson Students).
For more information, please visit www.shootingtouch.com.
About Shooting Touch:
Shooting Touch, Inc. was founded in 2007 by Justin and Lindsey Kittredge. As a nonprofit organization, Shooting Touch uses basketball as a platform for health education and social development for youth from under-resourced areas of the world. Since its inception, the organization has grown from a local Boston grassroots basketball organization, to a global NGO with programming on 3 continents, 7 countries, impacting over 3,500 youths a year. With programming in Boston and Rwanda, Shooting Touch is focused on increasing access to the sport of basketball and providing vital on and off court education for positive youth development. Partners include Babson College, Partners in Health, and Suffolk Construction’s Boston Scholar Athlete Program.
About Babson College:
Babson College is the educator, convener, and thought leader for Entrepreneurship of All Kinds™. The College is a dynamic living and learning laboratory, where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real problems of business and society—while at the same time evolving our methods and advancing our programs. We shape the leaders our world needs most: those with strong functional knowledge and the skills and vision to navigate change, accommodate ambiguity, surmount complexity, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. As we have for nearly a half-century, Babson continues to advance Entrepreneurial Thought and Action® as the most positive force on the planet for generating sustainable economic and social value.