Ohio College students get a glimpse into the Detroit athletics world many thanks to two OHIO alumni

Learners in Ohio University’s sports activities management fraternity, Sigma Alpha Sigma Mu (SASM), just lately experienced the possibility to vacation to Detroit to network with OHIO alumni Brad Fain (BSSPS ‘13) and Molly Wurdack-Folt (BA ‘05, MBA/MSA ‘08) and study about the sporting activities administration world at a qualified amount in late March.

SASM is the initial experienced sport management fraternity in the nation. SASM delivers a platform for really included and academically superb undergraduate sport management students to put together and establish skillfully for a occupation in the sporting activities marketplace. It is affiliated with the Department of Athletics Administration within just the College or university of Organization. 

The SASM students met and spoke with Fain, Wurdack-Folt and other sporting activities experts they do the job with about the ins and outs of the athletics marketplace, key organization functions, and crucial vocation and existence advice. The learners were also capable to tour key specialist sports services in the Detroit area and attend Detroit Pistons and Detroit Purple Wings game titles.
 

Lily Wittman, a sophomore researching sport administration, advertising and marketing and social media, joined SASM spring semester of her freshman 12 months at OHIO and was recently elected president of SASM for the 2022-2023 academic yr.

“Myself and the rest of our govt board attended the excursion considering the fact that it was our initially big vacation publish pandemic limitations,” Wittman said. “We worked thoroughly with our school advisor, Matthew Cacciato, to make this excursion come to daily life.”

“I am incredibly grateful that we experienced the possibility to journey to Detroit and expertise almost everything collectively. It served as an remarkable bonding vacation, as nicely,” Wittman continued.
 

Fain is the vice president of ticket sales for the Detroit Pistons. A graduate of the OHIO sport management software, Fain has not too long ago been acknowledged as a 2022 Forbes 30 Below 30 receiver and in the 2019 Athletics Small business Journal’s Inaugural Class of New Voices Less than 30.

“I want other Bobcats to have accomplishment,” Fain explained of sharing his time with the students. “To be in a position to converse to them and supply them with information, it was thrilling.”

“The same discussions they’re possessing with me, I was able to have with other alums just before me,” Fain reported. “So, I sense like, due to the fact of the method I was elevated in, it is my obligation to help get on that part way too. For the reason that I have been very privileged through my job far too.”

Wurdack-Folt, the vice president of corporate sponsorship activation at Ilitch Athletics & Amusement, which oversees the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers, also shared her know-how with the students for the duration of the excursion and observed it essential to do so.

“I was so impressed by college students that have been freshmen, to individuals that were seniors. Just in normal, they were a actually wonderful team, and the college really should be truly very pleased that they are deciding on terrific college students to be a section of that method,” Wurdack-Folt reported. “I believe about all of the individuals who served me during my journey and nonetheless do enable me along my journey, that I proceed to give again to the learners that are in that method, in what ever way that may possibly be.”