How to Connect With People in Sports

I think that at this point, most MBA students know that they have to quote unquote network. But sometimes what that actually comes down to or how you're approaching it sometimes gets a little fuzzy and is hard for people to understand. I definitely started with a very wide net of who works in sports and how do I connect with them? For me, being a woman, being a veteran, being an MBA, being a Texas, how can I connect with these four types of people? So that was first and foremost, just trying to meet as many people as she could,. And then on the second part, what I don't think went really well was, especially in an industry like sports