To Scott Kevy, sports can be used for good. It can bring a people in a community together.

Kevy, a senior sport management major, received the Michigan Sports Business Conference’s BIG Initiative Award on Oct. 24. The award recognizes 10 students in the U.S. and Canada who have made a difference in the sports industry.

Kevy has interned at Turner Sports and at Monumental Sports & Entertainment. He’s also the marketing chair of the Syracuse University Sport Management Club and is a digital media intern with SU Athletics.

He said he believes his involvement and hard work with these organizations is what helped him to win the award.

“I also went far and beyond what was expected,” Kevy said. “I didn’t just want to get the task done. I wanted to get the task done while making my mark.”

Kevy, who has always been an avid sports fan and an athlete, said sports and sports management are extremely important to him and play big roles in his life.

“Sports reach everyone on a whole unlike anything else in the world,” Kevy said.

The senior was interested in becoming an intern at SU athletics specifically because he wanted to take what he learned in the classroom to the field. He wanted to use the skills he learned from his information management and technology minor and combine them with his knowledge from his sports management major.

Kevy’s advice to other students who are interested in pursuing sports management as a career is to utilize all of the university’s resources it offers to students.

“Be sure to step outside your comfort zone and to take advantage of all the opportunities on and off campus that your programs offer,” Kevy said. “I wouldn’t have been able to make it to where I am today if it wasn’t for the whole Syracuse family that is willing to help you.”

In the Nov. 10 article “Senior wins sports industry award,” the name of SU’s Sport Management Club was misstated. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

Published on November 10, 2014 at 12:01 am

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