“Everyone faces obstacles in life, but how you choose to handle
them is what makes you different from the rest,” says Alison
Adamski ’07CPS,’10MPS a St. John’s University alumna and current
student in the graduate sport management program. Alison speaks
from experience when she talks about facing challenging obstacles.
As an undergraduate, Alison suffered numerous injuries to her lower
back and shoulder while playing on the St. John’s tennis team, but
after a few months of physical therapy Alison led her team to
victory during the BIG EAST Championship in 2008: “Before the
matches at the BIG EAST, I had to take pain medications, and after
each match I sat in an ice bath to numb the pain and get ready for
the next day of competition. This just shows you that if you really
want something, you can do it no matter what hardships you go
through.”
Alison’s motivation and commitment to sports are the
reasons why she decided to enroll in the College of Professional
Studies Sport
Management Masters of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) program. In
addition to attending graduate school, Alison works as an
Administrative Fellow for Compliance at the Metro Atlantic Athletic
Conference: “Working in the sports industry, I see that a lot
of higher level positions that are being offered require or would
prefer if you had a graduate degree in sport management. Gaining
this degree will help me advance in the sports world, by better
preparing me to do the best job I can.”
A former undergraduate student at the University, Alison’s first
choice for graduate school was her alma mater: “I decided to come
back to St. John’s because of the relationships I built with my
professors in the sport management program. The small class sizes
make it easy for students to develop personal relationships with
their professors who are an important resource for when you begin
your job search.”
Alison believes that deciding to pursue her graduate degree in
sport management is one of the best decisions she has ever made.
For anyone interested in taking their sport management education to
the next level, Alison’s words of advice are: “Go for it. It would
be one of wisest decisions you could make and the knowledge you
learn from the professors along with the research you do is very
beneficial. Also, the connections St. John’s has with sports
organizations all over the world will definitely help you get ahead
in your career.”