{"id":1112,"date":"2015-12-04T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T17:46:53","slug":"recent-grad-gets-royals-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/recent-grad-gets-royals-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Grad Gets \u2018Royals\u2019 Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Reading time: 3 minutes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people watched this fall as the Kansas City Royals won the World Series for the first time in 30 years. For one recent ˿����ƵAPP graduate, that baseball championship game was particularly meaningful. Cameron Fagundes, \u201915, began\u00a0working in sales for the Royals just\u00a0three days after graduating with a BS\u00a0from Maryville&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/bu\/sport-business-management\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rawlings Sport Business Management program<\/a> in the John E. Simon School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an intense feeling when your team is in the playoffs, and then the World Series,\u201d Fagundes says. \u201cIt was a fun, unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Front-office staffers like Fagundes may not suit up and play ball, but they\u2019re a valuable part of any professional team. In fact, they typically earn championship rings along with the players. \u201cIf I got one, it would be the cherry on top of a great experience,\u201d he says. As a sales rep, Fagundes\u2019 job is to keep the stands and suites filled with fans and make sure promotions go off without a hitch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the time Fagundes started his job last May, he already had a deep understanding of how sports teams operate.\u00a0He completed internships with St. Louis Sports Commission, St. Louis Football Club, St. Louis Cardinals, Integrated Sports Marketing, and ESPN Radio, and worked\u00a0as a game day assistant with the St. Louis Rams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat people who watch the game don\u2019t realize is everything that goes on behind the scenes before the first pitch is thrown,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Fagundes started his job last May, he already had a deep understanding of how sports teams operate. Instructors in his hands-on degree program included executives from the St. Louis Cardinals and Rawlings. He completed internships with St. Louis Sports Commission, St. Louis Football Club, St. Louis Cardinals, Integrated Sports Marketing, and ESPN Radio. He also held a part-time job as a game day assistant with the St. Louis Rams for two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe internships were a stepping stone for me to learn how the business runs and to gain the core skills that I would need in this industry,\u201d Fagundes says. \u201cThey also helped me with networking. Sports is a very, very small world where people know each other. The networking was very important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Fagundes landed his job with the Royals thanks to his polished networking skills. The winter before graduating, he attended a baseball conference in his hometown of San Diego, Calif., where he met his future boss. The baseball executive was so impressed by Fagundes and his resume that he encouraged him to apply in the spring and hired him just three days after receiving his application.<\/p>\n<p>The sales job is a valuable stepping stone in what Fagundes hopes will be a long career in sports. He says he may stay in sales for a while, but hopes to someday move into marketing and promotions with the Royals, or perhaps a team in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not really about a particular team because wherever I go, I\u2019ll support the team,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about having a job I enjoy and being around people who are fun to work with. Most of all, I love interacting with the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you have dreams of following in Cameron&#8217;s footsteps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/bu\/sport-business-management\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here to learn more<\/a> about our Rawlings Sport Business Management program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharing-default-minimal post-bottom\"><div class=\"nectar-social default\" data-position=\"\" data-rm-love=\"0\" data-color-override=\"override\"><div class=\"nectar-social-inner\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nectar-love\" id=\"nectar-love-1112\" title=\"Love this\"> <i class=\"icon-salient-heart-2\"><\/i><span class=\"love-text\">Love<\/span><span class=\"total_loves\"><span class=\"nectar-love-count\">0<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class='facebook-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-facebook'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='twitter-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Tweet this'> <i class='fa fa-twitter'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Tweet<\/span> <\/a><a class='linkedin-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Share this'> <i class='fa fa-linkedin'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Share<\/span> <\/a><a class='pinterest-share nectar-sharing' href="#" title='Pin this'> <i class='fa fa-pinterest'><\/i> <span class='social-text'>Pin<\/span> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three days after graduation, ˿����ƵAPP alumnus Cameron Fagundes, \u201915, began working with the Kansas City Royals, 2015 World Series Champs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[296,5],"tags":[34,620,33,32,30,31],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-campus-community","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-stories","tag-graduate","tag-internship","tag-rawlings-sport-business-management","tag-school-of-business"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v24.2) - 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