Manhattan Sports Business Academy is excited to unveil the members of our Class of 2018! In the program’s seventh year, MSBA received nearly 1,500 applications worldwide for our summer immersion program taking place June 10th – August 4th. Candidates were assessed on a variety of factors including academic performance, extracurricular participation, campus leadership efforts, relevant work experience, industry knowledge, and …

Sports have always fueled me. For 18 years of my life, I saw the world through a basketball-oriented lens. Every goal, every dream, every thought about the future revolved around that one passion. That’s what it was … a passion. Anybody who plays a sport for the pure love of the game knows there is no feeling quite like it. …

My MSBA Certificate of Completion sits proudly atop my fridge; it’s the only piece of decoration up in my new apartment, and it’s just enough to make it feel like home. The same four signatures that graced my initial acceptance letter also validate the bottom of this certificate, and the events that occurred between receiving these two pieces of paper …

Mike Singletary – the Hall of Fame Chicago Bears linebacker – once said, “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” As the MSBA Class of 2017 descended upon The Ainsworth for our Commencement Celebration, our “opportunity to play” was all I could think about. The panels. The Speakers. The companies. The Mentors. …

And in the blink of an eye, we went from MSBA students to MSBA Class of 2017 alums. I wish the saying “all good things must come to an end” wasn’t true, but as good of a thing as this summer has been, I’m slowly but surely accepting the fact that it can’t last forever. Change is inevitable, and goodbyes …