HHP's Dan Matheson serves as panelist for St. Ambrose University Sport Management Conference

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Dan Matheson
Dan Matheson

University of Iowa Professor Dan Matheson served as a panelist at the St. Ambrose University Sport Management Conference, “Buzz into the Sport Industry,” on Nov. 10.  Fellow panelists included Mike Zapolski (Director of Athletics, Augustana College); Tyler Gilles (Director of Sales, Quad City Mallards); and Lynn Hunt (VP of Sales, Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau). The panelists discussed their career paths, advice for students, and thoughts on various sport industry trends, and answered several audience questions.

Once the panel concluded Matheson visited one-on-one with students to answer specific questions about the sport industry and the Iowa Master's program in Sport Management. It was a night of mentoring, networking and outreach that helped build relationships and opportunities for future collaboration between the Sport Management programs at the UI and St. Ambrose.

Matheson is a lecturer and the director of Sport & Recreation Management Program within the Department of Health & Human Physiology, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.