Edit - My mate at Loughborough wrote down that he was on a YTS at Aston Villa (not Aston Villa reserves) at the football team trials. Also, there were prob about 400 people at the trials, not 1000.
My blog - blackbeltwhite...
I currently work in online marketing, after studying Sport Science at Loughborough University.
After graduation I worked in a hotel gym for around 5 years, then a bank call centre for 4.5 years. I retrained at age 30 - doing a post graduate diploma in digital marketing.
Although the course was challenging and informative etc. I found it was a poisoned chalice in the job market - in the sport & sport science industry I had no experience and in other industries, people assumed I wouldn't stick around for long because of my very niche qualifications.
I would suggest having a plan and a back up plan in terms of your career, before deciding on what to study at university. The 2 universities that I attended, do not, as far as I know, provide any support after graduation for finding a job - they basically just want you to pay your tuition fees and leave. The local uni in Wrexham was actually more helpful.
A lot of the sport science jobs tend to go to those who have competed at a professional/elite level - it can be hard to get a foot in the door for others. Of the people I've stayed in touch with on my sport science course - 1 is a photographer, 1 is a school teacher, 1 is a PT and 1 is a car salesman in Stoke.
This blog post is also worth a read pre-university - blackbeltwhite...
The loughborough university sport science entry requirements have always been famously tough. It was 2 As & a B + a lot of sporting experience back in my day. This kind of led to some clashes with the thousands of engineers at loughborough, who seemed to be a bit resentful to us at times. Usually just banter, but the Forest Gump jokes did start to annoy me by the end of my first year!
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