Sports Business Internship Opportunities
Internships are one of the best ways to break into the sports business industry, offering hands-on experience across areas like team and league operations, marketing, media, sponsorship, and analytics.
These opportunities give students a firsthand look at how the business side of sports works, while building the skills and connections needed to launch a career in the field. Explore a range of internship opportunities below!
Chicago Union
Journalism & Media Relations Intern
Gain hands-on experience in sports journalism, communications, and media relations while supporting the Chicago Union’s communications efforts. The role offers an opportunity to develop skills in storytelling, media outreach, and content creation within a professional sports organization.
Ticket Sales & Sponsor Relationship Manager Intern
Build experience in sports business through work supporting ticket sales, sponsorships, and relationship management for the Chicago Union. This role is a strong opportunity to develop skills in sales, client engagement, and revenue generation.
OTG Sports Management
Marketing & Social Media Intern
Gain practical experience in sports marketing and digital communications by supporting marketing initiatives and social media efforts at OTG Sports Management. This role offers an opportunity to build skills in content creation, audience engagement, and sports brand development.
USA Hockey
Intern, Coaching and Officiating Educational Content (Remote)
USA Hockey's Hockey Department is looking for a paid semester intern to support the video, audio, and digital content needs of Coaching Education, Officiating Education and Player Development.
The Educational Content Intern would work with department staff to capture, edit, and produce educational media for the Hockey Department. The position would provide dedicated production support while offering hands-on professional experience for an individual pursuing a career in sports media, video production, education or digital content creation.
Atlantic League Professional Baseball
Drake Baseball Marketing Intern (Remote)
The Drake Baseball Marketing Intern is responsible for researching and writing a business plan for the national rollout of Drake Baseball, a proprietary product of the Atlantic League, and then developing and implementing a marketing and sales plan for the product.
Akara Markets
Sports Data Reporter (Part-Time, Remote & Chicago)
Akara Markets is a leading provider of real-time sports data, delivering critical insights to a global audience. We are seeking enthusiastic and detail-oriented individuals to join our team as independent contractors, serving as Data Reporters. This unique opportunity allows passionate sports fans to engage directly with live games, reporting real-time play-by-play and scores using our proprietary mobile tracking application. This is a solo, field-based role focused purely on accurate data capture, not traditional sports writing or news reporting.
Sports Radio America
Sports Journalism Intern (Remote, Part-Time)
Sports Radio America is looking for a motivated and passionate Sports Journalism Intern to join our team. This internship provides an excellent opportunity for students or aspiring journalists to gain hands-on experience in sports media. You will assist with research, writing, and coverage of live sporting events, helping to bring high-quality sports content to our audience.
The Lead Sports Media LLC
Sports Writer (Remote)
If you love sports and writing, The Lead provides a unique platform to engage with other diehard fans and promote your content across a network of 400K+ followers! It has the best publishing platform, a robust brand, excellent training, and a fantastic team with an exploding branch system (see @LakersLead on Twitter, for example).
The Lead is rapidly growing to rival The Athletic, The Ringer, and other “household name” sports media outlets. Many contributors at these outlets have started with The Lead. Others have used their experience with The Lead to give themselves additional professional opportunities in journalism, marketing, social media, sports information, and more. If you're looking to start a media-focused career or are just a passionate sports fan looking to advance the conversation, there isn't a better place to start than with The Lead.