National Collegiate Sports Sales Championship (NCSSC) Results

A group of Ferris State Professional Sales Club members recently participated in the National Collegiate Sports Sales Championship (NCSSC), bringing 160 students from 48 schools. Held at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, the competition provided students a platform to demonstrate their sports sales skills in a highly competitive setting.

The championship adopted a unique seeded bracket role-play format, where students engaged in pitch sessions with recruiters from various sports teams who acted as buyers. The participants presented their products to the buyers, and judges scored their performances based on a pre-distributed scenario and rubric. Akin to the excitement of NCAA March Madness, students advanced until a winner emerged.

The competition's initial seeding came via a virtual preliminary round held last fall, in which Ferris State secured two spots in ticket sales and one in corporate partnerships. The competition also had speed selling and application-based sports marketing trivia contests.

Congratulations

Deandre Brown – Ticket Sales field of Sixty-Four.

Autumn Loeffler – Ticket Sales advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, finishing Twelfth.

Nolan Collins – Corporate Partnerships reached the Final Four, finishing Third.

Deandre Brown – Quantum Quiz field of Sixty-Four, advanced to the Final Four.

Jacob Thorold – Speed Sell contestant.

Shimwe Sentya – Speed Sell contestant- Top 20 individual, Seventh Place Team.

NCSSC's goal is to help students land jobs in sports sales. This event extended into a second day, providing the opportunity to engage in a job fair and interviews to meet with recruiters of sports teams across the NBA, NFL and NHL.