Be Among Champions

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Now let’s meet Khaleel who is at the FIU stadium. Khaleel graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s in recreation and sports management, and is now working on his law degree to become an in-house counsel for a sports team. He’s had great training as a Panther. FIU is a division one school with 17 teams in conference USA. In addition to an on-campus stadium, the Panthers play at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center on the main campus, and train in one of the premier aquatic facilities within the State of Florida and the east coast of the United States at Biscayne Bay campus. The swimming and diving team there is the real deal, seven time conference USA champs. Khaleel take it away.

Thank you, Alex. I’m currently going into my second year here at FIU college of law. Both of my parents were born in Jamaica and came over here to make a better life for me. As the international university, FIU is holding people from all over the world. Growing up, I loved to play baseball and basketball, and that ultimately led me to choose recreation and sports management as my undergraduate major. As a division one university, FIU has many opportunities both on and off campus. In Miami, we have the Heat, the Dolphins, the Marlins, the Florida Panthers, and Inter Miami. You can literally wrap up classes at five and then head downtown to a heat game shortly after. As a Panther, you can either be a student athlete or a spectator, with multiple club and intermural sports, such as basketball, flag football, soccer, and rugby. There was no better feeling than ending my day with an intermural game in our recreational center. Both friends and even family would come out. And as honestly one of the things I’ll miss the most about my undergraduate experience, whether you wanna catch a basketball game, or you wanna watch FIU beat the U again, FIU will provide. In addition to sports, I was a part of the Dean Student Advisory Council, where we made recommendations to the dean, on how to make FIU an even better university. This experience really showed me that FIU really cares about what the students think. I chose recreation and sports management as my major, cause I wanna be in-house counsel for professional sports organization. It’s funny because the way I came about this was through my Title Nine major required class. Not only did I get an internship with the Orange Bowl because of the connections I made, but I also learned about the FIU law, pre law path program, after showing interest in law school and sport and entertainment law. I wanna take my love of sports and incorporate that with my love of the law. This free program ultimately gave me a glimpse of what to expect in law school and that it was the right decision for me. I’m currently the vice president of sport and entertainment of the Sport Entertainment Fashion Art Law Society here at FIU. We just held our first ever national sports symposium with speakers from all across the country. We covered topics such as name image and likeness and the future of sports betting here in Florida. I look forward to my upcoming years here at FIU, and I know the experience gain will definitely pay off. Well Alex I spoken enough, so it’s back to you and paws up.

Paws up Khaleel, it’s great to see how focused you are on your goals. There’s no stopping you it’s true Panthers are really bringing it on the field and in the classroom cheers.