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My First Job In Sports S01E04 - Nick Holmes My First Job In Sports
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Sales are a great point of entry for new graduates looking to get into the sports business. In this episode, we spoke to Nick Holmes. Nick was a collegiate runner who helped pay his way through school working at running stores. He now heads up run specialty sales at Under Armour.
Guest Bio:
Nick Holmes grew up in Bartonville, IL, and started his journey in the sports world in Cross Country and Track in high school. At that same time, he worked at the local running store(Running Central) and fell in love with Run Specialty and knew “I wanted to stay in the industry somehow.”
He continued his education and athletic career at the University of Iowa graduating in 2013 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Human Relations. While attending and competing for the University, he worked at their local running shop, Running Wild until 2015. From there he moved to Naperville, IL to join Naperville Running Company, regarded as one of the best-run specialty stores in the country.
He worked my way up to become a manager and was there for 3 years and also competed at the Olympic Trials in the marathon in 2016. In 2018 he joined In-Gear an independent sales rep firm and handled Under Armour, CEP, Clif Bar, Camelbak, Thule, and others managing four different states.
At the end of that year, the position of Sales Manager for Run Specialty opened up at Under Armour and Nick joined the team at UA. He has been there since January of 2019 with the official title of Manager, Run Specialty Sales. Along the way, he married Stephanie Holmes, who also works in the run space at Hoka and had an awesome background in Cross Country/Track and Field.
They lived in Baltimore for 2 years and are currently in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin with our two pups Hank and Hershey.
My First Job in Sports is Presented by SBRnet.
Sales are a great point of entry for new graduates looking to get into the sports business. In this episode, we spoke to Nick Holmes. Nick was a collegiate runner who helped pay his way through school working at running stores. He now heads up run specialty sales at Under Armour.
Guest Bio:
Nick Holmes grew up in Bartonville, IL, and started his journey in the sports world in Cross Country and Track in high school. At that same time, he worked at the local running store(Running Central) and fell in love with Run Specialty and knew “I wanted to stay in the industry somehow.”
He continued his education and athletic career at the University of Iowa graduating in 2013 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Human Relations. While attending and competing for the University, he worked at their local running shop, Running Wild until 2015. From there he moved to Naperville, IL to join Naperville Running Company, regarded as one of the best-run specialty stores in the country.
He worked my way up to become a manager and was there for 3 years and also competed at the Olympic Trials in the marathon in 2016. In 2018 he joined In-Gear an independent sales rep firm and handled Under Armour, CEP, Clif Bar, Camelbak, Thule, and others managing four different states.
At the end of that year, the position of Sales Manager for Run Specialty opened up at Under Armour and Nick joined the team at UA. He has been there since January of 2019 with the official title of Manager, Run Specialty Sales. Along the way, he married Stephanie Holmes, who also works in the run space at Hoka and had an awesome background in Cross Country/Track and Field.
They lived in Baltimore for 2 years and are currently in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin with our two pups Hank and Hershey.
My First Job in Sports is Presented by SBRnet.
25 min