High school class engages students in academics, career skills through sports marketing

Students in Sue Suttich’s sports marketing class don’t just sit in circles and discuss their favorite athletes or highlights from the last Trail Blazers game.

But if those interests are what lure them in, Suttich is OK with that. Eventually, she knows they will switch from sports talk to discussing strategies for getting advertising, designing merchandise and drawing fans to games.

The business teacher’s advanced course has become so popular among Tigard High School’s 2,000 students that more than 80 kids applied for 32 slots this year. Students not only research sports organizations’ operations and meet with local professionals, but they also apply what they’ve learned toward promoting what they tout as the school’s largest basketball event of the year.

By Melissa Navas, The Oregonian

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