PSEA

 
April 19th - Financial Literacy Training, DOES Registration and Mandatory Summer Program Orientation.
 
 

 
 

Mission Statement - Our mission is to prepare, motivate and groom high school youth for professional careers in sports and entertainment management.

What We Do - We nurture and encourage participants as they develop business, leadership and life skills that produce well-rounded citizens.   PSEA’s multifaceted approach includes a unique combination of lectures led by industry professionals, extensive field exploration, hands-on projects and internships which serve as the foundation for training today’s youth and producing tomorrow’s sports and entertainment executives. 

Vision Statement - Progressive Sports and Entertainment Alliance, Inc. will serve as the national model for developing high school students into industry-leading sports and entertainment management professionals.

History

  • April 8, 2005 – With the underwriting support of the D.C. Department of Employment Services, Li Thompson and Darrin Cook co-found Progressive Sports Alliance, Inc.

  • June 27, 2005 – PSEA opens its doors for the original 32 participants at Friendship Edison Collegiate Academy.

  • September 14, 2005 – Progressive Sports and Entertainment Alliance, Inc. is founded by Li Thompson.

  • June 2, 2006 – PSEA partners with Public Access Corporation – DCTV to create television production component of program.

  • June 14, 2006 – PSEA partners with the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation and D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission to create the athletic field maintenance component of program.

  • August 27, 2006 – D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation commissions PSEA to produce the D.C. Athletic Facilities Inventory.

  • April 4, 2007 – D.C. Public Schools and PSEA create a partnership with a Memorandum of Understanding.

  •  May 4, 2007 – PSEA is appropriated $100,000 from the D.C. Committee on Economic Development, Councilmember Kwame Brown, Chairman.

  • May 8, 2007 – D.C. Public Schools and PSEA create Sports Management I and Sports Management II courses for class credit, using the PSEA model.