– Slam Dunk. This weekend, the best female basketball players in the world will match in Indianapolis for VNBA All-Star Game. For the stars of the league, the weekend and hyper around it represents a sign of how much sport came and how much is an opportunity for top players today.
But 85% of the league player is not selected as all the stars – and in spite of the growing Sponsorship opportunities In women’s sports, many players still need to understand what comes after their professional career. Rasheeda Clark is a former VNBA player who found excellence from the Court, at a very different field: franchise fast food.
Clark was playing basketball D1 in Pepperdine, played for American basketball and was made in the third round of VNB in 2001. years (expected to have been injured by its older year). Between 2001. and 2003. she played for three VNBA teams – Portland Fire, Sting Charlotte and Connecticut Sun. Her playing time coincided with a change of happiness Vnba As teams began to bend after the financial restructuring of ownership in the team. Of these three teams, only Connecticut Sun is still around – Although the new Franchise of Portland VNBA will start playing 2026. Years with the same name in the honors of the first city.
Clarke’s injuries – and VNBA salaries with a low player, about $ 37,000, says that eventually made her leave sports. She began looking somewhere else for the pleasure she got from the basketball team and the possibility of leadership. As a sportsman, she felt that sometimes in an unfavorable position in the business world; While her colleagues were interrupted and explored business fairs, she was training and traveled because of games. She entered retail operations and then chosen for Pepsico’s A well-known management training programWhat helped her get a more formal experience – her business version of “training camp”.
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Today, President Flynn Wendy, Vendi’s segment of the largest franchise operator in the United States, oversee more than 300 wendy locations, almost 10,000 employees – and $ 724 million a year sale. She is one of the seven presidents in the FLINN group, which also runs franchise operations for Applebee’s, Arbi’s, Panera, Panera, Pizza Hut, Planet Fitness and Taco Bell.
Post-retirement, today’s athletes are looking for a number of paths, from Podcasting and Sports commentinvest and start, coaching and Ownership of the team. Players are eager for more former athletes to work in the league. For Clark, that was not feeling like an option then. “It was almost like I had to clean my system,” she remembers remembering. “I would continue to try to be in a team or go,” I may give it another shot. “It wasn’t an option for me. But these are a very sustainable avenue for current players.”
It calls on corporations to recognize unique unique skill sets – helping those who want to enter new industries to jump as well. The athletes have a “hard-hard way of thinking,” she says. At the same time, they know that “no one beats the individual effort of a team in the team,” she says. “You always cooperate, learning the roles of other players on the field to be successful.”
Emma Hinchliffe
Emma.Hinchliffe@fortune.com
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