SAinSports 2018 Q1 Highlights + News

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Hello <<First Name>>,
We've been busy growing the network and promoting sports within our community. Part of our efforts for this year are to build relationships with other sports organizations. We are pleased to have partnered with the first annual New York Open, a premier tennis event, this past February, offering discounted tickets to our members. We connected with South Asian Youth Action in Queens, NY and are facilitating ways for youth to play and eventually work in sports. We are also happy to start a relationship with Columbia University's Sports Management program, planting seeds for South Asian sports research.

Do you know an organization we should connect with? Let us know!

Inspire South Asian Youth

Volunteer an hour of your time to inspire youth to pursue a career in sports at South Asian Youth Action's career fair on May 19th. Please email nuberoi@sainsports.com if you would like to participate.

Q1 Highlights

South Asians in working in sports came out strong off the starting blocks of 2018. Check out what your fellow sports professionals have been up to across the industry this quarter.

January 2018
Indian American real estate executive Punit Shah is now a minority owner of the Miami Marlins baseball organization!

March 2018
Kavitha A. Davidson (Sports Writer, espnW and ESPN Magazine) was part of an amazing panel at #SXSW2018 to discuss why the labor producing much of the revenue generated by college sports be paid.

February 2018
Three South Asian countries participated in the Winter Olympics (Afghanistan, for the first time). Congrats to Afghanistan's skiers Sajjad Husaini and Alishah Farhang, India's Jagdish Singh (cross country skiing) and Shiva Keshavan (luge), Pakistan's Muhammad Karim (alpine skiing) and Syed Human (cross country skiing)!

March 2018
India's Shubhankar Sharma gets a special invitation to play at The Masters Golf event next month. He will be the fourth Indian to play the Masters, and the second to receive a special invitation.

February 2018
The New York Giants announced on February 15th that it has retained Pratik Patel, Director of Performance Nutrition. Well done Pratik!

March 2018
Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri has had an impressive showing in two consecutive ATP Masters 1000 singles events by qualifying and reaching the third (and second) round of the main draws of both Indian Wells and Miami. Way to go Yuki!

Know another South Asian working in sports? Tell them to join SAinSports here!

What's Next?

SAinSports is planning a few events for 2018. Stay tuned for more info!

Will You Join Us?

SAinSports is working hard to build a network of South Asians working in sports. We would love to have some of our members get more involved. Email us if you're interested in helping SAinSports achieve more in 2018.