1. Oliver Smith 13CAR
My ambition is to follow a university course which combines my two favourite subjects,
Sport and Business. This allows me to achieve my career goal of working in marketing and
advertising within sports, including events management.
Throughout my life I have been a keen sportsman, playing football, basketball, golf and
volleyball. My passion for football began when I joined my local team at 6 years old and
continues as I still play for them, demonstrating my dedication and loyalty. During this time I
have had the honour of representing North West Leicestershire, playing at Pride Park and
Meadow Lane and playing in the F.A Youth Cup for Long Eaton United. This rewarding
experience provided an insight into the business side of professional sport.
I was selected to represent the Leicestershire and Rutland County F.A. as a young leader at
the National Youth Leadership Camp at Warwick University. Throughout the camp we
completed different workshops ranging from media training to refereeing. During this time I
feel I improved my team working and communication skills. Furthermore, I grew in
confidence and self belief as I found that I had good ideas that many people agreed with. As
a consequence I have taken many opportunities to participate in events such as disability
and girls’ football, where I help to organise the event and referee many of the matches.
As I have always wanted to coach and manage younger age groups to pass on my football
knowledge and experience, I completed both my F.A level 1 Coaching Badge and my Level 1
Youth Award Badge. I started coaching with Kegworth Imps U12’s, this was thoroughly
worthwhile as I could use my own knowledge from my coaching courses and then apply it to
real situations and training sessions. I am now the coach of Kegworth Imps under 7’s which
has been a great experience for me as I have had to adapt to a new situation of
communicating instructions and getting ideas across to seven year olds. This requires a
great amount of patience, something I pride myself on having. I also feel my relationship
with the team members makes me approachable, whilst maintaining a position of authority.
My keen interest in business and how businesses work soared as I began to study Business
at GCSE level, where I developed an enthusiasm of every aspect of the business world. In
particular I am eager to learn more about aspects of communication, finance and marketing.
I am inspired by my father who owns a medium sized business with over 40 employees, I
take a great interest in the jobs and information he has to do and process, in turn allowing
me to gain an understanding on how businesses are run day to day and what is required for
a business to be successful.
During my time at Burleigh Community College, a nationally recognised sports college, I
have competed in basketball, reaching the Final Fours in England. I received the players’
player award for football and I was nominated for the Sports Personality of the year Award.
I am delighted to have been nominated as it demonstrates I have the correct attitude
towards an area I am very passionate about.

2. Oliver Smith 13CAR
For my work experience I worked at a secondary school in the P.E. department. My
responsibilities included equipment checks, publicity and as a general teaching assistant. I
demonstrated to members of faculty that I could be relied on to perform tasks to the best of
my ability whilst proving to have good time keeping skills.
Within my community I volunteered at events such as sports days and coaching sessions for
primary and secondary school pupils during my Level 2 Community Sports Leader Award. I
am also a Sporting Mentor to students within my community who are taking their CSLA
course; I hope to share my ideas and to find out others ideas to broaden my knowledge on
leadership. Therefore with my passion for sport and business combined with desired
qualities in this career area, I believe that I am the ideal candidate for this course.