Start-Up Spotlight: PremierSports

As a young athlete, private sports lessons can be vital in helping you establish a baseline for technical and tactical skills. You may have taken private sports lessons with coaches in your area that you heard about via word-of-mouth or were recommended to you by a teammate. However, not all athletes have the opportunity to meet qualified coaches.

Based on their previous athletic experiences, Cornell student Alfonse Muglia and graduate of The College of New Jersey Mathew Barrett have teamed together to develop PremierSports, a booking platform that connects private coaches with passionate athletes.

Over 100 coaches signed onto the platform in its first month open, mostly high school coaches and college coaches in the New York metropolitan area.

“PremierSports believes that an athlete’s likelihood to reach their goals should not be based on their economic upbringing,” Muglia said.

The company aims to create an online forum that acts as an intermediary, allowing athletes across the nation to search coaches.

Instead of hearing about a great coach through a friend-of-a-friend you can simply search the coaches in your area, set a traveling distance, a price range, and compare their qualifications.

Muglia, previous vice president of the magazine, states that ILRSBS has positively impacted his growth as an entrepreneur, teaching him how to “apply leadership skills within the sports industry,” and giving him a “network of friends to share ideas with.”

Although Cornell’s campus is not dominated by dedicated, cheering sport’s fans similar to other State Schools, Muglia, accompanied by other students on campus, have turned their abstract ideas into concrete improvements for the sports community at large.

This can be seen not only through PremierSports, but other organizations as well such as Big Red Sports Network, Batting Leadoff, and Rivalry Wear.

Muglia and Barrett have established an exciting, extremely useful business model that will surely make a difference in the world of young elite athletes.