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Success Stories

Our community is a mix of students, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs, who drive us and inspire us. Here’s them sharing their love.

Journey from Deloitte to ESPN

Joined our Sports Analytics Course in October 2020

Before joining the course, Afzal was working in Deloitte

He appeared for ESPN Hindi sub editor interview

He has impressed his interviewer by showcasing his analytics acumen

Today, Afzal works full time at ESPN and this is his dream company

Sports Content Writing Intern at Times Now

Joined our Sports Commentary course in February 2021

He secured an internship with Times Now for their content creation

His work encompasses writing feature/opinion articles on a regular basis, writing news articles at that hour itself and also filing agency wires from their news feeds. Apart from this he is also entrusted with the responsibility of handling the live Blog of Times Now during high-profile and high-octane matches like IPL or international series where India play

He also runs a Youtube channel called Sportank where he interviews famous sports personalities

Sports Analyst at PlayerzPot

Joined our Sports Analytics course in December 2020

He appeared for PlayerzPot Media interview

He has impressed his interviewers by showing his sports acumen and the case studies he worked on as part of the course

Today, Mitesh works full time at PlayerzPot Media and has also helped other CoLLearners land multiple internships

From working as a security guard to becoming an Umpire

Joined our Cricket Umpiring course in January 2021
Siddharth is a student who used to pay his school fees by part time working as security guard
Immediately after the course, Siddharth started Umpiring in Jodhpur
Today, Siddharth has officiated 30 plus matches and wish to become BCCI umpire
Attempted and passed Cricket South Africa (CSA) Level-1 Umpiring Exam with top scores globally

Driver turned Full Time UMPIRE

Joined our Cricket Umpiring course in December 2020

Before joining the course, Rohit used to work as driver for Uber

He even took all his classes listening to live content with his headphones while driving

Immediately after the course, Rohit started Umpiring in Pune

Today, pre-covid Rohit has officiated 100plus matches and wish to become BCCI umpire

Attempted and passed Cricket South Africa (CSA) Level-1 Umpiring Exam with top scores globally

Has officiated 50 plus matches after the course

Joined Cricket Umpiring Course in March 2021

Working as 2nd Division umpire at CDCA and has officiated 2 days Test matches

Officiated 50+ matches and wish to officiate more matches

Attempted and Passed in Cricket South Africa level 1 in 2021

Has officiated 100 plus matches after the course

Joined our Cricket Umpiring course in November 2020

Manish is from Mohali and he runs his small cricket academy where he trains small kids

Today, Manish has officiated 100 plus matches and wish to officiate more matches and inspire students in his community to take up umpiring as a career

Attempted and passed Cricket South Africa (CSA) Level-1 Umpiring Exam

Technical Consultant at Kadamba Technologies

Joined our Sports Analytics course in July 2020

Kadamba Technologies is one of the leading cricket data companies in India

Sai is using Data Science to augment traditional sports analytics

Course benefits – Gaurav has proven that Sports is an industry where working for a few years can provide the same growth that would take maybe a decade in other industries. Interacting with him first hand was very informative. He gave us a realistic overview of the sports ecosystem in India

Junior Content Writer at SPOLTO

Joined our Sports Journalism course in June 2021

He has joined SPOLTO, a Swedish Sports Company

His responsibilities at SPOLTO includes creating partner profiles, writing sports blogs and articles for the Company

Sports Journalism Trainee at TV 9

Joined our Sports Journalism course in June 2021

She has joined TV 9, Andhra Pradesh’s Leading News Channel

Her responsibilities at TV 9 includes understanding the digital media space and to write sports stories in that domain

Namrata loves writing and she thinks that she has the ability to change the world with her writing. She loves watching sports and also likes to write on sports such as Cricket, Football, Badminton etc. She has completed her graduation in B.A. (Hons.) English from Deshbandhu College, DU and has also completed her post graduation from Indian Institute of Mass Communication(IIMC)

Intern at TV 42, Akash Chopra's Media Company

Joined our Sports Journalism course in June 2021

He has joined TV 42, Akash Chopra’s venture

His responsibilities at TV 42 includes Graphic Designing, working with imminent names like Aakash Chopra, Bradd Hogg, R Ashwin and much more. Works with the phenomenal team of FortyTwo to create interesting graphics and content for the respective clients

Samarth: The course was really very good. The way Snehal Pradhan ma’am has structured it is spectacular. Right from writing ,YouTube to Podcasts it’s all covered, along with some inside tips, useful apps, softwares and much more. If you’re a sports fan looking to convert it into a career option this is the best first step you can take

Has officiated 50 plus matches after the course

Joined our Cricket Umpiring course in March 2021

Navateja is working as an umpire for 2 day league matches conducted by Hyderabad Cricket Council

Today, Navateja has officiated 50 plus matches and wish to become a BCCI umpire

Attempted and passed Cricket South Africa (CSA) Level-1 Umpiring Exam

From Flipkart backend team to Data Visualisation team of Concentrix

Joined our Tableau course in January 2021

Bidhan joined us from Flipkart and was very eager to move to Data Visualisation profiles

He currently works as an Analyst with Concentrix team

Runs his successful Youtube channel in Marathi

Joined our Sports Commentary course in February 2021

He runs a Youtube channel where he interviews famous Marathi personalities

Sports Blogger at EssentiallySports

Joined our Sports Journalism course in June 2021

He joined EssentiallySports as a Golf Writer straight from College

From loosing his job due to an accident to making it as a DM at PepsiCo

Joined our Tableau course in January 2021
He lost his job due to an accident and was bedridden for 2 years. Doing our course, he applied to PepsiCo
He currently works as Deputy Manager, Analytics with PepsiCo

Started working as a theatre artist

Joined our Sports Commentary course in February 2021

From a small Youtube channel, Bhavesh has ventured into full time acting and is currently leaving his mark in Mumbai Drama Communities

He has made videos related to cricket on YouTube. He has been writing on IPL and also collaborated with other sports enthusiasts to write on his website named Statshuman

When it comes to experience in hosting shows, he has hosted/conceptualized a talk show in which he has taken interviews of various artists

From an AVP in Genpact to Sports For All (SFA)

Joined our Sports Analytics course in December 2020 & Sports Journalism course in July 2021
Passionate about Cricket, always wanted to do something in it
With the vision to strengthen sports from the grassroots level, she joined Sports For All (SFA), as a Head of Process & Compliance (Marketing Operations) in April 2022

Senior Editor (Football) at Sportskeeda

Joined our Sports Analytics course in December 2020
Shardul joined Sportskeeda in February 2021
Working for Sportskeeda, he reviews works of famous writers and Journalists in football, he has reviewed 2500 articles and so far
He edits and publishes content for all the major football leagues. He has published 700 Previews and counting

From an Intern to a full-time Employee

Joined our Sports Analytics Course in June 2021
Before joining the course, Aakash was a student of MBA in Sports Management & had done one internship at Padukone-Dravid center for Sports Excellence
After the course, he currently works full-time with Six Cricket, by Padukone-Dravid CSE

Operations Intern at Padukone Sports Management

Joined our Sports Analytics course in January 2022
Before joining our course, Vasanth had done PG in Sports Management
After completing the course, he immediately landed an Internship with Padukone Sports Management, an Initiative by Prakash Padukone, former World No.1 in Badminton