Sports analysts watch and dissect sports for a living! They gather data and statistics on players and strategies and use them to help teams perform better. A combination of statistics and sports, sports analytics is a fun career option for those that want to find the hidden secrets in sports of any kind. In this interdisciplinary program, students develop innovative, analytical skills, and mathematical talent, as well as computer science proficiency. The ultimate goal of the sports analyst is to find innovation through deep knowledge of the sport as well as its business context, through the ability to see patterns that others can’t see! This field is rapidly growing and applicable to any sport.