It is not uncommon for people with enviable business or life experience to defend their Bachelor or Master thesis in Aspira Hall and today we have witnessed such an example. Our dear Deni Borozan defended her dissertation “Controlling as a contemporary management concept of non-profit sports organizations – example of the Marjan Gymnastics Club”. As she stated, studying at Aspira supplemented her knowledge in the best possible way as she learned to recognize and call things using the right terminology.
Deni’s daughter is responsible for the beginning of her sports story. Accompanying her to her gymnastics practice she realized the lack of quality gymnastics clubs and decided to establish the Marjan Gymnastics Club in 1998, together with several enthusiasts led by coach Magda Milošević Ilić.
Today, we can say that the club is very successful. In 4 cycles it has given Olympic contestants and no club has been able to do something like that so far. It has 200 members and more than 300 medals, and the club’s human resource team is of a great value continuously encouraging their colleagues to be better.
After many years in sports, Deni realized that her knowledge and approach should be given a new dimension and decided to enroll in Sports Management studies at Aspira College. As she says, all 5 years on management Aspira have been a pure pleasure and a real eye-opener. She believes that anyone who wants to become a sports manager should enrol Aspira because it is the right path to the success in the sports industry.
Today, Deni also works as a teaching assistant on the course of Sports Management and transfers valuable practical knowledge to the first-year students, awakening the necessary enthusiasm every day. She encourages them to be responsible, honourable, and honest, and to fight for sports always as well as to be its ambassadors.
Completing her studies is not the end of learning process because we have the opportunity to gain new insights every day, and in education, only the sky is the limit – she says.
We are extremely pleased that Deni continues to be a part of Aspira’s story and that new generations of sports managers will be enriched with their knowledge and exceptional pedagogical approach.