Team USA builds financial skills in a Visa Practical Money Skills for Athletes training session with Daniel Schutte, an IT Project Manager at Visa.
Knowing that Olympic athletes face unique financial challenges, Visa developed the Practical Money Skills for Athletes program in partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help current athletes, and those nearing sports retirement, access resources to help manage their financial lives both during and after their athletic careers.
The program, which is a great platform for Visa Volunteer efforts worldwide, was announced at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August with program ambassador Angela Ruggiero, a four-time U.S. Ice Hockey Olympic medalist and chair of the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission. Ruggiero joined Visa to showcase the new global financial education initiative with athletes in the Olympic Village.
Team USA builds financial skills in a Visa Practical Money Skills for Athletes training session with Daniel Schutte, an IT Project Manager at Visa.
Team USA athletes work on their financial skills at Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
A Team USA athlete takes notes during Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program training session at U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program helps Team USA work on their financial futures at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program teams up with Athlete Career Coach Terris Tiller to help Team USA build their financial futures at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Team USA tests their financial fitness with Visa’s Daniel Schutte at the Practical Money Skills for Athletes training session.
Team USA always goes for gold, especially when it comes to their financial futures. Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program helps them set goals and build better financial futures at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program helps Team USA athletes develop strong financial skills at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
The U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs welcomes Team USA and Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program to help athletes build strong financial futures.
Terris Tiller, Athlete Career Coach at the USOC, coaches Team USA on their financial skills through Visa’s Practical Money Skills for Athletes program at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Following the Games, Visa’s Head of U.S. Financial Education, Hugh Norton, led a training session with Ruggiero to provide athletes with the tools, resources and support they need to reach their highest potential in sport and in life. Conducted at September’s 2016 Olympic & Paralympic ACE Summit in Crystal City, VA, the training was designed to help athletes understand transition resources and open dialogue around retirement and life beyond sport.
In 2017, Visa coached Team USA athletes with its Practical Money Skills for Athletes program and the USOC Athlete Career & Education (ACE) program on June 21 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs to build their personal finance skills. This training session was led by Visa’s Daniel Schutte, an IT Project Manager, as part of a Visa Volunteers effort to train US athletes.
The Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center is home to sport facilities and support services for the following summer Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American sports: boxing, cycling (Olympic and Paralympic), figure skating, gymnastics, Paralympic judo, pentathlon shooting (Olympic and Paralympic), Paralympic Swimming, wrestling.
