From Students to Professionals: A Comparative Analysis of Athlete Development Pathways in the United States and the United Kingdom
Written by Jamie Fowler, Joseph Lubin, and Bartosz Osowski
The legal pathways to sport professionalism differ widely in the U.S. and in the U.K. Contrasting the NCAA’s amateurism-based model with England’s academy system, this article considers how each framework reflects different priorities in education, market control, and player welfare.