Department of Kinesiology Faculty Listing

Tom Stallings
(B.A., University of Texas at Austin)
Lecturer

Tom Stallings joins the faculty of the Sport Management Program after fifteen seasons in professional sports sales. Tom began his sports sales career with the Houston Astros Baseball Club in 1992.  Tom was responsible for group and season ticket sales as well as providing statistical support to the nightly post game radio show. 

Stallings joined the Houston Aeros Hockey Club in their inaugural season in 1994 on a staff that set International Hockey League records for regular season attendance.  He progressed to sponsor sales while overseeing the intern program, before moving back to the ticket department as Corporate Sales Program Manager in 1997. 

Stallings conceived, planned and implemented largest group nights in Aeros history both in total tickets sold and revenue earned during his tenure in corporate ticket sales before being named Vice President of Ticket Sales in 2003.  Specializing in group sales, the Aeros group ticket sales department saw a 171% increase in four seasons, ranking second in total group sales revenue in the league in the non traditional  Houston hockey market. 

His sales expertise includes cause marketing, value added packaging and sales maximization.  Stallings is married with four children and stays active as a runner and marathon training coach.

In addition to overseeing the Sport Management intern program, Stallings also teaches a Revenue Generation in Sport class and an Event Management class.  Both classes include classroom lectures and practical application of classroom theories in staging Rice University Athletics ticket sales campaigns and special events.

You may email Mr. Stallings at tstallings@rice.edu.

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