Paige Bueckers, n ° 5 of the Uconn Huskies, pulls the ball in the second half in the last semi-final match of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament against Iowa Hawkeyes in Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 5, 2024.
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The star of the University of Connecticut, Paige Bueckers, at dawn to become a choice of WNBA n ° 1, takes its talents in the field of financial literacy.
The Guard Star Huskies has teamed Intuity Offer free educational financial literacy programs to athletes and students from the country’s universities.
“I know how important financial literacy is and learning to manage your income, taxes and intelligent financial decisions, so for me to be able to share this opportunity with others, I think it was very important,” Bueckers told CNBC.
As part of the new Intuit campaign, the financial technology platform will offer a series of Financial education programs In order to help students sail in their financial future. The company says that it will offer a zero tax authority workshop to help athletes understand the tax implications for the sources of name, image and resemblance income.
Bueckers, 23, is part of one of the first classes of student-athletes to be fully drawn from new politicians allowing zero offers. From 2021, the NCAA softened its rules and began to allow students to take advantage of their name, image and resemblance. He has considerably changed the model for college students.
She said that she had learned most of her financial literacy through a financial advisor.
“I was very blessed, very lucky to have this opportunity with Nile to be able to capitalize from this, start building wealth, start making money at university as a athlete student. But certainly, I think that at the beginning, when Nile came into play, I did not really know the finances,” she said.
To date, Bueckers has signed more than 25 agreements with companies such as GatradeChegg, Bose, Verizon, Madison Reed And Stockx.
In December, she entered the story by becoming the first zero athlete to launch a shoe with Nike.
Bueckers said Nile was not only beneficial for her personally, but it was also useful for female sports as a whole.
“It has done great things in the female game,” she said, “in terms of visibility to see people in advertisements, advertisements and everywhere on social networks”.