If you were trying desperately to reach Skyler Scoggan this week, you were out of luck.

The 2009 Park City High School graduate is currently a sports management student at Lynn University, a private school in Boca Raton, Fla., and for the past week Scoggan has been under the tutelage of some of Major League Baseball’s bigwigs.

Scoggan’s sports management class of roughly 20 students has been encapsulated in baseball’s annual Winter Meetings, where representatives from all 30 major league teams gather to discuss terms with free agents and potential trades with other ball clubs.

The point of partaking in the intense week of meetings, insider rumors and hundreds of millions of dollars being exchanged is so that students can learn the behind-the-curtains business aspect behind one of the world’s most profitable professional sports.

“This experience is great in every way,” said Scoggan from a meeting room at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Fla.

Scoggan’s professor, Ted Curtis, has been involved in sports management at Lynn for quite some time. The one-of-a-kind experience for students began five years ago at the request of a small group of students.

Five students approached Curtis and asked him if the class could attend the Winter Meetings that were also being held in Orlando that year.

Curtis looked into it, and eventually the class was able to attend an annual job fair put on by the minor league baseball system.

“After that, we got credentialed and it just took off from there,” Curtis said.

Students in the program experience three days worth of different avenues of sports management and journalism. They’ve convened with baseball beat writers, members of MLB Network Radio and have been involved with professional agents and team general managers behind the scenes of it all.

“Instead of bringing guest speakers to my class, I bring my class to 200 people,” Curtis said.

In the last week, Scoggan and his fellow classmates have met with Jeff Idelson, the president of Baseball Hall of Fame, Jay Miller, the senior vice president of the Texas Rangers and have been working with members of MLB Network Radio.

“I always knew I wanted to do something with sports,” Scoggan said. “After coming here, I realized that the dream is not so far away. You can see it. You can see where you can get. They make this all happen.”

While Curtis is more than well-versed in sports management, he knew that if his students were to go on to become major players in the field after college, he needed to bring them to where it all happens.

“I can teach theory, but until they see what this business is all about, no student can appreciate what it is like in this industry,” Curtis said. “I wanted them to see just how broad this business is.”

Curtis’ class has made a habit of traveling around the country and attending and learning at some of America’s biggest sports events.

The Super Bowl, the NCAA Men’s Final Four, both the Winter and Summer X Games and BCS bowl games.

“This program was the vast majority of the reason why I came here,” Scoggan said. “I always wanted to go here.”

Lynn’s sports management class has traveled to the site of the Winter Meetings; whether it was Las Vegas, Nev., Nashville, Tenn., or Indianapolis, Ind., for four years the class to observe the behind-the-scenes assembling of major league baseball rosters.

Graduates from Lynn’s program currently work for dozens of teams and leagues in professional sports.

Scoggan is no stranger to sports himself, having played three years of football and two years of track at PCHS.

He said that the versatility of the program is what attracted him to Lynn originally, and that it doesn’t matter what type of sport you’re interested in becoming affiliated with after college.

The students have been studying baseball operations and finance and contracts as a whole, and Scoggan singled out the hospitality of those MLB executives as something that came as a pleasant surprise.

“I can ask anyone for help,” Scoggan said. “It’s fun. We get ahold of rumors before they get to the press. It’s all about the experience and the exposure. It’s beyond surreal. I know there are millions of people that would love to be in my shoes right now.”