A wide receiver out of Hofstra who played 11 seasons for the New York Jets, Chrebet is a cult icon for many New Yorkers of a certain age. After notching 580 receptions and 41 touchdowns in his NFL career, Chrebet now works at Stifel. He's part of a six-person wealth management team with $2 billion in assets.

Spanarkel obtained a Series 7 license, qualifying him to work as a financial advisor, during his second year as a pro with the Dallas Mavericks in 1981. Now a CFP, he’s the lead partner in a Merrill Lynch financial advisor team that includes two other advisors and two registered senior client associates.

A rough and tumble player, Bellows spent 17 years in the NHL from 1982 to 1999. He played in 1,118 games, scored 1,022 points and spent 718 minutes in the penalty box. He hopefully employs a lighter touch nowadays with clients and coworkers at Piper Jaffray.

Daluiso, who now works at Morgan Stanley, spent 11 seasons in the NFL as a kicker for the Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Oakland Raiders. He played in two Super Bowls: XXVI for the Bills and XXXV for the Giants.

Finley was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in 1987 and turned an initial $600/month salary into a 19-year career in MLB. After retirement, he realized just how little he'd thought about finances as a player and how underprepared that left him for a long life after baseball. So, he became a financial advisor, and joined Morgan Stanley’s Global Sports & Entertainment as a sports and entertainment associate to help teach today’s players best practices for making their money last.

The legendary UCLA quarterback didn’t find much success in the NFL after being picked by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the draft. He lasted four seasons with the Bears, Dolphins and 49ers before starting his second career as an advisor. He’s currently a senior managing director for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. and has worked at Beverly Hills-based LourdMurray Capital Management, as well as JPMorgan Securities and UBS.

Servicing high-net-worth clients is increasingly a team sport and a variety of professionals have important roles to play. Few appreciate the value of good team players more than Chris Dudley, who spent 16 years as one in the NBA before launching a second career as a financial advisor. He’s currently a senior wealth advisor and director of sports and entertainment in the Beverly Hills office of Boston Private Wealth, a firm with $7.1 billion in assets under management that specializes in working with professional athletes, entertainers and HNW clients.

Kerney was a Pro Bowl defensive end who spent 11 seasons with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the Seattle Seahawks. After he retired, Kerney earned an MBA from Columbia University and began to give financial advice to other NFL players. He is now the director of business development at NFC Investments and a principal at Kerney Insurance.

The first American woman to win medals in both the summer and winter games (and one of only five overall), Williams was inspired to become a certified financial planner after she hired a financial adviser at age 20, thinking he would help her manage all her financial affairs, but was disappointed to find he was only interested in providing investment advice. She opened Dallas-based Worth Winning in April 2016 to serve millennials and athletes—both fellow Olympic competitors and professionals.

A former Pro Bowl quarterback for the Rams and the Saints in the 1990s who amassed 34,837 passing yards and 203 touchdowns in his career, Jim Everett is perhaps best known for his poor decision to attempt to assault reporter Jim Rome on national television when the latter refuse to stop calling him “Chris Everett.” He made a somewhat better decision just months after retiring, deciding to pursue an MBA at Pepperdine University. In 2000, he started his own asset management company, which he ran for 14 years.

A hockey Hall of Famer and a key member of the Islanders’ dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups in the 80s, Gillies played 958 NHL games, scored 697 points and spent 1,023 minutes in the penalty box. He’s now a senior vice president at Hilton Capital.

A former defensive back briefly for the Seattle Seahawks, Willie Thomas admits to facing financial trouble early on in his football career after buying a house for his mom that stretched his funds to the breaking point. Taking that lesson to heart, Thomas, a finance major, entered the world of business almost immediately after he left the gridiron. He currently serves as director of Merrill Lynch's San Francisco office, where he leads more than 190 financial advisors.