ICE's 16-20

Athletic Groundskeeper Internship
This is an internship at The University of Michigan where I would be responsible for maintaining all of the athletic fields. That includes playing fields, practice fields, and facilities for the University of Michigan Baseball,Softball and Track and Field programs. It is a job focusing more on treatment of the fields; aeration, fertalizing, moving, edging, sod repair/replacement, and painting/chalking lines on the fields. It has good pay for an internship as well; full-time job with $9-12 an hour.

Assistant Manager of Athletic Fields
The University of Conneticut is looking for someone to fill this full-time position. This job's responsibilities include: assisting in ideas for design of new facilities; inspection and maintenance of irrigation systems; aeration, fertilizer application and chemicals; preparation of facilities prior to practices and games; necessary maintenance of all equipment; maintaining the indoor athletic facilities as required; assistance at athletic events; as well as other duties assigned by the Manager of Athletic Fields.

Equipment Manager
Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire has a job open for an equipment manager. This is a full-time job and is responsible for the complete operation of the athletic equipment, the coordination of the laundry, and for the coordination of the lining of the athletic fields with help from the college grounds department staff. Other responsibilities are purchasing equipment, distribution of the equipment, inventory and maintenance of the equipment, and reconditioning(fixing/maintaining) athletic equipment.

Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach
This is a full-time position at Townson University in Maryland. Responsibilities include: assist with training to maximize performance and limit injury potential for all sports; technical instruction of Olympic and free weight lifts; develop proper speed and plyometric skills; directing sport/position specific conditioning programs; application of comprehensive testing protocol; working with the Sports Medicine staff regarding injured student athletes; participating in the recruitment of prospects for assigned sports; and assisting with budget preparation, compliance to weight room regulations, scheduling and maintenance of the training facility, as well as other administrative tasks.

Basketball coach for camp Starlight
Camp Starlight is looking for an experienced and well qualified individual to head up the basketball program of the camp this summer from June 18th- August 14th. This job includes: instructing athletes of different age, interest and skill level; develop activity plans; manage a staff of six male and female college-aged students; coach inter-camp tournaments and games; and star-camps(2-day instructional basketball camp).

Turner Field Visit

This past Thursday our class visited Turner Field in Atlanta. The tour consisted of: The Coca-Cola Sky Field, Braves Hall of Fame Museum, Braves Dugout, Braves locker room, Scouts Alley, the broadcasting booth, Luxury suite, press box, the plaza and the Museum store. On top of touring all of those areas of the facility our tour guide also told us a lot of information concerning the field and facility. There are TV's everywhere in the facility so that you never miss the action. The field also has a special Hybrid Bermuda grass that doesn't die in the winter like normal Bermuda grass does. I found that really fascinating. Our tour guide also told us that the field's draining system pumps water off their field at an incredibly high rate that will pretty much allow the Braves to be able to play through any rain, except of course if it is a torrential down-pour. I loved the tour overall and I learned a lot of things about Turner Field that I did not know before.

Graduate Assistantship Explorations 6-10

Graduate Assistant Coach: Strength and Conditioning
Frostburg State University is looking for a strength and conditioning coach for all of their athletic teams. You must have a bachelor's degree and a 3.0 GPA to apply. You will coordinate and create workout plans and schedules for individual teams/players.

Illni Scholars Program
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, must have a bachelor's degree and a 3.0 GPA. There are assistantships available for Sport Information, Development and Event Management.

Compliance Officer of Athletics
At the New York Institute of Technology, you must have a bachelor's degree (Master's is preferred), and 3-5 years experience in an intercollegiate athletic environment. Also have computer skills and interpersonal and communication skills.

Assistant coach for Women's Soccer
At New Mexico State University, you need a bachelor's degree and experience with collegiate,high school or club soccer coaching. Good communicator and able to work with student-athletes from diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Facilities and Events Coordinator
At Cal State East Bay, requires a bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience directing the work of technical, professional and/or administrative staff and managing events. You are a game day administrator and provide technical leadership and direction for game/event management and operations.

Human Resource Management

Ben and I were looking for a play-by-play announcer for the Rome Braves Minor League Professional Baseball Club. The Job Description was as follows: To provide commentary and detailed overview of the games and to document the statistics into a statistics book for records.
We had a list of criteria the applicant had to meet, and things we would want to see in a potential employee: Education Degree (Bachelor's minimum in Communication or related field), playing experience (preferred, but not required), knowledge of game , communication skills, computer skills (for recording the statistics), commentary/announcing experience (list of references and experiences), social skills, Hours (what they are looking to work), Salary demands, and they must have some knowledge of the Rome Braves (for added insight into commentating and announcing).

Georgia Tech/ Georgia Dome Visit(s)

We recently went and visited the Georgia Tech Recreation Center. It was a very nice and huge facility that was very well kept and organized. It had a main floor with the lobby and main weight room with all the equipment you could ever need: Eliptical, treadmill, free weights, and more. They also had a number of indoor pools. Jonathan Hart was our tour guide and he told us all the construction that went into the Campus Recreation Center and all the problems they have had with it in the past. It was the home site for the Aquatics in the 1996 Olympics, but since then it has been expanded quite a bit. They added an entirely separate floor above the main floor of the facility with basketball courts and an indoor running track above those. There are also classrooms and workout rooms on the upper floor as well. I loved the facility and it is exactly the type of facility that I would love to own or operate in the future.

After that, we went to the Georgia Dome and took a tour of that facility. We went up to the press box/media room on the upper-most floor of the stadium, and eventually made it into the locker room of the Falcons =). We got a tour of the suites available for Falcon's games and also the area where the press and media get to sit and watch the game (which is on the 50 yard line). The last thing we did, after going into the Falcon's locker room and seeing their coach's offices and such, we actually got to walk out of the tunnel the Falcon's run out of and onto the field. It was an amazing experience for me and I really enjoyed the entire tour. The facility is one of the most amazing places I've ever visited.

Guest Speaker: Bob Pearson

Bob Pearson visited our class on October 28th and shared some of his great experiences with us and gave us a lot of tips to help us now and in the future. He is at Berry now and he is the head of the Department Chair of Kinesiology. At Berry he helped in training people that wanted to coach at the High School level, and he also taught and had 60+ students to advise. He passes us a handout with a lot of great quotes and sayings to go by in life. Here are a few of my favorite: "Your character is what you do when no one is looking" Winston Churchill, "No task is too small not to do well", and "The time is right to do what is right: M.L. King Jr. He also stressed how important it is to enjoy your job and anything else that you do in your life. I personally really enjoyed Mr. Pearson's visit and all the information that he gave us. It will all be very helpful in me pursuing my goals and even coaching.

ICE's 11-15

Softball Director at Camp Starlight Summer '11
Camp Starlight is an 8 week sleepaway camp located in Northeast Pennsylvania (about 2½ hours from New York City). Currently,we are looking to hire an experienced, enthusiastic and qualified individual to be the head of our very popular and active softball program. We offer a great salary with room and board included. Coaching all sorts of athletes, coaching tournaments and games, manage all other softball instructors, and work in other camps. 

Assistant Softball Coach at Mississippi State University
Assist the Head Softball coach with recruiting, scheduling of practices and games, conditioning, and help with all other things asked from the head coach. 

Intramural & Facility Coordinator
Oversee and administer all intramural sports program. Set up recreational activities for Brown University students. Provide direction, supervision and foresight in the operation and management in all areas of the intramural sports program.

College Sports Television Internship
Internships available for: Ad sales, Internet, Graphics, Marketing, Operations, Public Relations, Production, Programming, Features, and Research.

Facilities and Event Management
A huge number of academic internships, and a few paid internships.