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.

Guest Speaker: Bill Popp

On Tuesday Bill Popp, the Reinhardt Athletic Director and Head Baseball Coach, visited our class and told us all about his career and how he got to be the Athletic Director at Reinhardt. He went to West Georgia College where he played baseball for 3 years before transferring to Kennesaw State University. He received his Bachelor's Degree from KSU and then went to Oglethorpe where he was a volunteer baseball coach. He was called up as the head coach the following year and kept that job for 11 years. He then came here to Reinhardt where he started the baseball program in 2004. The school has gotten a lot bigger since then and added a number of other sports: Softball, Men's Lacrosse and Women's Lacrosse.

There are currently about 240+ athletes that attend Reinhardt.Reinhardt went from NJCAA to the NAIA to be included with the other 290 teams in the NAIA.Reinhardt also recently went from the SSAC to the AAC. He also told us how our men's soccer team had 3/4 of the total ejections last year of all men's soccer teams in the NAIA. Our conference is currently searching for more teams to add to the AAC. At Reinhardt they are looking at adding a few programs as well: Football and maybe Track.

Popp told us that a lot of what his duties are as the Athletic Director include the eligibility process for all athletes, as well as a list of criteria that each student needs to meet. I asked him what was one of the main reasons that Reinhardt changed conferences and he said that one of the main ones was the amount of money that we were getting for scholarships as compared to the amount that the other schools in our conference were getting. Another reason was that it was one of our program and school goals to match our playing field with those in the AAC.

I found this speech to be particularly interesting because I could see myself traveling down a similar road later on in my future.

Graduate Assistantship Explorations 1-5

For my five Graduate Assistantships, I chose these five positions: Tourism/Recreation/Sport Management, Athletic Training, Career Events, Intramural Sports, and a facilities graduate assistantship. I found all of these at the University of Florida.

The Tourism/Recreation/Sport Management graduate assistantship requires me to concentrate on tourism and commercial recreation, natural resource recreation, recreation administration and supervision, and campus recreation programming and administration.

The Athletic Training graduate assistantship program provides for intensive study in the sports medicine area emphasizing prevention, assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, therapeutic modalities, and administration. Clinical experience in the field is expected throughout the student’s tenure in the program. An extensive clinical outreach program provides assistantship opportunities for students who are certified athletic trainers.

The Career Events graduate assistantship requires me to assist in the coordination and implementation of the bi-annual Career Showcase and other career events. I also work with recruits, trains, and manage the showcase student committee and day-of-event hosts. I will work with my supervisor to create a plan to maintain a sustainable showcase committee. I will also make ongoing connections with employers, students, faculty and staff to promote career events and other center activities. I will aid in the management and maintenance of the Gator CareerLink Career Events Database System, and I will also conduct research and provide data analysis for career fairs and events.

For the Intramural Sports graduate assistantship, I would provide full administration of major and minor team and individual sports as well as special events. I would also help with extramural flag football and basketball tournaments; recruits, hires and trainings 300+ student officials each year.

The facilities graduate assistantship requires me to help manage two Fitness Centers and the Broward Outdoor Recreation Complex with hiring, scheduling, training, supervising, and evaluating the staff. I develop training strategies for employees and administers and updates facility inspection procedures for the recreation centers and other recreation facilities on campus. I also help with the development of the budget.

YMCA Site Visit

The Ped 350 class toured the YMCA in Canton Tuesday September 14th, 2010. Our tour guide Nicole Lawson gave us a tour of all parts of the facility: The main lobby, gym (basketball courts, volleyball nets, indoor track), aquatic areas (Indoor and outdoor pools), aerobics room, weight room, day care room, cycle room, cardio room, recreation room (with pool tables, etc.), and the Reinhardt room.
The YMCA center offers a number of different jobs ranging from membership management to lifeguarding. You could also be a cardio instructor, cycling instructor, aerobics instructor, aquatics instructor, and day care provider as well as other office and management jobs.
From this visit I have learned that there are a number of jobs that I can attain, even though they aren't the jobs I want to have for a life-long career,  that can help me in achieving contacts and opening my social network in my career field. Knowing people is a huge part of getting a job you want. It's all about who you know in the job fields.

Internship-Career Exploration Submissions 1-5

I researched and found five potential interships and/or careers: North Georgia College and State University Assistant Softball Coach, Davenport University Assistant Women's Soccer Coach, Iowa Lakes Community College Head Softball Coach, Athletic Marketing and Promotions Assistant at the University of Arkansas, and a Sports Performance Internship with Olympic sports at Stanford University.

Each of these have their own unique features about them that I find interesting and can see myself enjoying as a future career or internship.I am interested in pursuing a coaching career, and I am also good with marketing. Since I am a college athlete, I know a lot about strength and conditioning as well and so I find the Sports Performance Internship to be a path that would give me a great experience and help me get to my next step in my career path.

NGC&SU Assistant Softball Coach: I would be helping set up practices and organize team activities.


Davenport University Assistant Women's Soccer Coach: Assisting in coordinating practices. Work directly with the players and can work one on one with them for individual training.

Iowa Lakes Community College Head Softball Coach: Establishing a team and schedule. Organizing practices and work out schedules for players. Keeping athletes grades up and help them remain eligible to play.

Athletic Marketing and Promotions Assistant at the University of Arkansas: Working to manage the teams' budget and organize fundraiser activities and events. Also promoting the team and encouraging people to attend athletic events.

Sports Performance Internship with Olympic sports at Stanford University: Training athletes hoping to compete in Olympic sports. Establishing a strength and conditioning training program as well as a nutritional program.

Guest Speaker: Vic Mitchell

Vic Mitchell, the Shorter University Head Women's basketball coach, visited our class on Tuesday and talked to us all about things we should do when deciding a career and picking a location and a number of other things.He got his undergraduate degree as well as his graduate degree at The University of Georgia. He first managed mens basketball after a summer of volunteer work, which he said was a important thing when trying to be asked to stay on for a job later. After he managed the team, he got a desk in the coach's office and started doing more recruiting work. For 14 years at Shorter he has coached multiple sports.

He wanted us to know that if we are going to be a coach that it is important to get involved with that schools events. You also have to be able to work with people well, and know how to set up and run effective practices. You should also go into a job knowing what it is going to take to make the sport successful. Know the philosophy of the institution that you are going into, whether that be to make money, win, academics, or whatever it may be. Think about the benefits and costs of every decision you make.

I really learned from Vic that it is important to get involved with as many things during school as possible to get experience. You also have to work your way up in every position you want to achieve. You can't just get your dream job, you have to start with the small jobs (like managing a men's basketball team). Also you must make sure you stay on top of your duties as a coach and when you are told to do something, they expect you to do it no mater what you have going on.

"Becoming Invaluable" Article Response

I agree with the article "Becoming Invaluable" when it says that you should make sure you have plenty of talents and are very well-rounded. It is better to be good at a number of things rather than to be great at only a couple of things. The article also was very helpful in giving me a guidline for what I should be doing to prepare myself for my future career in sports after each year in college. I like how it emphasized how important it was to look into internships and graduate programs before you need to in order to get familiar with all of it and be ready to start your career.

I like how the article also was realistic in telling me just what I am going to be going into with my career plans and how competitive it will be. If I am not planning to go to graduate school, then i have to know just how much I will be behind those workers I am competing with that did go to graduate school. I also recieved a number of tips for writing my resume, and what I should be doing to make my resume as impressive as possible.

I also agree with the points the article made when it was talking about planning for my career strategically. Looking into all the aspects of my future career is very important in finding the right job and location to work at. Overall, this article was very helpful in setting up my future education plans as well as career plans.

Guest Speaker: Peggy Collins Feerehy

This Tuesday we had a guest speaker in class. Peggy Collins Feerehy works at Reinhardt University and she is the Director of Career Services. She was very helpful in providing the class with information on writing resumes and how to pursue future career options. Mrs. Feerehy told the class how it is important to visit career fairs and there are going to be four career fairs this school year alone. She also informed us that it is important to dress business-like to help in appearing like you are serious about finding a career that suits you.

She also provided us with plenty of helpful tips to keep in mind when writing your resumes. She said it was important to start with verbs when describing your skills, then you should list your previous jobs and positions in cronological order, and finish up your resume with a summary. References should be given on a separate piece of paper from the rest of your resume. Portfolios are better in showing the smployer what you look like and how you work. She said that it was important to "know what you are selling."

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