ICE 16-20

The first internship I found was with Robert Morris University in Illinois as an assistant softball coach. This position's responsibilities are helping the Head Coach coordinate team practice, making the schedule, competition itineraries and away trips, recruitment, and helping with budgeting.

The next job opportunity I found was on the NAIA website as the Director of Eligibility. This job requires leadership in communitcation, becoming a member of the NAIA Eligibility Center, management team, and serve as a key member of the team responsible for making eligibility determinations for first-time NAIA student-athletes.

At the University of Connecticut they are seeking an assistant manager of athletic fields. This individual is reponisible for reporting directly to the Manager of athletic fields and will assist in overseeing staff responsible for the preparation and maintenance of top quality athletic fields and outdoor athletic facilities to ensure student-athlete and spectator safety.

Bucknell University is a small institute in Pennsylvania looking for a softball intern. They are NCAA Division I and the reponsibilities for the job include on-field coaching and recruitment of academically qualified student-athletes.

The University of Michigan is seeking an internship in athletic groundskeeping. This job includes assisting in day-to-day operations involved with maintaining playing fields, practice fields, and facilities for the University of Michigan Baseball, Softball, and Track and Field programs.

Turner Field Visit

We went on a guided tour of turner field on Thursday, November 11, 2010. The tour started and ended in the Braves Museum and Hall of Fame. The tours start at the top of the hour and last about an hour long. The tour consisted of the Braves Museum & Hall of Fame, Coca-Cola Sky Field, Scouts Alley, Broadcast Booth, Luxury Suite, Press Box, Clubhouse, The Plaza, Dugout, and Museum Store. We all got to go on the field and go where the players and the players' families go. Our tour guide showed us the $1 seats that I did not know they had and told us about internships available through Turner Field. At the end of the tour, in the museum, we walked through a model train which is how baseball players back in the day used to travel to their games. It was very interesting to be one of the few people in the stadium and to learn about the places you never go when you just go to a summer baseball game.

GAE 6-10

Graduate Assistantship in Athletic Training

Illinois State University is looking for a graduate assistant for the Athletic Training Department. The Graduate Assistant is responsible for assisting in all facets of athletic training covering the assigned sport. You must have a 3.0 in the last 60 hours and qualifying GRE score.

Graduate Assistant for Events and Game Operations

Mercer University is seeking a graduate assistant for assisting in organizing, staffing, and managing all athletic events and operations. Bacelor's degree and admission to the Master's of Business Administration program.

Graduate Assistant in Sports Information

Mercer University is also looking for someone to assist in all aspects of sports information for the university's intercollegiate programs including press releases, serving as satisfaction, developing web media guides, publications, the university's athletic website, and stories to local media. Traveling is required.

Academic Support Services

At Purdue University, you need a Bachelor's degree and admission to a Purdue University graduate program. This job requires assisting assigned academic advisor and sport team members with academic advising issues.

Division of Student Affairs

At the University of Tennesee, you must have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and earned a 2.7 GPA during the senior year of undergraduate study. For this position, you must have strong computer and communication skills.

Human Resource Management

Jay and I are seeking are a job for a conference commissioner for the Appalachian Athletic Conference in the NAIA. The person is responisible for eligibility for all the players in all sports of the conference, make sure the teams in the conference, oversee the group of teams in the conference, and enforce policies and guidelines involving each participating school's athletic teams. You must have a Bacelor's degree in a sports related field and strong written and verbal communication skills. They need to be very organized, confident, motivated, and firm in decision making. Experience in athletic directing is a plus. To apply, fill out an online application with 3 references and contact the AAC director. The deadline is March 2010. The intern is going to be evaluated on is leadership skills, communication skills, knowledge of the AAC, education, willingness to travel, organization, and motivation.

Ga Tech/ Ga Dome Visit

Thursday our Sport Administration class took a trip to Georgia Tech and Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. At Ga Tech, we took a tour of the Campus Recreation Center. It is ranked one of the top ten public universities in the nation. They got a whole new Aquatics Venue for the 1996 Olympic Games. After the Games, they began to plan for a whole new facility. Johnathan Hart led us in our tour and began to tell us about all the problems they have had in the past few years with the diving pool and all the piping problems. The facilty they have their is incredible, and would love to run one like it one day.

We then we across the street to the Ga Dome. Here they had just redone all the seats, making them black and red for the falcons. He gave us a tour of all the suites and the vip areas of the dome. We went to the Falcons locker room and saw all where they take showers and the coaches rooms. Then we walked through the portal where the Falcons run out of on game day and got to stand on the field. They had a lot of workers working on the field and pressure washing every seat in the stadium. We also got to see where all the media go and work on gameday. I did not know how much work goes into one day of football for a facility like the Ga Dome, but it was amazing!

Guest Speaker: Bob Pearson

Bob Pearson from Berry College spoke to our class about his job at Berry and gave us pointers about life and careers. He has been at Berry College for 29 years and is the athletic director and the department chair of kinesiology. He mentioned that every day is different for him on the job. Pearson teaches anywhere from 15 to 29 hours a week and advises students as well. When we first got there, he gave us three things that he called "gifts," and they were a bright green notecard, a whistle, and a paper holder. He was very personal with each of us and asked each student what sport they played. Bob then had the class read off one quote from the sheet of paper he gave us, and we had to interpret the quote and what it meant to us. I learned a lot from his speech because he taught us to always do the right thing even if it is the smallest of things.

Internships 11-15

The five internships I researched were an assistant professor/assistant director at Virginia Commonwealth University,  a physical education assistant professor at Los Rios Community College, the head softball coach at Los Rios Community College, and the assistant ticket manager at Mississippi State University. The internship I was most interested in out of these jobs was the head softball coach at Los Rios Community College because it also offers a job in physical education which are the two careers I want to seek when I graduate. They have had a winning program in the past, and I really think I could continue with the trend.