Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Benton Harbor/Saint Joseph YMCA

Ryan
Major: Sport Management I Worked in the areas of administration, maintenance, personal training, youth sports, day camp, and worked closely with youth director and sports director. Some of my responsibilities included working on marketing for personal trainers, revising their EAP, working with maintenance to design better cleaning practices, help supervise weight/cardio rooms, and worked at summer day camp as a counselor.

Wilderness Tripping Leader

Kat
Major: Sport Management I was responsible for planning and leading a 14 day backpacking trip to Isle Royale National Park in the waters of Lake Superior. I planned a program for my participants that was focused around self and group awareness growth goals. I maintained the health and safety of the group during the trip and provided a foundation that fostered self-sufficiency among the participants. Off trail, I completed property maintenance, gear repair and various community tasks as needed.

GVSU Athletics Intern

Caity
Major: Sport Management We were responsible of running all the promotions during the sporting events at GVSU. We also helped promote and market the games to the students as well as the community outside of GV.

Grand Rapids Griffins Youth Foundation Internship

Chase
Major: Sport Management I helped in the planning and the organization of the Great Skate Winterfest. Helped to organize, plan, and set up for the foundations Career Day. Created a comprehensive end-of-year survey for parents and kids, and then broke down the results and data, and presented it to the board of directors. I helped to find grant opportunities for the foundation. I also did research and statistical preparation for Griffins game day radio broadcasts.

Western Michigan University

Megan
Major: Sport Management - Executed all aspects of video operations including film breakdown, game capture, and live coding using SportsCode and Synergy Video programs - Utilized Scoutware program to input recruits and maintain database - Created mailouts and organized the distribution to potential recruits

megan@deltaplex.com

Andrea
Major: Sport Management As an assistant to the event directors, I aided with event organization, ticket sales, and logistics. On event days, I acted as contact person for vendors and promotors and also helped out around the arena where needed. This included working parking, box office, in concessions, and security. I also aided in event setup and execution.

Behind The Scenes: Professional Hockey

Luke
Major: Sport Management My position includes many responsibilities. I performed office hours during the week and work 12+ hour days on game nights. I was responsible for managing the promotional energy crew of 14 people. I acted as a liaison between the Director of Game Operations and outside entertainment personnel. I carried out all aspects of game presentation including game day documents, on-ice entertainment, national anthem coordination, pre-game player entrance, video creation, and coordinated afternoon hockey games. In addition, I planned, coordinated, and supervised an entire theme night through guidance from my supervisor and video production team.

Griffins Game Night Internship

TJ
Major: Sport Management During a regular day, our group of Gabe night interns come in about 4 hours before game time to set up the suites in the Van Andel Arena. After this, we head down to the box office where our primary responsibility is to sell game tickets, manage will call, and help with ticket resolution. After this, we are responsible for helping run and clean up intermission games on the ice, assisting the mascots with their needs, and performing T-shirt toss. Following the game we assist with clean-up, jersey auctions, giveaways, and selling tickets to future games.

NMU Intern

Max
Major: Sport Management While at NMU, I was tasked with supervising the ticket staff which is comprised of ticket sellers and ticket takers. My duties included supervising the staff at games and events, hiring new staff, training new staff, as well as managing events.

Austin Sports & Social Club

Madeline
Major: Sport Management The Austin Sports and Social Club internship was extremely well-rounded, allowing me to truly learn how a sports organization comes together. It also provided the opportunity to specialize in areas of interest, working with those related departments. I focused my time in three main departments: player services, logistics, and marketing. Below are highlights from each department; it is in no means all-inclusive. Player services: Managed the info account for 25,000+ players Managed and sorted data to construct teams Managed the roster compliance database Compiled registration reports Constructed conflict management exam for officials/coordinators Recorded and responded to league survey responses Logistics: Created and posted schedules for multiple leagues Created playoff brackets for multiple leagues Created and managed tournament brackets and standings Compiled venue reference files Marketing: Managed social media accounts with 20,000+ followers Prepared monthly marketing reports utilizing analytics Designed venue placement database for back linking options Established Google My Business accounts On the field: Built knowledge base to successfully officiate flag football Coordinated multiple tournaments Managed championship brackets and standings Enhanced conflict management and public speaking abilities

2016 Masters Outdoor Championships

Torben
Major: Sport Management Designed and ordered medals Advertised for volunteers Catered all the food for volunteers and officials Updated all the website information Designed and certified the race walk course Created national championship patches Designed and ordered volunteer t-shirts Designed the athlete banquet tickets Emailed all banquet attendees Planned and ordered tents and porta-johns for event Delegated responsibilities to my assistant Delegated responsibilities to extra volunteers Assisted in event operations during meet Helped set up and tear down event Assisted in designing the advertisement signage Helped USATF with any necessary tasks

Inner City Youth Baseball/Softball- YMCA Program

Angela
Major: Sport Management As I mentioned above, the YMCA focuses on strengthening the West Michigan Community by giving back and supporting our neighbors. A way I was able to do that this summer, was by helping the Y coordinate and put on their Inner City Youth Baseball/Softball program. This program was absolutely free with the help of our sponsors, Meijer, Fifth-Third Bank, and the Whitecaps organization. The program allowed kids, grades 1st-8th to participate in a free summer baseball/softball league where they were provided with uniforms, nightly dinners, coaches, and a summer full of memories.

Crimson Club Donor Relations

Patrick
Major: Sport Management I was in charge of gathering data, pictures, and writing excerpts for the Annual Giving Guide for the recent school year. The annual report outlines accomplishments of the athletes, teams, and what the money that was donated went to. The 20 page guide was recently completed by a graphic designer and will be released online and in print. I have also helped with creating letters to donors and compiling donor gifts.

2016 Meijer State Games of Michigan

Julian
Major: Sport Management I worked with the Meijer State Games of Michigan as their Vendor Coordinator. My job was to bring in different organizations/businesses to be apart of our Opening Ceremonies event which kicks off the games. After about 50 days of preparation for the games, we worked the opening ceremonies event and assisted each sport to help make the Summer Games a huge hit!

Spartan Fund Internship

Chris
Major: Sport Management I was responsible for donor prospect research, reaching out and thanking donors, answering phone calls, updating personal information, and helping out in any other way that the team needed. My three months here were a very busy time for us because we run on a fiscal year from July 1st - June 30th. I also did a lot of administrative work to help keep our office from falling behind. This work included folding thank you letters, stuffing envelopes, creating new donor packets, scanning in pledge forms, and doing mail runs.

Internship at Fox Hills Golf and Banquet Center

Kyle
Major: Sport Management I was responsible for helping with setting up the various golf outings that we had at the course. Once the outing or tournament was completed, I assisted with scoring the events. As league coordinator, I helped with scheduling leagues and collecting league payments from all the golfers that made up the individual leagues. As Director of Junior Golf, I was able to communicate with parents and participants about league schedules and rules. I was able to help and organize both the junior leagues and the adult leagues so that they were able to play every week throughout the summer.

Intern

Hripsime
Major: Sport Management I am working with the YMCA inner city baseball/softball program. I have done everything and anything that is needed of me. I go to fields and make sure everything is running smooth, I pass out food to kids, I register kids, I update rosters, and I recruit players and coaches.

MHSAA Intern

Kevin
Major: Sport Management Daily responsibilities and skills will be handling daily correspondence, insurance planning, officials training, tournament scheduling and policy writing

Wayland Union High School

Kevin
Major: Sport Management Most of the work I did with Justin included scheduling games for various sports, sending emails to receive sports contracts, creating a list of all the schools in the OK Gold Conference and providing addresses to all athletic venues, getting proofs and estimates on a record board project currently being done at the high school and not to mention coaching the JV baseball team.

Track and Field Internship

Brandon
Major: Sport Management Compilation and distribution of a biweekly newsletter to alumni, which was comprised of multiple athlete interviews. Management of social media accounts, more specifically live tweeting meets and posting photos and videos to Instagram. Meet set up and tear down. Promotion of upcoming summer camps at home meets and local high schools.

Grand Rapids Griffins Game Night Intern

Erin
Major: Sport Management As a Game Night Intern, most of my tasks involved box office duties. These tasks included ticket sales, will call, and customer service duties. Also, during select games I worked in guest services. In guest services I was able to give great customer service and help with any issues that may happen. Throughout my internship I was able to help distribute promotional items, assist with season ticket holder benefits, and assist with payments during jersey auctions.

GVSU Rec Center Intern

Matthew
Major: Sport Management As a staff member/intern my main non-project based assignment is to keep the environment friendly. We stress customer service with the best of them. I find this so important as I flip the page to the next chapter of my life. The project-based assignment I am in charge of is research how to have great employee retention. The rec center has struggled over the years retaining their employees. I communicate with other universities around the country and our area to see if they have answers.

City of East Jordan

Logan
Major: Sport Management While I was an intern at my site, I helped develop and organize recreational sports leagues (dodgeball, kickball, flag football, beach volleyball, soccer, etc.). I created information packets for league captains. I opened up our local recreational facility for pick-up volleyball, basketball, and dodgeball games. I was also responsible for collecting and tracking money for these games. I interacted with the players at these pick-up games and helped assist them with any questions or concerns. I also helped research and plan a men's fast pitch softball league that will begin spring/summer 2016.

Assistant Trainer

Matthew
Major: Sport Management My job was to assist Andrea Martin with her clients. With this I had to create meal plans, workouts, and clean up after sessions.

Internship/PED 490

Raphael
Major: Sport Management Tasks included scheduling, set-up/tear down, admissions, game manager, student-athlete eligibility, official and game contracts, communications with parents, coaches and other ADs', etc. Worked closely on projects like new strategic plan for the District Athletic Code and Coaching Handbook.