CANTON YMCA VISIT

Yesterday we visited the Canton YMCA in WAleska Georgia. The membership coordinator Nicole Lawson was I tour guide person. She talk to us about the basic step of joining the YMCA membership club and the benefits she stated that they had over 9000 members at their location alone. She also talked about the requirements of her job and the opportunities they offer to student as far as practicums and internships and summer employeement.. For me this was a good learning experience have worked at the YMCA in Newnan, Ga i never knew that they offer the the opportunity to do your practicum and internships, feel ass if this gave me the oppportunity to ask questions about this closer to home.

Becoming Invaluable

When looking at the Becoming Invaluable slide show (the guidelines for Sport Studies Majors), I realized that it is a good bit of things that I have not done within the guidelines. I did notice that in any year freshman sophomore etc. academics is a major part of succeeding within this major. To be honest most of the things listed in the slide show I have never even seen or even thought. I feel that by looking at this guideline it will give me more of an idea of what I need to do and what I should focus on more while finishing up school.

1-5 Internship/Career

Below you will find summaries of careers and internships that interest me and may also interest you.:

Basketball Operations Internship

The Washington Mystics Basketball Operations Intern will assist the Vice-President/General Manager and Basketball Operations Coordinator in all Mystics basketball operations efforts. This role will focus on Mystics basketball operations efforts both in-season and during the off-season (depending on the time of the internship). The candidate will work on the day-to-day operations, strategies and objectives of the department. During the summer internship, attendance at all Mystics home games and road games is required. The position reports to the General Manager.

Fall 2010 IT Internship

Responsible for troubleshooting end user, communicating and developing solutions and writing to customers and manage. Develop plans that are effective to complete classes within the company. Provide support to an internal client base of 100+ users, track databases. Etc.

Game Day/Night Internship

In this intern you will be required to assist Stampede Staff with game promotions, PA scripts and merchandise. You will also be required to assist daily preparations and attend all pre-game and post game meetings. As the intern you will have to coordinate on site event setups, activities and put ups. You will also sometimes be asked to perform as such a secretary will do.

Crunch Fitness Personal Trainer

• Maintain the organization and neat presentation of the fitness floors at all times.


• Be a positive representative of Crunch and its philosophies.

• Conduct safe and effective personal training & stretch sessions.

• Obtain all mandatory education certifications.

• Submit Bi Weekly Client Report Form at beginning of day.

Head Nutrition
 
Responsibility within this career is that it you will have to develop athletic nutrition program, making one on one nutrition plans for groups. Work with F&B program to develop nutrition plans, menus etc.

Guest Speaker Vic Mitchell (Shorter University Head WBB Coach)

We recently had the head womens basketball coach of Shorter University. He spoke to us about how he started his career by being a volunter first, the obstacles he faced as a coach; how he help developed programs such as the RC varsity sport programs, etc.; how important as a coach to have a strong foundation and supporters; how he developed his coaching style; when going to your job you should research it. He  talked to us about the keys to being and having a AD. He also gave us the break down of how a good successful athletic department (Shorter)runs and how the chain of commands are broken down. Having Coach Mitchell was a great experience it gave us an opportunity to learn from a coaching stand point the basic steps to take and showed us although you may start at a low level you can become very successful threw various opportunities.

Guest Speaker 8-30-2010 (Peggy Collins Feerehy)

Today in class we had a the director of career servicesas a guest speaker. Her main points in her while speaking was to inform use about how to create resumes and profile with a website called called focus, college board and job services which we can obtain on the career services website on our school page. Mrs. Collins also informed us about carrer fair that the school usually attends each year. Sife is a program with in the business department that comes together as a group each year and creates a buisness presentation that they present to companies that Mrs. Collins aso talked about. From our guest speaker I learned alto but one of the main things I came to realize is that there is no reason for me to have a good job by the time i graduate because our school offers many opportunities and many services to help in anyway possible.