Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Student Manager

Nathaniel
Major: Sport Management Daily setup of practice Scheduled pregame and postgame meals Assisted in drills and scouting Assisted in recruiting Helped run summer camps

Hudsonville High School Athletics

Jerzy
Major: Sport Management During my time at Hudsonville High School's athletic department, I worked within the office and at events. In the office, I was sorting through team mail, team rosters, and paperwork that needed to be sent to other schools and the officials, and made sure that certain events had officials listed. At the events, I would sell tickets, work the door, and work with the event manager to ensure the event ran smoothly. I was also able to learn from not only the head athletic director but the assistant athletic director as well. I was well-informed on how to handle certain situations with athletes, parents, and workers. Overall, I was learning how to manage an athletic department and gained more knowledge about what an athletic director does on a daily basis.

Marketing intern

Shaun
Major: Sport Management I've performed various tasks including -Set up and tear down of marketing assets -Executed in-game promotions -In charge of videoboard or music during event -Created run of show scripts -Sponsorship fulfillment -On-campus marketing promotions -Inventoried marketing assets

East GR Parks & Rec Experience

Griffin
Major: Sport Management I have done quite a few tasks at EGR Parks & Rec. I started off by supervising middle school athletics during basketball season, supervising facility rentals, and setting up and tearing down various basketball clinics. As the department transitioned from Winter to Spring season I managed inventory and supplies, uploaded team schedules to the EGR Parks & Rec website, drafted team rosters on Middle School Athletics website, performed market research on facility and park rental rates, and have worked with the parks and field maintenance team to prepare the baseball and soccer fields for the upcoming season.

A Gold Medal Experience

Kateri
Major: Sport Management Some of my tasks / projects I completed throughout my time at my internship experience included; inputting data in excel, meeting tournament directors, reaching out to potential participants, attending events, and sending out merchandise shipments. One big project that was assigned to me was working on a digital yearbook the company is creating. This included properly transferring past Winter and Summer Games results into an excel sheet.

Coopersville Parks and Recreation Internship

Jimmy
Major: Sport Management During the winter, I mainly worked at the middle school working and doing several tasks. I filled in as a referee during the basketball season anytime Matt was not able to find other referees, and I was assigned to set up and tear down every athletic event, such as, setting up the tables, chairs, and the basketball hoops and managing the game clock. Also, their were a couple of City Council meetings I attended to as well. In the spring, I went to their coaches meetings for baseball and softball, and I helped Matt with field preparation for their spring sports, such as, lacrosse, soccer, baseball, and softball.

Internship at Allendale Public Schools

Brayden
Major: Sport Management I spent my time either working events or in the school. For events, I would set up before events, take down after, and make sure things were running smoothly during the event. Some things were specific to the sport. During boys soccer and basketball I would often be in charge of the clock and scoreboard. For football games I would work as the spotter, meaning I would watch who the ball carrier was and who made the tackle then give the numbers to the announcer. Most of my event work was focused on how to run an event and learn all the little details that make for a successful event. In the school, I did a wide range of tasks. Somedays it was organizing contracts. Other days I was hanging up or taking down posters in the gym. There were times where I just sat back and learned how do do things like scheduling games or would listen to my supervisor talk to coaches.

My Game Ops Experience

Robert
Major: Sport Management The tasks/projects I have completed are different in each sport. In all sports we set up and prepare the event beforehand. Iýve managed traffic for parking during the events and helped with post game tear down. Iýve also been a ball boy for soccer games. While not working games, I am in our departmentýs office completing other tasks such as doing inventory, making sure the golf carts are filled with gas, and helping with delivered packages.

GVSU Club Sports Promotions Intern

Taylor
Major: Sport Management While in this position I am in charge of all of the official GVSU Club Sports social media pages. I had to attend many events to gather content to create posts for socials. I also had to design the club sports website and keep up to date with all 40-plus clubs. I am in charge of the email and communicate daily with hundreds of students and peers.

Kennedy's Sport management Internship

Kennedy
Major: Sport Management Throughout my internship, I completed many tasks. On the daily, I would book hotel rooms for entire teams, and families. I would call hotels and create room blocks for numerous teams, which took a lot of patience and time. I also sent out mass emails weekly to the soccer club families informing them of weekly updates. I also took on my own team as a coach, and got to learn the sport management side of coaching. I answered phone calls, helped with event coordination etc. Each day there is a different task assigned.

Assistant Clubhouse Attendant

Tanner
Major: Sport Management I managed and took care of the visiting baseball teams when they would come in for a six game homestand as well as assisted with anything the home team needed. A usual day for me would be arriving around 11:30am. I would get the clean laundry out of the bins in my clubhouse and hang the players jersey and pants on a rack for them to grab when they walked in. I hung the coaches clothes in their lockers and made sure their shoes were cleaned. I would get coffee started and restock the water cooler with bottled water. I would finish drying towels for both clubhouses and get those folded throughout the day. I would then make sure all 6 water coolers in the dugouts were filled with ice and cold water for the game and that they had cups with them. Most teams would start to arrive by 1:30-2:00pm and I would assist with setting up their lunches when it arrived then clean it up before game time. I was in charge of keeping my clubhouse clean and organized by taking out the trash and making sure it was presentable. During the game I would wash and fold towels again so they were ready postgame. After the game was done I would have already setup their postgame meal when it was delivered during the game but would wait for all players to leave and head back to the hotel so I could begin cleaning up the postgame food, taking out the trash, organizing the clubhouse and getting all dirty laundry to the main clubhouse attendant to get started washed for the next day.

Windy City Thunderbolts Intern

Taylor
Major: Sport Management As a promotions intern, I assisted with the set up and execution of all on-field promotions, including selecting the contestants to participant in them. I also updated the game script for the announcer before every game.

NCMC Athletics

Brooke
Major: Sport Management As the intern of a brand new college athletic program, I had many responsibilities. I assisted the athletic director in scheduling, booking hotels and transportation for away sporting events, creating student athlete portfolios, and running new student orientations. I also ordered new equipment and assembled it for the athletic program.

Asst Camp Director with GVSU Basketball

Martin
Major: Sport Management It depended on the camp but I ran score clocks for games and kept track of stats, taught drills, coached, refereed games, helped register teams, ordered food, and worked admissions.

It's Your Summer

Shane
Major: Sport Management At the Whitecaps, I would help set up batting practice by placing screens and skirts to protect the field and players. Then I would smooth out the warning track before the game to make it a level playing field and I would also put in the bases for the game. There are 7-8 of us and we all had our specific job to make sure the game started on time. After the game, my job was to fix and prepare the mound for the game for the following day.

MSA Woodland Intern

Daniel
Major: Sport Management My main responsibilities for my internship included: maintaining facility maintenance of the Woodland Facility, scheduling facility rentals for clients, creating monthly schedules for the facility, checking in members for drop-in play, concessions work during tournaments/events, event set-up/tear down for tournament play, creating a practice plan for youth basketball coaches, office admin work and any other day-to-day tasks that were needed.

Kids adventures

tori
Major: Sport Management I have taught kids all different games and swimming lessons in the pool and out of the pool. We even got to use the golf simulator and I was able to teach the kids how to swing a gold club. There also were days where I taught arts and crafts.

MBA Coaching Experience

Brooke
Major: Sport Management I coached the 6th grade blue team, pictured above, for about 4 months. I then moved to coaching the 6th UA future team and a 9th/10th regional team which I will be with throughout the summer. Coaching consist of running multiple practices a week and traveling for tournaments on the weekend. I also gained a lot of experience in being a site manager at our location when we would host tournaments.

EGR Intern Experience

Nathan
Major: Sport Management Throughout my time working at East I have had the opportunity to work at basketball games, soccer games, and lacrosse games where I have been involved in the event set up, take down, and supervision. Day-to-day responsibilities include working on social media graphics, assisting the athletic director with facility maintenance, and learning the daily operations involved in running an athletic department.

Assistant Middle School Athletic Coordinator

Scott
Major: Sport Management The main project this semester has been a proposal for an overhaul of the entire athletic system in GRPS Middle School Athletics. We are attempting to have our middle schools join a conference and introduce a more competitive format to help prepare our students for high school athletics. Aside from this task I have done scheduling for several sports as well as assisted in a walk through at Van Andel arena and surrounding area for this fall's turkey trot. Additionally, I have done game operations, setting up and breaking down events, as well as officiating.

Internship Experince

ryan
Major: Sport Management While at my internship, I spent a lot of time recruiting players for future years. I also spent time working on a volleyball camp/event that will occur in the summer for high school volleyball players to attend. Lastly, I spent time helping out with day to day tasks like organizing practices, tournaments, etc.

Whitecaps Intern

Megan
Major: Sport Management As Reading Club Intern, it was my job to plan this season's Reading Club program. My main task was connecting with local schools to enroll them in our Reading Club program, where students who read a certain amount of time in the month of March are eligible to receive two free Whitecaps tickets. I handle individual Reading Club ticket redemption, and I also work with many schools to organize large group outings for schools who wished to use their Reading Club tickets in this manner. As this position falls into the Ticket Sales department, I am also involved in advance individual and group ticket sales, as well as working in the box office on game days to facilitate walk-up ticket sales.

Intern at Woodland

Jonathan
Major: Sport Management During the internship I was tasked with set up and tear down of daily sports events, phone calls for the different leagues we hosted, creating schedules and being apart of the brainstorming process for new ideas for potential growth during SWOT analysis development. As well as taking inventory for the building and other day to day tasks that arose.

GVSU Sports Marketing and Fan Development

Joanna
Major: Sport Management As a member of this crew, one of my main tasks was controlling the music on game days at Volleyball, Football, Soccer, and Men's and Women's Basketball. I was also responsible for setting up Softball's music for the year. Other tasks involved going to local businesses and handing out schedule cards to showcase what is happening on campus. As a part of the marketing team, we were in charge of carrying out in-game promotions, setting up sponsorship tables, and game-day activities for fans.

Compliance Intern

Gabe
Major: Sport Management I was able to validate prospective student-athlete scholarship tenders and assist with student-athlete eligibility checks. Projects I assisted with were the Indoor Track Conference Championship, updating Championship Manuals, and planning media days.