Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

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.

adidas Group Internship

Trevor
Major: Sport Management I updated Marketing Overhead and Marketing working budget for marketing groups. Reclassed expenses to be charged to the correct cost center using SAP. I created organization charts for the company. Updated athlete contracts on athlete management system (AMS), an online database for storing details of athlete contracts. I also consolidated bank charges onto excel spreadsheets and organized binders with various lease agreements, bank guarantees, and line of credits.

McCahill Group Intership Experience

Juan
Major: Sport Management Give weight lifting introductions to new members Give tours of the facility to potential members Lead a group fitness class day-to-day maintenance Create/implement my own fitness program with members Lead "Agency PUMP" for Farmers University Create health related articles for members Market new products sales of products, memberships, etc

Inclusion and Innovation at Grand Valley Athletics

Joe
Major: Sport Management As a intern for the athletic department under Associate Athletic Director Keri Becker, I was fortunate to work on several great projects. One of which was the new transgender student-athlete policy that Grand Valley has created for the upcoming year. I was in charge of preparing a presentation to the entire coaching staff to educate them on the new policy. This was extremely informative and I learned so much about inclusion in athletics. Grand Valley has shown that they pride themselves on being proactive and not reactive. I also have been working on the "ooVoo Champion Project". The purpose of the project is to further help student-athletes meet their obligations as students as well as athletes. The project allows student-athletes to have class recorded that they miss due to travel and watch them on their own time. The program reinforces that Grand Valley's student-athletes are truly students first, athletes second and further ensure we are "creating the best learning environment possible".

Sky's the limit

Fateah
Major: Sport Management Assisted Youth Basketball specialist with Court of Dreams programs in which youth teams get to play on the Sky court for 2 hours prior to the game. Setup and transported Sky material to and from event, team practices,and tournaments. Assisted running basketball clinics with youth at various schools and gym throughout the Chicagoland area. Sold tickets and obtained donations for Sky Cares.

Summer Lacrosse the Midwest

Steven
Major: Sport Management I was the head coach for the Varsity Elite team. My job was to plan and create practices that will contribute to the growth of players' fundamentals, and their Lacrosse IQ's. I was in charge of travel, which was driving rental vehicles, and making sure coaches arrive safely and on time to the sites of their games.

Storm Basketball

Ronald
Major: Sport Management I helped plan two of the biggest AAU basketball tournaments in west Michigan (Storm Classic and Brawl for the Ball. The Storm hosted both of them. I helped plan and run each of the tournaments. I also helped with clinics, practices, and camps ran by the Storm. I even handled equipment duties such as shoes, jerseys, shorts, etc.

Personal Trainer

Tim
Major: Sport Management created workouts, took clients through workouts

Game Of Your Life Experience

Joshua
Major: Sport Management I worked at a tour assistant for every TaylorMade-Adidas Collegiate Series events. My job was to set up the golf course, be a rules official and do the scoring once players are done with their rounds. While working at the shop, I became an excellent salesperson by selling golf equipment and I also had the opportunity to teach junior golfers of all ages during the camps and clinics that I ran. At the Golf Club of Coldwater, I was in charge of running the junior golf leagues. Which consisted of a 30-minute lesson then help the kids on the golf course. One task for the college tour that I did, was answer phone calls at the tour office, register players, explain rules and processes, and put together packets to send out to members of our tour. As well as keep the web page up to date at all time.

Rec Facilities Intern experience

Daniel
Major: Sport Management Worked on benching marking and fundraising projects related to recreation space, enrollment, space per student, as well as fundraising research for student organizations. Learned about day to day operations and maintenance of all rec facilities, including all outdoor rec, rec center, pool, fitness center, weight room, Kelly Turf building. Help with preventative maintenance tasks, worked with student staff, attending monthly staff meetings, as well as weekly meeting with management. Help with set-up and tear down of some events and activities, and learned about scheduling and memberships.

GV Football Summer 2013

Mitch
Major: Sport Management While working for Coach Mitchell and Grand Valley's football team I was able to monitor and oversee numerous events. I worked as the liaison during the MHSAA All-Star game, ensuring each high school team on campus had everything they needed, working 14 hour days and multiple practices. I also monitored Grand Valley's annual youth camps that they hold each summer, keeping track of timing and scheduling so that the camp didn't go to long. Seeing that it was the off season for the football program there wasn't a lot of hands on experience, but I learned a lot from shadowing and networking with the coaching staff. I look forward to coming back in the fall and working with the Coach Mitchell throughout the season.

Griffins Internship

Mitch
Major: Sport Management When I was interning with the Grand Rapids Griffins I was in charge of select concourse areas on game nights, as well as working in the box office with the ticketing operations team. There were times that we as interns had special projects to take care of, this meant coming in on weekends and overseeing the cross ice jamboree and season ticket holder events. I also monitored post game autograph sessions and jersey auctions that took place throughout the regular season.

Game & Event Operations

Nico
Major: Sport Management Tasks include but are not limited to set up and tear down of all field equipment used during the game, set up of scoreboards and music. Hosted visiting team and officials, aided with direction as far as where these visiting teams and officials are supposed to go.