This is my practice post for my WEP at XL soccer world focusing on the sports management and communications aspects of the facility. I’m very excited to start!
Tag: Sports Management
Day 7 (Vanguard Sports Agency)
Because for my work experience at vanguard I am doing a project instead of the interning. Since I finished the majority of the project yesterday, i took the liberty of waiting till 12 before adding my finishing touches to it. The first part of the project was too list football, baseball, and basketball players who came out of North Carolina in the past four years and to identify their earning potential. The second part of the project was to read over Vanguards recruiting packet and address what I found most attractive and what I would else i would wish I had saw. Doing this project gave me a lot of questions for Brett, which is why I’m really looking foreword to meeting with him tomorrow. Most of my questions are in regards to how they go about picking which clients to go after.
Day 6 (Vanguard Sports)
Today I met with Brett Smith from Vanguard sports groups. Vanguard Sports group is a sports agency that represents baseball, football, and basketball. They started their representation of basketball players this year after gaining there first client in Wendell carter. In football they have notable names like Von miller and Kennan Allen as clients. Instead of working at Vanguard Brett gave Brooke and I a project to work on for the next two days. The first project was to review the materials they use for recruiting young clients. Brett thought we would have insight on what is appealing to attracting young athletes since many of the athletes they recruit are the same age as us. The second project was to go through the past few drafts and identify the players coming out of North Carolina, and to calculate agent fees after 4 years.
Day 5 USA Baseball
Today was easily my best day in the work experience program. Brooke and I arrived to USA baseball’s headquarters a little before 9:30. Brittany the assistant director of a marketing showed us around the office and introduced us to a number of her co-workers before putting us to work. I liked the office a lot. Most of the people working there were either interns who are currently in college or students who have graduated in the past few years. We started to by putting together information packets for baseball players coming for upcoming tryouts/ tournaments. We had to use the printer for about an hour to print a plethora of papers. We had a little trouble at first, but after are first round we quickly got into a grove. Once we had paper printed we assembled them into the information packet. Then we put together name tags for the USA host family. The host family’s are families around the triangle who volunteer house and feed players around the country while they have tryouts/ tournaments in the area. We went to lunch after the name tags and when we returned to make information for the host family. While we didn’t do anything extravagant I found the work interesting, and really liked the atmosphere of USA baseball.