Georgia Dome Site Visit

Reinhardt University

Sport Studies Program

Site Visit Summary

Sport Site:                                Georgia Dome                                                              Date     11/17/11                       

Location:                      Atlanta                                     

Site Contact:                                                                

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

• Desk-Place where you sign up for a tour, bathrooms, elevator, Falcon’s locker room
• Top level-Place for observers from each team to watch
• Mid level-Suites (major suites and individual suites)
• Verizon Wireless Club-Buy mid level seats and get full access to club that comes with places to eat and drink and a place to watch the game
• Plenty of sitting space and places to get food and other things
• Bathrooms and TVs everywhere
• Press box-unique because it is on the side not behind the field goal posts
• Restaurants on both ends of the field
• Field itself-Hosts both falcons and GA State games

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

• Ticket Sales
• Marketing
• Work in the restaurants
• Maintain clubs and sweets
• Cleaning
• Tour Guide
• Sales
• Media
• Press
• Field Maintenance
• Dome Maintenance
• Architect
• CSC work

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

I learned a lot about the dome itself that I didn’t know was true. I also learned that the dome tries to make everything as convenient for its visitors as possible. I learned what the ceiling of the dome was made of. I like how their press box is different than the others and how such a big place can be made with less money if the design is right.

Student Name                           Erin Courington                        

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011          

Turner Field Site Visit

Reinhardt University

Sport Studies Program

Site Visit Summary

Sport Site:                    Turner Field                                                                               Date     11/3/11            

Location:                      Atlanta, GA                                          

Site Contact:                                                                

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

• Hall of Fame-Houses the Braves best player’s jerseys along with other memorabilia from the braves past. Tours are booked here
• Suites and casino- This area has a casino place and houses all the suites that the stadium has to offer along with the 755 Club. Each suite has a TV and couch area and a deck with quite a few seats to sit in and watch the game from outside. The club has its own restaurant and drinking area then an outside deck where you can eat and watch the game
• Sky deck-Highest point of the stadium where fans can watch the game and there are a few interactive things up there
• Braves locker room/training area/suntrust club-This area had the braves locker room which is round so the players are never in a corner locker. Down the same hallway is the training facility and the Suntrust Club. The Suntrust club has a restaurant area and a door that leads straight to behind the plate on the field.
• The field-where the braves play
• Braves dugout-Manager always stays to the left where the video of the bullpen is. Players no assigned seating

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

• Sports Marketing-Marketing the braves and drawing more fans in
• Sales-Sales within the stadium and outside of the stadium
• Ticket Sales-Be in charge of tickets during and before games
• Tour Guides-Giving tours of the stadium
• Hall of Fame management-Watching over the area and making sure everything is up to par
• Security-Constant security within the stadium is needed
• Team management-making sure the team has everything needed and everything gets done
• Sports broadcasting-talking about the game on TV
• Media-Writing about the Braves and their games
• Umpire-Calling the games
• Field upkeep-Keeping the field in top shape including grass and dirt and new bases

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

• I learned the different career paths the braves offer
• I learned that a lot of work goes into making sure fans and players are happy
• The Braves feel they need more TV’s than trash cans
• To move up within a sports team it is better if you know people
• What types of internships are possible?
• How time consuming are the different jobs associated with the braves?
• How much travel is involved?

Student Name               Erin Courington                                    

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011          

Georgia Tech Site Visit

Reinhardt University

Sport Studies Program

Site Visit Summary

Sport Site:                                 GA Tech Recreation Center                                                                    Date                 11/17/11           

Location:                       Atlanta                                     

Site Contact:                                                                

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

• Lobby-Get a membership at the desk and sitting area/information board
• Café-Spot to eat within the Rec Center
• Upper level-Basketball/badminton courts (6) running track around top/fitness equipment, hockey court, aerobics and athletic class teaching areas
• Bottom level-Workout area with all work out equipment, rock climbing wall, 3 pools where casual swimming and competitive swimming take place, dressing rooms/offices
• Places to check out equipment like balls and towels

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

• Sports facility director and assistant director
• Desk check in and check out
• Lifeguards
• Equipment watch
• Cleaning
• Marketing
• Working within the café
• Person in charge of checking out equipment

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

I learned that in a major sporting facility or recreation center there is a lot more work to do than I originally thought. Now I am interested in a job like this. There is a lot of maintenance and work that goes into maintaining this facility. With marketing being the career I would like to explore, I leaned that it is important for them to market because they have to maintain funding to run the various functions of the center. My main question would be do they look more to market for sponsorship funding or to get more members?

Student Name                           Erin Courington                         

Course                                      Sports Admin                                                                Semester          Fall 2011          

Vic Mitchell-Shorter University Women's Basketball Coach

Guest Speaker:             Vic Mitchell                                                                               Date                 9/29/11

Position or Title:                        Women’s Basketball Coach                                          

Organization:                 Shorter University                                             

Instructions:

• Submit word-processed form via email attachment to instructor within two days after the visit.

Speaker’s Main Points:

Ø  Take Initiative-Don’t wait for things to happen

Ø  Started as Reinhardt’s women’s coach/ men’s assistant coach

Ø  Forced to make a hard decision between Shorter and Reinhardt

Ø  Shorter in Fall of ‘90

Ø  4 year was better for him than 2 year

Ø  Today 685 Athletes at Shorter

Ø  21 Competitive Sports

Ø  Have a plan for your future-Future bosses like this

Ø  Study people who know what they’re doing

Ø  Promise less deliver more

Ø  Don’t get satisfied

Ø  Pick battles big enough to fight and small enough to win

Questions for Speaker:

Ø  How much work does being a graduate assistant involve?

Ø  What does Acrobatic Tumbling involve?

Ø  What area should I try and grad assist in for administrative career?

Ø  What would have happened if you stayed at Reinhardt?

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

ü  If you settle you’ll never get to the top

ü  You will be looked up to more if you make promises you can keep and do better on

ü  When forced to make a decision you have to evaluate everything properly

ü  Initiative can make a huge difference anywhere you work

ü  Don’t try and learn everything on your own; learn from the best

Student Name               Erin Courington                                    

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011          

Bill Popp-Reinhardt Athletic Director

Guest Speaker:             Bill Popp                                                                                  Date     9/27/11            

Position or Title:                        Athletic Director                                               

Organization:                 Reinhardt University                                          

Instructions:

• Submit word-processed form via email attachment to instructor within two days after the visit.

Speaker’s Main Points:

• Important to get masters
• 255+ athletes=most ever
• 82% of NAIA private schools
• Basketball national tourney started in NAIA
• Coach Popp created mission statement
• 10 to 1 ratio..to have 50 athletes need 500 contacts
• Eligibility
• Basketball 6 full scholarships
• Have to report what is spent per athlete
• Athletics has many committees

Questions for Speaker:

When will the football team start games

What other forms besides the funnel can a school go by

What careers are there that do not necessarily need a masters

Will scholarship money go up after football

Sport Leadership Information Learned from this speaker:

v  It takes will power to get to the top

v  Also many contacts

v  Sometimes once at the top you hire based on other things than how you got to the top

v  Volunteering can always help

Student Name               Erin Courington                                    

Course                          PED 350                                                                                   Semester          Fall 2011