Shayleen Wood |
This meeting took a little longer because we had to discuss what we were going to do during the men's halftime and the women's halftime. He had two groups of students come in with their ideas from class. We did not get their name. One group came up with the lay up, free throw and three pointer and it was a race. The first person to make all three won a gift card to the bookstore. The other group came up with a pizza eating contest and the winner of that won a gift card to the bookstore as well. We talked about what our responsibilities was and that consisted of picking people from the crowd to come compete and our other job was to rebound the basketball for the players and for the pizza contest we had to carry tables out onto the floor along with a mat underneath just in case they make a mess. We had to make little changes here and there so help make the games go smoother but they did a pretty good job at coming up with halftime games to keep the fans entertained while the teams we in the locker rooms.
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On this day, we still held the same responsibilities as the last two games. Along with being introduced to the VIP where we were responsible for making sure they had everything they needed. This is when we realized we were going to slowly move up the ladder to do more tasks. Tiffin Men lost 62-48. Tiffin Women won 68-64.
I had a meeting with Darby to find out if we will be doing more things other than the same thing over and over again. He promised me we would and that I just need to have patience with it just being the beginning of the internship. He then asked me what I thought about the first couple games. I told him that it was pretty boring the first couple games that I hope it would pick up more. He also asked me my thoughts about what we could do during half time of the two games. I told him that at my High School, we gave students a chance to shoot a three pointer for a dollar and if you made the three pointer you would get two dollars back but if you missed it then you would not get it back and that money would be given to the boosters to help pay for athletics at the school or put money toward something for the school. He said that is something we could consider and be a good way to raise money for Tiffin.
I called Jordan the same day and talked to him about possibilities on half time shows or games. He really did not have to much input on this but we did talk about what time we needed to be there for the game because we had to set up a table with shirts to try and sell some in memory of.... shirts. Today was pretty much the same thing as the first game we interned. We held a rope to make sure fans were not able to walk onto the floor. Darby kept telling us were doing a great job and that it was only to get better. All I was thinking was, I sure hope so. We were responsible for crowd control this day making sure the specific rows to keep the floor dry and clean. We did a little bit of crowd control and had to ask people to move from the first bench to the next bench for the safety of our players and referees. Tiffin men won 66-60. Tiffin Women lost 91-63.
Double Header: The first day was not what I was expecting. I was handed the GLIAC Rule book, and a list of things that need to be done before the game and a list of things of what to do after the game. Although we were not in charge of the clean up of everything, the information was nice to know. This is when we were shown where everything was located, such as, extras chairs and the other equipment. Throughout the game, we had to hold a rope from one base line to another base line to make sure fans did not walk onto the gym floor with their wet shoes or go out and randomly start shooting a basketball. We would hold it before the game, half time and in between games. The players complained during half time because they could not use the space that they usually used to do their drills. We also had to do crowd control and makes sure people were not sitting in the front row or being disrespectful to our players, other fans, and referees. On this day, Tiffin played Lake Erie College. Men's basketball lost 76-54. Women's basketball won 74-64.
Since our last meeting was January second, we met again a couple days before the first games. He straight up told me how the first day was going to go. Basically, we would go early and help him set up for men's and women's basketball games. The set up consist of getting tables ready for ticket booth, along with getting the concession stand ready, and sweep up the gym floor before the players would enter the court. He also told us throughout the game we would do crowd control and make sure nobody got out of hand and that we would be asked to help the golfers out if they needed it or even a person out of the crowd. He then told us during halftime we would hold a rope so people would not walk and track salt all over the gym floor. After our meeting, I stuck around to kind of "job shadow" Darby to see what he does within the office and if it was confidential, I would just step out. I also met his assistant and I met the women's golf coach, Brittney.
I met with Darby this day so we could officially meet. We talked about the things that I will be doing throughout my internship along with who I will be doing my interning with. We met for about 2 hours just going over things. I have also met with Darby other times as well before basketball games, to go over more information about that specific game. We also met another time to talk about what else I could do to gain more hours for my internship. I would always meet with Jordan to talk about what we will be doing and how we can divide the work up. Also, if we could not get a hold of Darby we would just meet together and talk about what Darby would want us to do.
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