GA Dome

Sport Site:  GA Dome      Date 11/19/11

Location:  Atlanta, GA  

Site Contact:  Tour Guide  

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) 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.
- Locker Rooms – This is where all of the players will meet before, during and after games.
- Field – The arena can hold 80,000 fans and the field can be used for many different purposes such as football, concerts or even wrestling.
- Media Area – This is where all of the media sit for the football games.
- Verizon Suite - Verizon invested a large about of money into this suite, employees will work on game days trying to promote their phones to all of the fans.
- Suites – Anybody can purchase these tickets and buy deals from 3-7years
- Super Suite - This is a suite where any person can buy just one luxury seat within this big suite, but the time period on this is the same as the normal suites.
- Helmet Wall – Every high school football team in GA has a helmet up on this wall.

Career Possibilities: What are potential career paths associated with this sports site? Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.
The tour guide did not mention any career possibilities to us but looking at the size of the arena they look endless. There will be jobs such as Marketing, Promotions, Bar staff, Ticket office etc


What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit? What questions arose from this visit?
There was nothing incredibly significant that I learnt but there was a few things I found interesting such as the roof of the stadium how it keeps a lot of light in saving them a fortune in electricity and also how strong it is. I also enjoyed learning about a few of the players because I don’t know much about the falcons.

GA Tech Recreational Centre

Sport Site: GeorgiaTech Recreational Centre Date 11/19/11



Location: Atlanta, GA



Site Contact:  (Tour Giude)



Site Facilities: Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.
- Work out area – All Georgia Tech students can access this and alumni can also keep coming back for a very small fee.

- Climbing Wall - This is open every day at certain hours and students can learn how to climb after a brief introduction and then they can be left to do their own thing.
- Basketball Gyms – There are 6 Basketball courts that all members can use at any time.
- Running Track – The track is 1/6^th of a mile and raps around the top of the basketball courts.
- Competition Pool – The swimming teams use this a lot for diving and for races. The US swim team are also going to use it just before the Olympics.
- Leisure Pool – In this pool you can swim lengths, a slide, and lazy river which can be used by anyone at most times of the day
- Multi Purpose Area’s – Different things can be done in these areas such as soccer, spin class, aerobics etc





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



There are a few different careers you can choose from the recreational Centre whether it is working in customer services, Lifeguard, Personal Trainer or even working in the business offices doing such things as marketing. I was very interested at seeing the size of the center and it looked like a great place to work no matter what job you had there.



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

I would say the most significant things I learnt on this visit was the vast amount of internships they had available and it really caught my interest. As I said above it would be a great place to work no matter what job you had and the fact they also had marketing opportunities it gained my interest even more.

Turner Field Site Summary

Sport Site:                    Turner Field (Atlanta Braves)                                          Date     11/3/11

Location:                                  Atlanta, GA                  

Site Contact:                             Dave (Tour Giude)        

 

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

-       Front of stadium – We had a look round all of the statues of ex-players including such greats like Hank Aaron.

-       Museum – The museum was filled with memorabilia such including part of the train they used to travel in showing us how small the beds and seating areas were and there was also an old dugout that we could sit in.

-       Walked around the top of the stadium – We got to view the old Fulton County Stadium and where the Olympic stadium was. I was impressed with the diagram on the car park floor showing the outline of the old field.

-       Suites – We got to look in the different types of suits in the stadium and got to sit down and experience the view from these high priced seats.

-       Media Room – We had a first-hand look at where the media come before the game and we get to look at their routine where they walk in and see the starting line-ups and then take their place in the box.

-       Delta 365 – Delta 365 is a private members lounge in which anyone can buy a membership to, you can go in there and get some drinks and snacks and also watch the game from your table. The tour guide recommended buying the $1 tickets and a membership in there.

-       Locker Room – In the locker room we got to see their training room that was next door and the size of their locker room. Baseballers are apparently suspicious about having their baseball bat leaning against someone else’s on the team so they have made the locker room round so this never has to happen.

-       Dug Outs – Going to the dug outs were very cool and getting to stand where the entire team stands during the game was a good experience.

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

At the end of the tour we were told that they love to hire interns for not just the Atlanta Braves but also the Braves in Rome and Gwinnett. When she was telling us her story she also explained how she used to be an intern and when a position opened up she was the first person they came to as she had a lot of experience in the field already so it would be a great opportunity for us to get one foot in the door. There are such internship placements as, working with the media, working in PR (public relations), working in the museum or even working at the ticket desks.

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

I would say the most significant things I learnt was the ways that the braves marketed all over the stadium. There were signs for coke everywhere and they also have a level that different companies can use just to market their company during the braves games. At the time of the tour the level was promoting casinos in different states but they made it look like there was a casino in the stadium in order to attract people inside. Another thing I enjoyed learning was just the basic history of the braves, I have never been very in to watching baseball but learning some history about them and learning about previous stars for the team like Hank Aaron it made me want to take time and support them for real.

Speaker 2: Vic Mitchell

Coach Mitchell started off as a computer science major at the University of GA although Mr Mitchell felt like he wanted to do something else. Which is why he went to the basketball coach during this time and volunteered his services as a coach for the summer camps at the school. He then got to travel all the way to the final four with them and said it was one of the best experiences of his life getting there. This was all due to him attending Summer camps.

Vic had a job ready for him at a middle school in Cobb county in 986 which he turned down to in order to have a interview for the womens head basketball coach at Reinhardt College. Vic got the job and after 4 years at the school he decided to take the job at Shorter Uni. This is mainly because of recruiting and the fact it was a four year school. RC at the time was only two year. Coach Mitchell has been at shorter he has taken over several roles, and only until the last couple of years has he been able to concentrate on basketball again. Golf, cross country, and AD were some of the other roles he undertook whilst at shorter.

Coach Mitchell ended on one life lesson and that was ' the worst thing you can do for someone is something they can do for themselves' . This was a very wise statement I thought an I really enjoyed coach mitchells speech and can say I took something from it.

Coach Popp Visit

In my sports admin class we have several guest speakers come to visit us with the most recent being our head athletic director, Coach Bill Popp. He came in to talk about his life through college and what he done afterwords to get to where he is now.

Coach Popp graduated from KSU in 1992 with a degree in sports management. Like our degrees at Reinhardt he also had to complete an internship. Coach Popp completed his internship at Oglethorpe University as an assistant coach for the baseball team. One thing lead to another and he was offered the head coach position and also asked to look after some other duties around the campus.He remained there for 12 years. The position for the Reinhardt head coach opened up and he applied for it and got the position on the circumstance that he would take over for the current Head Athletic Director. After 6months of being the head baseball coach he resigned to become the first full time AD at Reinhardt due to the coming of football at the school.

Coach Popp has many different duties as a Head AD, these duties include recruiting, retaining athletes and most importantly works on accounts making sure each coach has an allocated budget that they can use for Uniforms, Training GEar and Scholarship dollars for players. Finally, his main job is also to help start fundraising programmes so that there is always money in the Reinhardt Athletics Budget.

I loved hearing what Coach Popp had to say about his career since College and it has given me a new belief in that there are many possibilities on where you will end up despite the degree you obtain or the career you may go for straight away.

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