Sport Management Club Officers

President: Chase Cates
Assisted by Brittany Noe
Vice President: Deseree
Treasurer: Kyle
Secretary: Kasey Nichols

Meeting 1:
Chase and Dr. Combs chose the new officers.
20 minutes long
Attendance: appx 20
Discussed fundraising opportunitites for the upcoming year and discussed how the club could raise money (t-shirts).

Final Week of Internship

On August 1st our Rep was in town for the next couple days and got us tickets to Wrigley Field to see the Cubs. The following day we attended an MLS game between Chivas USA and Chicago Fire. Here we set up 4 hours before the game and gave out catalogs, raffled off prizes as well as promoted some new promotions going on in the company. Once the game started we were able to break down and go up into the suite and watch the game with some of our bosses. The following day on the 3rd we went to Soldier Filed where the Chicago Bears play and set up for a game between Mexican team Chivas Guadalajara and one of the top clubs in the world from Spain, FC Barcelona. We set up our tent 6 hours before the game for an event with 40,000 fans in attendance. We promoted the same stuff as the day before except handed out over 2,000 catalogs and 1,500 promotions broschure's. Once the game started we broke down everything and put it in the van but didn't get into the game until almost half time. The following day we then drove back to the Detroit area where we went to another Michigan Rush camp and repeated the same ting as the following week. After the camp on the 5th we then drove from Detroit to East Rutherford, New Jersey for another FC Barcelona game at Giants Stadium against the New York Redbulls. Here we repeated the same process as in Chicago at Soldier Field and gave out another 2,000 catalogs and promotions broschure's. After 6 hours of being set up we broke down and were able to see the whole game from three rows back from the field. This would be our final event of the summer. On the 7th we drove back to Hillsborough, NC. On the 8th we unloaded our van, wrote up all of our event reports, did our expense report, went to lunch with the interns, and we were done.

Week 4 in MidWest

On the 25th we drove 12 hours from Lincoln Nebraska to Detroit, Michigan where we would stay the next two nights. We were scheduled to attend a tournament hosted by the University of Detroit-Mercy but could never get in contact with our contact for the event and we even went to the school to find out if anything was going on but found nothing. So we spent our time there checking out the decent areas of Detroit. This included driving across the river to Canada for lunch. After Canada we drove south to Indianapolis. We spent one night in Indianapolis to attend the Butler University camp on the 28th. We basically did the same thing that we had done at every other camp. Just played some games and aloud them to shoot at the sign. It was a successful event because it had good numbers and also one of the campers won a $200 gift card from shooting at the sign. After the camp we drove two hours east to Cincinnati. On the 29th we went to the University of Cincinnati camp where we did the same thing as the day before at Butler, but no one was fortunate to make it through the sign. Following camp we then drove back up to Detroit for the Michigan Rush camp. At the camp on the 30th we had to change some things up. Since the camp had about 200 kids we didn't have time to play a game with each individual team so we just let everyone shoot at our sign as there coaches sent them over. This camp in fact was our best camp of the summer because all of the kids were excited and energetic and we had 3 kids win $200 gift cards from making it through the sign. Immediately following the camp at 12 noon, we drove straight to Chicago for a Professional game between English team Everton FC and MLS team Chicago Fire. Hear we set up our tent 3 hours before the game and just gave out catalogs and posters and other promotional information. We didn't raffle anyhting off because we had ran out of raffle pads, plus the attendance was low for the game. Once the game started we broke down and went into watch the game. We would spend the next 5 nights in Chicago.

Week 3 in MidWest

We arrived in Topeka, Kansas on the 16th. The following day we attended the Prodigy Soccer Camp, which was a camp that a local club was putting on. We arrived around 10 a.m. and noticed that it was one of our smaller camps of about 20 to 30 kids. Basically we separated the camp into three different age groups and played individual games with them and gave out prizes. Then we let each camper shoot on a Eurosport sign which we had a hole cut out in it. If they could make it through the hole in one shoot they would win a $200 gift card. Unfortunately no one made it but everyone received catalogs and posters. The following day we did the same thing but with a different group of kids. Also the club director told a local TV news station that we where there so they sent out a reporter to interview us. I answered a few questions about our company and our relationship with Prodigy Soccer Club and that was that. After camp on the 18th we had to travel 5 hours north to Lincoln, Nebraska for the next week. On the 19th we went to the Torro Soccer Club tournament, which was an all girl club based out of Omaha that was hosting their tournament in Lincoln. The tournament was a big disappointment because it was only about 3 or 4 age groups and there weren't many games going on at once. This made it hard for us to get much traffic to the tent. Since we only received about 30 raffles we talked with our region rep and decided to not return the next day of the tournament. So from the 20th to the 24th we had off with no events scheduled in Nebraska. On the 24th we attended the Rush Festival for the Rush Soccer Club. Rush is a soccer club that has different satellites of clubs in states throughout the whole country including Hawaii. It's Eurosports largest team account with over 6,000 players. Basically the Rush Festival brought all of the clubs u-12 boys and girls teams to Lincoln for a camp/tournament experience. We set up our tent and gave players the chance o win some prizes as well as shoot on our sign to win a $200 gift card. it was a whole day event for us which was nice since we were in Nebraska for a whole week with only 2 events. The following day we would make a 12 hour drive to Detroit.

Week 2 MidWest

On the 10th we drove to the small town of Burlington, Iowa. The drive was only supposed to be about five hours but turned into six due to flood detours. When we finally got there at six we went to a Eurotech community camp which i smaller then the one at Lake Forrest. It was a camp of about 40 kids so we played some small games with each age group and gave out some posters and catalogs to everyone. Once the camp was over we had to drive north to Dubuque, Iowa for a tournament on Friday and Saturday. We were able to relax on Friday morning since the tournament didn't start till that night. Once we went to the complex we set up our tent and table and realized there were only a few games going on and no real traffic that would be help full for us so we left our stuff set up over night. We then spent most of the next day at the tournament and turned out to be a good event with a lot of interested people. We received a good amount of names thought the raffle, as well as gave out prizes every hour as well as catalogs and posters. Following the tournament we drove back to Chicago for the net 3 nights. Due to the floods in the Midwest many of the original events that were planned got canceled so there was a struggle to find new events. So since we didn't have any events scheduled we would use this time to do some Retail reports, which are reports we do of local soccer stores in some of the cities we travel to. We basically go to a soccer store and see what kind of products they offer, how much of it, quality, neatness, and etc. It's to analyze what local competition offers. Of all the reports i have done no one offers what we can. Also while in Chicago we used this time to do all of our event and expense reports. We went to FedEx Kinko's to make sure had everything printed off and filled out then mailed everything back to our rep. From Chicago we would then travel nine hours to Topeka, Kansas.

Switch to Midwest

On Wednesday July 2nd, i flew from LAX back to Raleigh. Once i was back i had to pack up a van on Thursday to head out to St. Louis and the Midwest the following day on July 4th. We drove 12 hours to St. Louis Just in time for the fireworks. That weekend we were at a 3 v. 3 soccer tournament which turned out to be one of better events of the summer. We got a lot of names through the raffle in the two days and gave out some good prizes. After the tournament on Sunday we then drove to Chicago where we stayed in the middle of downtown. On Monday we attended the Eurotech soccer camp in Lake Forrest which is just north of Chicago. We came in toward the end of the morning session and gave out some free stuff as well as gave some winners a chance at a $200 gift card, which no one won. Following the camp we headed to Milwaukee where we were supposed to have a camp the following day but got canceled. So instead while we were in Milwaukee we toured the Miller Brewing Co. and went to a Milwaukee Brewers game. The next two days we had off so we drove to Madison, the capitol of Wisconsin, and checked out the town before driving to Iowa on Thursday.

Week 4 California, final week in Cali

For the fourth week in California we were scheduled to go to the Bay Area of California for some events. First we went to the Sacramento area for a Cleats Soccer camp on Monday the 24th, and also to pick up another intern from the airport. After we picked up Martin from the airport we then drove to San Francisco where we had the next day off. We spent the day checking out some of the downtown area. The following day on the 26th we crossed over to Oakland for the Jack Hyde Soccer camp of about 70 kids. We had a fastest shot contest with each age group of the camp and gave out prizes to each, as well as leaving catalogs and posters for everyone. On the 27th we then went south to Atherton, CA which is between San Francisco and San Jose. There we went to the Atherton Lax Camp which was a very small and low talent camp but we were still successfull in reaching the kids. Now that the weekend was here we had our last few events. On Saturday the 28th we went back up to San Francisco for a WPSL game in the after noon and following that we drove back down to San Jose for a Major League Lacrosse game. At the lacrosse game we set up a tent inside the main entrance of the stadium and gave out free catalogs and stickers as well as raffled off prizes ever quarter. Also we did the same on field contest that we did at the LA lacrosse game previously. Basically we gave two kids three chances to catch a velcro ball on a pad attached to helmet. While the two kids didn't win we still gave them some free stuff. What we didn't know was this was our last event in California. We were scheduled for a women's professional game the following day but due too the fires in California it was canceled. So we drove back down to the LA area and hit up the beach the last few days we were there.