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Duration: August 2020 - Present

Positions Held: Women's Basketball SID, Swimming Sports Contact, Volleyball Sports Contact

Recaps Wrote: 38 total featured writings 

Awards: 2019-20 Intern of the Year 

Click on the buttons below to view the media guide I completed along with one of the game notes, one post-game recap, and one pre-game recap. 

Swim and Dive 

Soccer 

My internship with UNI athletics submerged me into the world of college sports. I had regular office hours and during those hours I was tasked to create media guides and update game notes on InDesign. Along with InDesign I occasionally used photoshop to edit photos. Being the Women's Basketball SID allowed me to meet various people on game days and create valuable connections. Coming up in the 2021-22 school year, I will transition from women's basketball to Swimming and Tennis.

The media guide is a 90-page document that highlights the history of the team, each player themselves, the coaches, stats and records and awards won each season. The media guide is completed at the beginning of each season. 

Game Notes are completed after each game. If you look on the website, you can find links to the game notes for each game that was played. Game notes are about 30-35 pages and there was a total of 30 games played making for 30 game notes. 

Each game needs a recap and a pre-game release so I was responsible for writing most of the post-game recaps and completed 36 of those while I wrote two pre-game releases. These pre-game releases are the shorter written version of the game notes with quick facts people need to know and the post-game recaps show everything that happened during the game in quick synopses. 

Game Day 

Play-by-Play

Women's Basketball 

- Arrive 3-4 hours early to set up the press conference

- Print/handout game notes to all media personnel

- Launch StatCrew for both live and in-game stats

- Use Sprout Social to manage in-game social media updates

- Conduct the press conference (grab players, connect with media personnel and tear down the press conference once it's finished.) 

- Write and upload the game recap to the website 

- Upload a photo album to the website if applicable

- Update the online schedule with the outcome of the game

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