Week 3: May 23-27

This past week I worked on several different projects.  My supervisor is working on a new athletics website for the college and had me working with him on the tutorial so we knew how to make the entire operation run.  The Athletic Department decided to go through a website designer just so there was some type of template.  This gives us an idea as to what we need to follow and in the meeting with both my supervisor who is the Athletic Director and the Assistant Athletic Director I was given the job of helping the coaches work on sports information, and eligibility.  Now that I am into my third week of working I am getting much more comfortable with the system my supervisor has me doing. 

I will be working with four of the 8 college coaches, both men’s and women’s soccer coaches, the men’s basketball coach, and the women’s volleyball coach.  These coaches are not only required to work on their sports but they are also assigned another sport to work with.  Each coach has about 30 student athletes, and each coach is required to make sure their assigned student athletes are eligible.  I will be working with these coaches very closely, not only getting an idea of what the Athletic Director of the college does but the coaches as well. 

Last week I also worked on updating the information for the Mid-State Atlantic Conference (MSAC) website.  This gives the conference the most up to date information about new coaches, new athletic administrators.  This was an easy task because it was all on the internet through a website.  All I had to do was input the coaches email addresses, phone numbers, and extensions to their phones.

Finally I learned something new from the women's basketball coach that was shocking to me.  An incident occurred between a student athlete and another community college.  The student athlete contacted the community college on a Tuesday and went for a visit and tour of the campus on a Wednesday.  This violates an NJCAA rule stating that if a player from a different college makes contact with a coach from a different college, there is to be no contact between the coach and the player for 10 days.  I never knew of such a rule before, and since I hope to pursue coaching one day, this is one rule I will never forget.