Week 4: June 6-9

This past week I have been continually working with the coaches to get the new athletics website for Cayuga Community College.  Some of the coaches are having an extremely hard time due to the lack of organization coaches from other teams.  I have been working with both the men’s and women’s soccer coach, the volleyball coach, and the men’s basketball coach.  I have noticed some coaches are having a harder time than others trying to come up with statistics and articles write ups.  This is not only Cayuga’s fault but the other colleges fault as well.  It has come to my attention that at the junior college level statistics and articles are not a top priority unlike other colleges. 

I also worked with my mentor the past few days trying to update the Mid-State Atlantic Conference Handbook.  The last time this was fully updated was the academic year of 2008-2009 so as you can see they are a bit behind with updating.  The most important part of updating this was the Conference Championships.  These items had not been updated since the academic year 2007-2008, so it was hard for me to look up the information because unlike other conferences there is no conference website.  I found that since Cayuga Community College does not have both baseball and softball, and just recently added volleyball it was harder to find that information because my supervisor was never given the emails stating what team was considered conference champions, who was player of the year, or who was coach of the year for those sports.  Even though he kept everything on file, he was never given the other information because those certain sports are not played here.

Now for the exciting news from the week, there is an excellent chance by the academic year 2012-2013 we will be seeing some drastic changes throughout the campus of Cayuga Community College, especially with the athletic department.  Athletics plans on adding brand new bleachers up in the gym for fans of both volleyball, and basketball games. 


Hopefully in the next week or two I will be working on contracts for other teams.  That really gets down to the nitty gritty of what being an athletic director is all about.  Other than budgeting which I have already worked on because my supervisor wanted a general idea of how much it would cost to start a team.  I realized that although the sport in general may be cheap to run, starting off any sport from scratch is no way shape or form cheap.   I also see how many different types of meetings my supervisor has on a day to day basis and he is always on the go.