Week 5: June 20-23

A lot has been going on in the Cayuga Community College Athletics Department, with the new contract between Presto Sports and Cayuga Community College big changes will be made.  As a department we are launching a new athletics website.  This is set up by the AD, 4 other coaches and me.  As the intern I am responsible for all of the coaches getting their teams all straightened out and the other team they were assigned.  It is my responsibility to make sure everything is spelled correctly in articles, all the dates and times for scheduled contests are correct.  I am considered the first line of defense when it comes to spelling and everything being correct.  Just like any new program we have been facing some issues but have since been resolved.  This is not easy for any of us because it really is all about figuring things; we have not had someone come in to help us.

Some of the problems we have faced are the athletic/academic year.  We are a department are starting backwards from last year’s records including press releases, game rosters, pictures, and bios.  This is a nice concept because last year hardly any of the coaches wrote up game recaps simply because some of the games were not worth writing up.  Once this website is up and running it will be a huge attribute to the Athletics Department.  This could be a successful recruiting tool and when potential athletes are looking at Cayuga Community College they can read about their coach, and look up the previous year of how their team did. 

I have also been putting together the college’s annual high school summer league paperwork.  This is something that has a constant upkeep because players are always signing up or teams are consistently coming in.  This is another great way to get the Cayuga community involved by offering the college’s gym to those local high schools.  This also shows the community that the college wants to be involved.  I will soon be working on contracts between the schools this coming season.  Instead of sending contracts out before the beginning of each season, my mentor sends out all of the contracts to each school for each sport at once.  This method seems to be better because the contracts get done all at once.