-Garrett Love is running for WSGA president, Caley Onek is his running partner. He plays basketball for Washburn as well. -He is involved in numerous activities and clubs around campus. -Traveling and keeping up with all of his activities is sometimes tough, but he manages to stay completely involved in each thing that he does. -Believes that his platform is a very good one and thinks the students need to benefit the most from the proposed changes. -Running against Lawrence-Hockman
-Nicole Perkuhn is involed in the campaign, helps with promotion side of the campaign. -Fully supports Love's ideas and platforms. -Voting is on March 4,5,6th
Gene Cassell: -Has been working as the Sports Information Director for 10 years at Washburn, a graduate of Northwest Missouri State. -Makes all of the athleic media guides as well as taking pictures and managing wusports.com -Have won 51(ish) awards, and 19-20 for best media guides which take around a month of extensive work to finish. -Football is that hardest sport to cover because of all of the players, geting their profiles and stats together. -Takes all the team pictures -Involved with the coaches to find out the recruiting information for the coming years -Doesn't cover cheerleading, Janet does -Lincoln University will join the MIAA in 2009, they were a part of the heartland conference and didn't do well in most sports. -Takes a lot of pride in his work and thats how they continue to be nationally recognized -Cassell's boss is AD Loren Ferre -Since he has taken over they have found a lot more records and updated all the career records and stats -Part of the Hall of Fame Committee but doesn't really throw events outside of sports -Says there is not enough hours in the day to get everything done -Hired a new assistant SID (really excited!)
Marilynn Koelliker and Jamie Shehi: -Have a new program called Student-Athlete Support Services, started around two years ago. -Run by Jamie Shehi but Koelliker also cousels student athletes -Hasn't been used as much as they would like because there is a stigma that surrounds going to a counselor, people think it makes you crazy to go to a couselor but 90% of visit are 1 or 2 times and are not major issues
Summer Harris: -the great clips promotion attracted a lot of fans to the last home game but it didn't really work for all th other games -they would add 25 dollars every game someone wasn't there (men and women games) the jackpot got up to 700 dollars -angie jameson won the money and she is in pep band, it wasn't rigged!!! -great clips donated all of the money, in cash -with the economy down right now, the attendence at games is down this season -all across the MIAA the attendence is down, washburn still has the most fans though -the money from the tickets goes into a general fund for the university -dr. farley is very supportive of the athletic department, very involved -the pink out game was the second highest attendence of the season, after the emporia game where they gave away the money -no way to tell how many people are at mens and how many at womens, but more people may come to see the women
Angie Jamison: -junior, nursing student -is in marching band, but is just a substitute for pep band -won the $700 at half time -is going to spend the money on three trips she has planned for this summer including a wedding and a trip to disney world -will basically pay for the trip to disney -"I was in shock because right before he said it, I was thinking say my name, say my name. And when he did, I was frozen. Someone had to tap me on the shoulder and tell me that was me." -got the money after the game was over in cash (7 one-hundred dollar bills), security reasons -known to be lucky: won a tv when she was three and would have won $5,000 on the lotto if her dad listened to her -her parents were surprised and excited for her -still would have gone to the game, she has friends that attend Emporia
Danielle Hodge: -junior education major -did not know about the promotion until the day of the game, didn't hear about it at all -heard because people were talking about it -didn't go to the game, had class -"I wish I had some way of knowing about the event, I would have tried to get to more games."
Courtney Wallman: -freshman physical therapy major -went to all of the games they gave the money away -knew about the promotion through the athletic department -wished that the money could have been split up somehow, like half given away at girls game and half at the guys game -"I think the promotion was a good idea but it needed to be advertised more so more students would have come to the earlier games."
Carly DeDonder: -is in her 2nd year of coaching at WU, has been high school coach and she cheered at Emporia -has a full time job as a special education teacher at Highland Park -the cheer squad cheers at two sports: football and both basketball teams -has 2-3 practices a week depending on the game schedule -there are no height and weight requirements like there is a the DI level -about 25 people tryout and the number who make it is varied, guys can participate but there hasn't been any since she has been the coach -cheerleaders have to know the basic rules of the sport, have to pay attention to what is happening in the game, but it is not a requirement to tryout, it can be taught -they do not participate in any competitions because there is not enough people on the squad, teams who usually go to the competitions have 20 or more girls on the team, they are hoping to build up to that someday -going through a rebuilding process, have three returning girls on the squad who are all sophmores -have a limited budget, but give the girls small scholarships -hard to do a lot of things without a large budget -according the NCAA rules the squad cannot travel unless it's a tournament or postseason during basketball, can travel anywhere for football -new girls a lot because they don't receive much scholarship and they are having to pay for their own school, while working a cheering, sometimes hard to balance -the cheerleaders have to meet the requirements academically that the athletes at WU have to meet, must be enrolled in 12 hours, and have a 2.0 GPA -"I tell my team that they are athletes because they have to do things that are physically demading everyday and they have to have some athletic ability in order to perform our stunts." -has never had to deal with eating disorders, she likes her girls to be healthy and make sure they know that eating is good. She would rather have healthy girls who are normal sized, than stick thin girls who don't eat -they are sponsored by the Alumni -attend Alumni events sometimes, things around the community and do a cheer clinic in unison with the football clinic for little kids -tyrouts are April 18, 19 from 9am-3pm -they are a family who have family problems but everything they do has to be together. All have to be perfectly matching with their hair done the same and no jewelry. -each girl is a piece of the puzzle
Tim Collins: -the dodge ball tournament was a succes, raising $500 -there was a positive mix of students and student-athletes -came up with the idea by having all the girls brainstorm, Markie Gallagher came up with the idea -there were 9 teams in dodge ball tournament -got raffle donations from people around town just by going in and asking for them -Jordan Shefte sang the National Anthem and it was....interesting (quite hilarious) -receice only 7 scholarships with over 20 girls on the team -travel was very expensive last season, had to give up other things -money going to be used for the spring season -don't have a goal to reach, just raise all the money they can -the soccer team also does community service, one is a camp for disabilities -Carrie got the internship in DC!
write up some more generic information about the athletic department in general. List the coaches, assistants, etc. How much money is in the athletics budget? How much does each sport cost? See the list of questions for beat report.
Community Service Competition: -between all the athletic teams -haing some trouble with participation or people just not logging their hours -can choose any community service they want and the whole team doesn't HAVE to be there, part of the logging -came from Lisa Fahey's senior leadership project for the leadership program
Garrett Love: -they wanting to do is look at things these students are doing as part of being student-athletes... Being a captain, different leadership roles, being SAAC rep, helping with different camps with their coaches, different things looked at on a case by case basis. -they want to make this requirement of the WTE easier to fulfill but still a very meaningful experience. -there would be a class that will hopefully be in place by the spring Leadership in Sport would parrallel the WTE, it will help give the student athlete a proactive mindfulness of what they're doing for their WTE -before that class comes into play, there is already LE100 and LE200 which already can be taken with the same purpose -there is currently a couple football players in the "pilot program" of this, something that they are trying to get together -"I think would be a good step for WTE as collegiate athletics oftentimes is a very transformational experience" - Love, -"WSGA is in a constant effort of helping make the WTE more user-friendly to students. That is a concern and issue that we want to help address. This is one of many steps we would like to take in the direction of a more user-friendly WTE." - Love -Love has played basketball at WU for three years and has first hand experience regarding what it takes to be a student-athlete. - working with Jeff Mott, Director of Leadership could be helpful too he is helping with the class building process.
Loren Ferre: -Jeff Mott and Garrett Love are two people that you may want to talk to -he thinks that it is a great idea because it is a great experience completeing the WTE and they have had several meetings regarding the success this could bring -different things that would count towards the athletic WTE are SAAc, community service with their teams, the class on leadership and there are probably going to be other requirements to finish it -there is a lot of optimism surrounding this, he thinks it will be availible soon enough, probably around spring of 2010 -there is a time-commitment that athletes must put in with their team, there is no option of skipping things to make more time for the WTE so if they can work on it while competeing it will make their experience at Washburn a better one -athletes don't HAVE to do this one, they can choose another one, but this is availible to student-athletes who may feel too busy to do a different WTE -Garrett's perspective as a student-athlete is a great tool to have in creating this WTE
Nicole Perkuhn: -it is very hard to find time to complete the WTE because we are traveling a lot on the weekends and we have practices during the week -free time is usually dedicated to homework and projects assigned for classes. -this sounds like a great idea because it would make my athletic experience just that much better -i would hope it contains some community service activity because i feel as though that is a very important aspect of the WTE that is already in place -I was stuck and not sure what I was going to do, running out of time.
Loren Ferre: -there have been meetings with dr. farley and budget vuts have been made for the next school year -the athletic department has decided to only let those cute effect the administrative side and not the individual teams -there have been administrative positions that are frozen after people left them, don't know if or when they will reopen -don't want to cut anything that will directly ompact the student-athletes, we do everything we do for them -the NCAA is thinking about cutting the number of competitions in each division to cut down the cost of travel and such -competitions being cut at just WU isn't a possibility bc we don't want out teams have a lower chance at making the post season, would only do it if the MIAA or NCAA did -they are working harder to fundraise money, Kerry is the full timer for that job, doing a good job getting new people and keeping old sponsors -have to find a way to cover travel and recruiting, hard to just stop travleing unlesss you cut the competition, looking into more ways for the department to be more efficient
Summer Harris: -in charge of sports marketing at WU -has to find sponsors, talk to them, get them do sponsor one or more sports -says some sponsors are dropping out, some are staying and giving the same amount, some sponsors are giving more money, and there are some new sponsors that are sponsoring now continuing into next season -still the number one ticket sales in the MIAA, but all the sales are lower across the MIAA compared to previous years -money from the tickets goes to general funds for the university -Dr. Farley is really supportive of athletics here on campus -trying different promotions to get more people in the door, such as the pink out game and the cash promotion -there aren't much more fans at the men's bball games compared to the women, but it is hard to tell because you only have to buy one ticket to see both games
Summer Harris: -there were 60 special olympics athletes signed up, 48 came and there was about 50 Washburn athletes there as well -did check in then ate pizza, played the sports, and did the awards presentation -jordan shefte sang karaoke to welcome the athlets into the event with a redition of Picture to Burn by Taylor Swift (video availible) -the event is to allow special olypics athletes to get involved and be able to interact with student-athletes at washburn -lauren lawless, president of SAAC, was most responsible for putting the even on -the two DJs donated their time to the event and volunteered -there were more bowlers last year but at this event there was more interaction between the athletes -10 different sports to play (football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, dancing...etc.) -able to have more prizes to give away than last year because the amount it costs to rent out a bowling alley is where most of the money went last year -hope to do one of the events next year again
Chris Herron: -has been coaching at WU for 7 seasons -played baseball in college -recruits players for their talent but also makes sure that they are going to mesh well with his teams personality -recruiting is more than just watching a player once a deciding the sign them -need to research the player, watch them many times, ask around about the player -there are a lot of different rules regarding recruiting, sometimes hard to keep up with all of them -there has been issue on what the rules are surround text messaging since it became so popular -athletic director helps us make sure we are doing everything within the guildlines -i am an agressive coach when it comes to recruiting, I try to find players who are as good and will push my current players, or players who i think are better than the players I already have -I want to win a national championship and that is what I think about when I am recruiting -can be a tough situation because you already love all the players you have, they are like family, but to an extent it is a business, and the business will only run smoothly if you continue to win
I am a senior at Washburn University and I am working toward a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media with an emphasis in Writing and Publishing, Electronic Media, and Public Relations. I am also working toward a minor in Business. I am from Fort Collins, Colo. But I am currently living in Topeka, Kan.
I have gained great experience from reporting for WUCT News, our on-campus news show, as well as working as the Sports Editor for the student paper, the Washburn Review. I have also produced segments for @Washburn, a student-created entertainment news show. I completed an internship at the Fort Collins Soccer Club, a nonprofit youth sports organization. There I designed advertisements, logos and tournaments programs for them, as well as gained valuable customer service experience.
I was a member of the Washburn women’s volleyball team, a starter all four years and a two-time All American. I am also a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society.
After graduation, I hope to be hired in the mass media field. My career goal is to work for a professional sports team’s media department.
You need to post here each week. Don't miss deadlines.
ReplyDeleteWEEK ONE Research:
ReplyDeleteGarret Love and Nicole Perkuhn:
-Garrett Love is running for WSGA president, Caley Onek is his running partner. He plays basketball for Washburn as well.
-He is involved in numerous activities and clubs around campus.
-Traveling and keeping up with all of his activities is sometimes tough, but he manages to stay completely involved in each thing that he does.
-Believes that his platform is a very good one and thinks the students need to benefit the most from the proposed changes.
-Running against Lawrence-Hockman
-Nicole Perkuhn is involed in the campaign, helps with promotion side of the campaign.
-Fully supports Love's ideas and platforms.
-Voting is on March 4,5,6th
Research WEEK TWO:
ReplyDeleteGene Cassell:
-Has been working as the Sports Information Director for 10 years at Washburn, a graduate of Northwest Missouri State.
-Makes all of the athleic media guides as well as taking pictures and managing wusports.com
-Have won 51(ish) awards, and 19-20 for best media guides which take around a month of extensive work to finish.
-Football is that hardest sport to cover because of all of the players, geting their profiles and stats together.
-Takes all the team pictures
-Involved with the coaches to find out the recruiting information for the coming years
-Doesn't cover cheerleading, Janet does
-Lincoln University will join the MIAA in 2009, they were a part of the heartland conference and didn't do well in most sports.
-Takes a lot of pride in his work and thats how they continue to be nationally recognized
-Cassell's boss is AD Loren Ferre
-Since he has taken over they have found a lot more records and updated all the career records and stats
-Part of the Hall of Fame Committee but doesn't really throw events outside of sports
-Says there is not enough hours in the day to get everything done
-Hired a new assistant SID (really excited!)
Marilynn Koelliker and Jamie Shehi:
-Have a new program called Student-Athlete Support Services, started around two years ago.
-Run by Jamie Shehi but Koelliker also cousels student athletes
-Hasn't been used as much as they would like because there is a stigma that surrounds going to a counselor, people think it makes you crazy to go to a couselor but 90% of visit are 1 or 2 times and are not major issues
WEEK THREE Research:
ReplyDeleteSummer Harris:
-the great clips promotion attracted a lot of fans to the last home game but it didn't really work for all th other games
-they would add 25 dollars every game someone wasn't there (men and women games) the jackpot got up to 700 dollars
-angie jameson won the money and she is in pep band, it wasn't rigged!!!
-great clips donated all of the money, in cash
-with the economy down right now, the attendence at games is down this season
-all across the MIAA the attendence is down, washburn still has the most fans though
-the money from the tickets goes into a general fund for the university
-dr. farley is very supportive of the athletic department, very involved
-the pink out game was the second highest attendence of the season, after the emporia game where they gave away the money
-no way to tell how many people are at mens and how many at womens, but more people may come to see the women
what does it mean that Gene does not "throw events outside of sports?"
ReplyDeleteGood list. More please.
Research WEEK FOUR:
ReplyDeleteAngie Jamison:
-junior, nursing student
-is in marching band, but is just a substitute for pep band
-won the $700 at half time
-is going to spend the money on three trips she has planned for this summer including a wedding and a trip to disney world
-will basically pay for the trip to disney
-"I was in shock because right before he said it, I was thinking say my name, say my name. And when he did, I was frozen. Someone had to tap me on the shoulder and tell me that was me."
-got the money after the game was over in cash (7 one-hundred dollar bills), security reasons
-known to be lucky: won a tv when she was three and would have won $5,000 on the lotto if her dad listened to her
-her parents were surprised and excited for her
-still would have gone to the game, she has friends that attend Emporia
Danielle Hodge:
-junior education major
-did not know about the promotion until the day of the game, didn't hear about it at all
-heard because people were talking about it
-didn't go to the game, had class
-"I wish I had some way of knowing about the event, I would have tried to get to more games."
Courtney Wallman:
-freshman physical therapy major
-went to all of the games they gave the money away
-knew about the promotion through the athletic department
-wished that the money could have been split up somehow, like half given away at girls game and half at the guys game
-"I think the promotion was a good idea but it needed to be advertised more so more students would have come to the earlier games."
Research WEEK FOUR (continued):
ReplyDeleteCarly DeDonder:
-is in her 2nd year of coaching at WU, has been high school coach and she cheered at Emporia
-has a full time job as a special education teacher at Highland Park
-the cheer squad cheers at two sports: football and both basketball teams
-has 2-3 practices a week depending on the game schedule
-there are no height and weight requirements like there is a the DI level
-about 25 people tryout and the number who make it is varied, guys can participate but there hasn't been any since she has been the coach
-cheerleaders have to know the basic rules of the sport, have to pay attention to what is happening in the game, but it is not a requirement to tryout, it can be taught
-they do not participate in any competitions because there is not enough people on the squad, teams who usually go to the competitions have 20 or more girls on the team, they are hoping to build up to that someday
-going through a rebuilding process, have three returning girls on the squad who are all sophmores
-have a limited budget, but give the girls small scholarships
-hard to do a lot of things without a large budget
-according the NCAA rules the squad cannot travel unless it's a tournament or postseason during basketball, can travel anywhere for football
-new girls a lot because they don't receive much scholarship and they are having to pay for their own school, while working a cheering, sometimes hard to balance
-the cheerleaders have to meet the requirements academically that the athletes at WU have to meet, must be enrolled in 12 hours, and have a 2.0 GPA
-"I tell my team that they are athletes because they have to do things that are physically demading everyday and they have to have some athletic ability in order to perform our stunts."
-has never had to deal with eating disorders, she likes her girls to be healthy and make sure they know that eating is good. She would rather have healthy girls who are normal sized, than stick thin girls who don't eat
-they are sponsored by the Alumni
-attend Alumni events sometimes, things around the community and do a cheer clinic in unison with the football clinic for little kids
-tyrouts are April 18, 19 from 9am-3pm
-they are a family who have family problems but everything they do has to be together. All have to be perfectly matching with their hair done the same and no jewelry.
-each girl is a piece of the puzzle
WEKK FIVE Research:
ReplyDeleteTim Collins:
-the dodge ball tournament was a succes, raising $500
-there was a positive mix of students and student-athletes
-came up with the idea by having all the girls brainstorm, Markie Gallagher came up with the idea
-there were 9 teams in dodge ball tournament
-got raffle donations from people around town just by going in and asking for them
-Jordan Shefte sang the National Anthem and it was....interesting (quite hilarious)
-receice only 7 scholarships with over 20 girls on the team
-travel was very expensive last season, had to give up other things
-money going to be used for the spring season
-don't have a goal to reach, just raise all the money they can
-the soccer team also does community service, one is a camp for disabilities
-Carrie got the internship in DC!
write up some more generic information about the athletic department in general. List the coaches, assistants, etc. How much money is in the athletics budget? How much does each sport cost?
ReplyDeleteSee the list of questions for beat report.
Research WEEK SIX:
ReplyDeleteCommunity Service Competition:
-between all the athletic teams
-haing some trouble with participation or people just not logging their hours
-can choose any community service they want and the whole team doesn't HAVE to be there, part of the logging
-came from Lisa Fahey's senior leadership project for the leadership program
Generic information coming soon!
Research WEEK SEVEN:
ReplyDeleteGarrett Love:
-they wanting to do is look at things these students are doing as part of being student-athletes... Being a captain, different leadership roles, being SAAC rep, helping with different camps with their coaches, different things looked at on a case by case basis.
-they want to make this requirement of the WTE easier to fulfill but still a very meaningful experience.
-there would be a class that will hopefully be in place by the spring Leadership in Sport would parrallel the WTE, it will help give the student athlete a proactive mindfulness of what they're doing for their WTE
-before that class comes into play, there is already LE100 and LE200 which already can be taken with the same purpose
-there is currently a couple football players in the "pilot program" of this, something that they are trying to get together
-"I think would be a good step for WTE as collegiate athletics oftentimes is a very transformational experience" - Love,
-"WSGA is in a constant effort of helping make the WTE more user-friendly to students. That is a concern and issue that we want to help address. This is one of many steps we would like to take in the direction of a more user-friendly WTE." - Love
-Love has played basketball at WU for three years and has first hand experience regarding what it takes to be a student-athlete.
- working with Jeff Mott, Director of Leadership could be helpful too he is helping with the class building process.
Loren Ferre:
-Jeff Mott and Garrett Love are two people that you may want to talk to
-he thinks that it is a great idea because it is a great experience completeing the WTE and they have had several meetings regarding the success this could bring
-different things that would count towards the athletic WTE are SAAc, community service with their teams, the class on leadership and there are probably going to be other requirements to finish it
-there is a lot of optimism surrounding this, he thinks it will be availible soon enough, probably around spring of 2010
-there is a time-commitment that athletes must put in with their team, there is no option of skipping things to make more time for the WTE so if they can work on it while competeing it will make their experience at Washburn a better one
-athletes don't HAVE to do this one, they can choose another one, but this is availible to student-athletes who may feel too busy to do a different WTE
-Garrett's perspective as a student-athlete is a great tool to have in creating this WTE
Nicole Perkuhn:
-it is very hard to find time to complete the WTE because we are traveling a lot on the weekends and we have practices during the week
-free time is usually dedicated to homework and projects assigned for classes.
-this sounds like a great idea because it would make my athletic experience just that much better
-i would hope it contains some community service activity because i feel as though that is a very important aspect of the WTE that is already in place
-I was stuck and not sure what I was going to do, running out of time.
Research WEEK EIGHT:
ReplyDeleteLoren Ferre:
-there have been meetings with dr. farley and budget vuts have been made for the next school year
-the athletic department has decided to only let those cute effect the administrative side and not the individual teams
-there have been administrative positions that are frozen after people left them, don't know if or when they will reopen
-don't want to cut anything that will directly ompact the student-athletes, we do everything we do for them
-the NCAA is thinking about cutting the number of competitions in each division to cut down the cost of travel and such
-competitions being cut at just WU isn't a possibility bc we don't want out teams have a lower chance at making the post season, would only do it if the MIAA or NCAA did
-they are working harder to fundraise money, Kerry is the full timer for that job, doing a good job getting new people and keeping old sponsors
-have to find a way to cover travel and recruiting, hard to just stop travleing unlesss you cut the competition, looking into more ways for the department to be more efficient
Summer Harris:
-in charge of sports marketing at WU
-has to find sponsors, talk to them, get them do sponsor one or more sports
-says some sponsors are dropping out, some are staying and giving the same amount, some sponsors are giving more money, and there are some new sponsors that are sponsoring now continuing into next season
-still the number one ticket sales in the MIAA, but all the sales are lower across the MIAA compared to previous years
-money from the tickets goes to general funds for the university
-Dr. Farley is really supportive of athletics here on campus
-trying different promotions to get more people in the door, such as the pink out game and the cash promotion
-there aren't much more fans at the men's bball games compared to the women, but it is hard to tell because you only have to buy one ticket to see both games
Research WEEK NINE:
ReplyDeleteSummer Harris:
-there were 60 special olympics athletes signed up, 48 came and there was about 50 Washburn athletes there as well
-did check in then ate pizza, played the sports, and did the awards presentation
-jordan shefte sang karaoke to welcome the athlets into the event with a redition of Picture to Burn by Taylor Swift (video availible)
-the event is to allow special olypics athletes to get involved and be able to interact with student-athletes at washburn
-lauren lawless, president of SAAC, was most responsible for putting the even on
-the two DJs donated their time to the event and volunteered
-there were more bowlers last year but at this event there was more interaction between the athletes
-10 different sports to play (football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, dancing...etc.)
-able to have more prizes to give away than last year because the amount it costs to rent out a bowling alley is where most of the money went last year
-hope to do one of the events next year again
Research WEEK TEN:
ReplyDeleteChris Herron:
-has been coaching at WU for 7 seasons
-played baseball in college
-recruits players for their talent but also makes sure that they are going to mesh well with his teams personality
-recruiting is more than just watching a player once a deciding the sign them
-need to research the player, watch them many times, ask around about the player
-there are a lot of different rules regarding recruiting, sometimes hard to keep up with all of them
-there has been issue on what the rules are surround text messaging since it became so popular
-athletic director helps us make sure we are doing everything within the guildlines
-i am an agressive coach when it comes to recruiting, I try to find players who are as good and will push my current players, or players who i think are better than the players I already have
-I want to win a national championship and that is what I think about when I am recruiting
-can be a tough situation because you already love all the players you have, they are like family, but to an extent it is a business, and the business will only run smoothly if you continue to win