Reinhardt University
Sport Studies Program
Site Visit Summary
Sport Site: GA Tech Recreation Center Date 11/17/11
Location: Atlanta
Site Contact:
Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.
Site Facilities: Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.
- Lobby-Get a membership at the desk and sitting area/information board
- Café-Spot to eat within the Rec Center
- Upper level-Basketball/badminton courts (6) running track around top/fitness equipment, hockey court, aerobics and athletic class teaching areas
- Bottom level-Workout area with all work out equipment, rock climbing wall, 3 pools where casual swimming and competitive swimming take place, dressing rooms/offices
- Places to check out equipment like balls and towels
Career Possibilities: What are potential career paths associated with this sports site? Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.
- Sports facility director and assistant director
- Desk check in and check out
- Lifeguards
- Equipment watch
- Cleaning
- Marketing
- Working within the café
- Person in charge of checking out equipment
What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit? What questions arose from this visit?
I learned that in a major sporting facility or recreation center there is a lot more work to do than I originally thought. Now I am interested in a job like this. There is a lot of maintenance and work that goes into maintaining this facility. With marketing being the career I would like to explore, I leaned that it is important for them to market because they have to maintain funding to run the various functions of the center. My main question would be do they look more to market for sponsorship funding or to get more members?
Student Name Erin Courington
Course Sports Admin Semester Fall 2011
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