Facilities at Campbell

Tennis Courts
Distant View of the New Football Stadium









Football Field House









Soccer/Softball Field

Athletic Training Facility/Soccer,Softball &Tennis Locker Rooms

New Convocation Center

week of 8/18-8/22

Monday: out of the office-class registration
Tuesday:9:30-6:00
Wednesday: 9:30-12
Thursday: 9:30-4
Friday: 9:30-4
Total: 24 hours

Monday
I was not in the office today I had to go back to school today to register for classes and get some schedule stuff taken care of

Tuesday
I spent the morning in compliance. I finished cleaning out and organizing the study hall room and ran off copies of a syllabus for a PE class. Other than that, this week has been crazy for the compliance office with Students coming in to sign up for classes or fix schedules or fill out NCAA paperwork, so there was not a lot for me to do. I ran over to the football field house and picked up some signed footballs for sponsors that would be handed out that eveningIn the afternoon I went back to marketing to help out with a street fair that was held this afternoon. Different businesses/churches, etc. from the surrounding areas and different departments from Campbell set up booths and handed out information pertaining to their services. We handed out Discount cards and pocket schedules to students and gave them information pertaining to Camel Crazies and the first games of the season.

Wednesday
Wednesday was a half day for me because I had to go back to school and take care of some other details. There was not a lot for me to do today, again because Kevin and Drew have both been running around with a lot last-minute football stuff that seems to have been put off or delegated to them.

Thursday
I was in Compliance today there was a new compliance Intern today, and we both worked together to make Evaluation and contact forms for each of the coaches. It is important that the coaches know when they are allowed to call potential student athletes and when they are allowed to go watch them play.

Friday
I was back in marketing today. I ran off some copies of flyers to take over to the recreation department in Dunn and Benson on Monday. I helped Drew make a list of all the football players and numbers and hometowns for the scrolling scoreboard at the field. In the afternoon I went to the football stadium and helped them figure out how to set up the tunnel the football team will run out of on Game Day. They wanted to do a run-through of how long it would take to get it taken down and off the field on game day. This was a lot of fun because I got to see the field up close for the first time.

week of 8/11-8/15

Monday: 9:30-1:00
Tuesday: 10:15-12
Wednesday: 9:30-1:00
Thursday: 1:30-5:30
Friday: 9:30-4:30 8-10:30 pm from home
Saturday: 9:15-10:45
Total: 23hrs

Monday
I was in Compliance today, Heather explained to me today that there were some athletes that they wanted to keep an extra careful eye on their academics, so they were putting them on a plan to make sure their work was taken care of. My job was to make files for all of these people today. this involved going through lists of un- alphabetized schedules and names to find their schedules and putting them into the file. Then I had to type up individual labels for each of the files and label the files. This took a little longer than I anticipated because nothing was alphabetized. I left early today because they have employee orientation this week, and no one was in the office in the afternoon for me to do any work.

Tuesday
Today I was in Sales and Marketing, I came in around 10:00 and we had a meeting with the Audio Visual Department about what we need to do as far as communication at football games. My observations pertaining to football is that there does not seem to be a big sense of urgency on the part of a lot of people as far as having things ready for the first game. Basically, all we got from this meeting is that they can order us some stuff, but we won't have it by the first game. Kevin has been mentioning this for months, but it is the first time anyone has asked us to look into anything. This meeting took about just over an hour and a half, and then I went home for the day because again they had employee orientation in the afternoon.

Wednesday
Today I was back in Compliance. I started off the morning making a few more labels for student athletes. Later I worked with Heather on a project that she was working on. She was making some sort of report working with CAi (Compliance Assistant for internet), but she left out a big part of it. I had to go through the rosters of all of the teams at Campbell and check off their ethnicity. If they were not US citizens, I had to go through and check off that # 1 they were not American, and #2 their ethncity. I had to go through and make a spreadsheet of total number of white, black, mexican people etc. on every team. It is a very important part of this report she was putting together.

Thursday
They had CPR and first aid training this morning, so I did not come in until this afternoon. This afternoon Drew( marketing assistant) and I went around the local area to practically every store/restaurant we could and handed out pocket schedules to leave at the register. We handed out approximately 10,000 schedules. We would just go in and ask if we could leave schedules at the register, and most places had no problem with it. Some places did have corporate regulations that prevented them from leaving the out for us.

Friday
Today was a bit of a crazy day for me. I was back in Compliance office this morning. They had me organizing a study hall room and sorting through a lot of stuff they had ordered for their students. It was odd for me to see a lot of this, because the athletic department at Methodist does not do anything like this. We are required to have study hall hours at Methodist, but at Campbell they order pens and pencils, USB drives, paper, etc. I had to go through all of this stuff and sort it out and put it where it belonged. I also had to rearrange the study carols and just generally make the room more navigable, because it was completely stuffed with stuff. Around 11:00 I went back over to Sales and marketing for a meeting with FCA again. They have decided to sponsor a soccer game and they wanted to find out exactly what would be required of them. I brought in my marketing plan that I more or less wrapped up and talked over it with Kevin. He gave me some of his thoughts, and I made some changes to the plan. I am planning to work a soccer game at the beginning of the season to see how it works according to the plan I came up with. After my meeting in the morning, I went back to Compliance and continued to organize the study hall room.

Saturday
This morning I went to the Lillington Recreation Departments preseason camp for Soccer and Football. I went to hand out some information for about some things we will be doing for soccer and football this year. Hopefully we will be able to develop a relationship with them and be involved with them in the future.

week of 8/4-8/8

I was out of Town in Vermont all of this week.

Week of 7/28-8/1

Monday: 10-11
Tuesday: 10-4:30
Wednesday: out of the office-bday
Thursday: 10-4:30
Friday: 9:30-2:30
20 hours

Monday

Today I was in sales because we had a meeting scheduled with The Women's soccer coach to talk about some promotional ideas. Unfortunately, the meeting was canceled because the new assistant coach came in that day and they were taking care of a lot of the paperwork and whatnot that is involved with hiring new people. I had planned to take this afternoon to go to school and take care of next semester and what not because everyone in compliance was out of the office, so I was only in the office for a short period today

Tuesday

Today I was in sales again, we rescheduled the soccer meeting for this morning. We met the new assistant and got some input as to some of the things we plan to do this year. One of the assistants volunteered to talk with some of the people at the soccer complex in Fayetteville about getting some of their teams to scrimmage at half time of our games. They also volunteered some of their equipment for us to use for some of our promotions. In the afternoon I started working on putting together the marketing calendar for Volleyball and Soccer. I focused on Soccer this afternoon. It involved looking at all of the home games for the season and planning activities for in-game, half-time, etc. It also involved deciding on theme nights for these games and what kind of trade we plan to use at each game, and how much of the trade we would use. We also had to consider that some sports have games that occur simultaneously on the same day, so as not to plan too much for one sport and draw spectators from other sports.

Wednesday
Today I was out of the office commemorating my 22nd Birthday

Thursday
Today I was in sales, I spent most of my day working on my marketing plan for soccer. It is particularly difficult to plan in-game activities for soccer because there is not really any down time in soccer. We also have some theme nights such as Faculty appreciation or Camper Reunion night that we would like to recognize on days when we have double headers, so as to have it be a part of both Women's and Men's Soccer, but it is difficult to do considering how the schedule is set up, and how it interferes with other sports. Tomorrow is the deadline to have all of the ads ready to print to be put into the game programs for the fall season. There has been a lot of emailing and making phone calls to make sure we have the right logos, and that the logos look the way our clients would like them to look. I dropped by the Compliance office this afternoon to make sure that they would have some things for me to do, because Heather was out of the office in Coaches Meetings all day long.

Friday

Today I was in Compliance, working on an event calendar for all of the activities for this semester. I made a copy with only the home games, and a copy with all of the games for this coming fall season. I will add all of the athlete seminars and meetings and guest speakers at a later date when we have more information as to when those activities will be. I went through all of the freshmen and transfers Fall Schedules to make sure we had all of them. This has a lot to do with keeping accurate track of study hall hours. It also helps keep track of their advisor's and different tests and requirements they will be responsible for during the season. I started working on an evaluation and contact log for coaches to keep track of the times it is legal for them to contact athletes as well as the number of times they have contacted each individual athlete and/or the number of times the athletes have visited campus.

Next week I will be out of town in Vermont, so there will be no update.

week of 7/21-7/25

Monday: 9:30-3:30
Tuesday: Not in the office: other obligation
Wednesday: 9:30-4:45
Thursday: 10-4:45
Friday: 9:30-11
Total: 21.5

Monday
I spent today in Compliance. This morning I worked with one of the Compliance assistants, Justin on editing some institutional forms for Campbell. Most student athletes know that they are required to fill out some NCAA paperwork when they come to school permitting themselves to be drug tested and confirming their test scores before they are eligible to play. There are also some institutional forms that are used for the individual school's purposes. The main purpose for doing this was to eliminate any redundancy in those forms to make sure we were not asking the same questions over and over again. After going through the forms and deciding what corrections needed to be made, we had to remake the forms themselves and submit them to the director for her to approve. I also spent some more time working on the Study hall sign-in sheets for the different sports. The Director, Heather liked what I had done with that, so that will most likely be what they use this season.

Tuesday
I was out of the office today because of some prior commitments I had made.

Wednesday
Wednesday morning I spent in compliance. The director was out this morning picking up an interviewee for an assistant position at the airport. I spent the morning going through the University's data program to find out whether or not certain student athletes had confirmed their schedules for the fall yet. This pertained to study hall hours and how many they would be required to do, or whether or not they would have to do study hall at all. This actually took me a little while to do because some people have very generic names like: "John Smith", and there may be 20 other "John Smith's" enrolled at Campbell. I kind of had to search through all of the names to make sure I was confirming the right person's Schedule. I finished before anyone had returned back to the office. I have noticed that this kind of seems to be a pattern while I am working in Compliance. They give me something to do that they think will take me a long time to do, and then I finish, and they don't have anything for me to do. After I finished I walked back over to sales and marketing for a little while. When Heather arrived back from the airport, I walked back over to compliance, and they told me that because of the interview that afternoon, they didn't really have any other pressing things for me to do that afternoon. I spent that afternoon in sales and marketing. Kevin told me to research some of the contact information for local recreation departments because we hope to get some of them involved with some of our promotions this year.

Thursday
In the morning I sent out an email to all of the recreation departments I had researched on Wednesday. I was just informing them of some of the things we were planning to do and telling them we hoped to get some local recreation departments involved this year. I got a couple of responses to my email about handing out flyers at registration days. In the afternoon I finished updating trade spreadsheet. This spreadsheet specified exactly how much trade from each of our companies, if we had any at all. It also specified how much trade had been used, and for what it had been used, and was formulated to show how much was left after some of it was used.

Friday
I don't really have anything to say about today. Heather was out of town today, so she had no projects for me. I came into the office and they had me doing something with one of the assistants, but then the computer started to misbehave, and we could not do what we were supposed to do. Eventually, I just went home, they didn't have anything for me to do. Part of this is due to the fact that there is a lot of confidential stuff in the Compliance department, so there are some things I can't really be involved with.

week of 7/14-7/18

Monday: 9:30-1:00
Tuesday: 10-4
Wednesday: 9:30-4
Thursday: 12:30-4
Friday: 9:30-12:30
Total: 22.5

Monday
Today was my first day in the compliance department. When I came in, I spoke with the director, Heather Lee about some of the work I would be doing. One of the first things I did after speaking with Heather was to assist one of the compliance assistants with determining which athletes interested in Campbell had been cleared by the Clearinghouse. If they weren't cleared, we had to determine what they were missing. After that, I spent a lot of time filing athletic scholarship letters. These were all of the letters informing student-athletes of the amount of athletic aid they were receiving. They were also informed of whether or not their amount of aid had been increased, decreased, or completely taken away. There were approximately 300 or so of these letters, so they took a little while for me to finish filing. This afternoon I had an eye-doctors appointment, so I had to head out a little bit early from work.

Tuesday
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am still spending some time in sales and marketing because of my internship project. The major thing we had going on today was a meeting with the student coordinator(s) for Campbell's FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes). His name is Josh Kimball, he was a student-athlete here at Campbell an is involved with the leadership of that organization here at Campbell, we also met with another member involved with leadership her name was Heidi Shallow, and she is also a student-athlete here at Campbell. Their primary reason for wanting to meet with us was to see if they could somehow become involved with some promotions during games, and to also find out what exactly they would be permitted to do during games. But they really wanted to find out how to really reach out to students and get them interested in coming to athletic events at Campbell. Because to be quite honest, there is not a lot to do in Buies Creek on the weekends. It was a good meeting because by the end we had really gotten them interested in possibly sponsoring some nights at the soccer games, and helping/hosting some promotions during half-times at different games. They also had some ideas that really helped us get our wheels turning as far as things to do at games. For example, we have been trying to find people to sing the national anthem at games, and they have access to a lot of people who can sing well. Also, they were interested in finding people to pray at games, considering Campbell is a Baptist school, and it would be done by someone regardless of whether or not they planned it. Hopefully this meeting will benefit us in the fall and help us with planning some promotions. The purpose of this meeting pertained directly to my internship project, so I was excited when we were done. After the meeting we printed off camp orders and took them to the business manager and headed out for the day.

Wednesday
Wednesdsay I was back in the Compliance department. I spent my morning going through softball stats to find out which of the players had used a year of eligibility this past season and which ones had not. This actually took me a little longer than I had expected because there was only one girl who didn't play at all this season. Everyone else's name I found pretty quickly, but I had to wade through the stats for every game just to make sure this girl didn't play at all this season. Then I had to fill out an eligibility list with all of the girls names on it so we can keep track of their eligibility for the next four years. In the afternoon I typed up a roster for a PE class the University is starting with every single freshman and transfer student-athlete's name on it. I believe this class is essentially designed to teach these student-athletes time management, etc. This took a little while because I had to go through the list and type in all of their student id numbers, meeting times, etc. There were upwards of 100 students to put into this roster, so typing all that information in took a little while.

Thursday
Back in sales and marketing today-I was told not to come in until 12:30 because they were in a meeting at the time I normally come in. Major activities today included a meeting with the new volleyball coaches to talk about some promotions for the fall. Again, this pertained directly to my internship project as far as planning promotional activities for the marketing plan. Nothing has ever been done with Volleyball in the past, so anything we do this year will be brand new, and hopefully it will establish a precedent for years to come. Planning activities for this year in volleyball will be a little tricky because they will be spending the first few games of their season in the old gym, and then they will be moving over to the new facility, which will make doing some of the promotions easier. Again, there are some limitations to what we can do in the new gym, simply because it is a new facility, and for various other reasons as well. I feel as though the meeting was very productive, and the new coaches were very excited about getting some things going, and even told us about some ideas they had been throwing around with each other. They really like a lot of the ideas that Drew and I thought up, and had some more that they had been thinking about. They both came from schools that had a large Greek life, and Campbell has no Greek life what so ever, so they are used to having large numbers of student support, and hope to be able to raise that support here at Campbell over the next couple of years.
After the meeting I went through all of the sponsors from this year and last and put together a list of their "Total Sponsorship Packages" including both trade and cash. This will help us determine in the future what "level" Camel Club member they are. There are different levels depending on the amount of money spent sponsoring Campbell athletics.

Friday
Friday was a very short day. Heather was out of the office, and a lot of the things they wanted me to do for some reason I could not get access to. When it came down to it, I worked on creating a sign-in sheet for study hall for all of the freshman and transfer athletes. All freshmen and transfers are required to have a certain number of study hall hours, in addition to stuedents who do no meet the GPA requirements to participate. They have had problems in the past concerning this because they would have one piece of paper per student athlete for four weeks. They were wasting a lot of paper and time adding up the number of hours the athletes were accruing. Certain teams even had one piece of paper per player per week. My job was to find a way to fit the entire team into one document instead of having individual sign-in sheets for each athlete. With the football team last year they were taking upwards of 80 sign-in sheets weekly. I formatted one that allows them to fit an entire team into one document and will save them a lot of time and paper.