Challenges Facing Sports Facilities Managers

As for the future of in-venue fan enhancements similar to “Unite This House”, the effort to continue to identify innovative ways to attract fans and maintain attendance will forever be a goal for sport organizations and venues around the country and beyond. As in the world of entertainment, sporting events must remain as relevant as the teams that play in them. Where striving to be the best is as common as the competitiveness of a game or match.

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which is only 45 minutes from Detroit, is a public higher learning institution that was founded in 1817. The University of Michigan is considered to be one of the best colleges in the country.

What are the differences in athletic administration between interscholastic and recreational sport programs? What is the importance of having a mission statement in any sport program?

Guests will be treated in a consistent, professional and courteous manner by all arena and team personnel.

The Players makes the chemical energy or the food into the energy in the stadium. Assistant coach is like the thing that stores the footballs and Gatorade for the team. The main coach is the person who calls out the orders in a game. The police is the people that give the stadium extra protection. The fans keep refilling the team's money supply. The General Manager is the person that keeps the team together by re-signing people to managing contracts. The security guards are the people that say who can go in with a ticket and who has no ticket that

Since the move toward an NCAA Division 1 program in 2008, FGCU Athletics showed how quickly it was able to adapt to a more competitive league by finishing their debut year with three A-Sun Conference championships along with setting several NCAA records. The school came close to defeating the University of Florida in the women's basketball NIT tournament, and the baseball team almost defeated the University of Miami, which ranked

Attendees should be monitored to be sure they are not bringing alcohol on the bus(es). All members and guests must take the approved and hired transportation to the event after checking in. If walking, members need to walk in large groups with member(s) of the Risk Management Team. Exceptions to taking the planned transportation must be granted in advance by the Risk Management Specialist and Risk Management Director. Once at the venue, venue staff or security will give wristbands to members and guests who are of legal drinking age (for events with alcohol). Members of the Risk Management Team should be double-checking using a birthday list. However, they should not be in charge of checking IDs. At the end of the event, all members must take the approved and planned transportation back to campus. A checkout list for each bus must be utilized so no member or guest is left behind. Members are responsible for making sure their guests take the hired transportation back to campus. If using one bus to shuttle members to and from an event, all attendees must be at the venue for a minimum of one hour prior to the bus beginning to take attendees back to campus. Members should sign up for the bus they want to take back to campus so the Risk Management Team can check everyone out. Co-Sponsors Advance approval from the Risk Management Specialist is required for social events with more than one co-sponsor. All co-sponsors must be in good standing, recognized

of those rare people who really knows how to "make things happen." I have gone

For my Sport Manager Interview I interviewed Mr. Matt Seibring who is an Assistant Director in Competitive Sports. I asked Mr. Matt questions that related to his job and basically to help prepare and give me advice for my career plans in the future.

Borland, J. F., Kane, G. M., & Burton, L. J. (n.d.). Sport leadership in the 21st century.

2014 Graduate: Bachelor of Management In Event & Leisure Industries at University of Technology Sydney

For any crazed sports fanatic there is nothing more exciting than taking your family to see your favorite team play their rivals. What can be better than being in the midst of the biggest rivalry in sports? Of course nothing ruins a good family sporting event like a bunch of out of control intoxicated fans. Alcohol presents nothing but foul language, fights, possible DUI’s and car accidents. The presence of alcohol only puts the public at risk at the expense of giving people entertainment by being under the influence. Having alcohol present at collegiate sporting events is not only unnecessary, but it’s more of a nuisance than anything else.

An event is defined as any public gathering of people for a purpose which might relate to sport-small of large sporting events, business/corporate needs, meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops. Events are staged both for profit, by business, government or community bodies or groups such as awards nights, celebrations and launches. It is important to know where events might be held which include indoors in stadiums, arenas and hotels or outdoors such as on water, parks, in the desert and in the street. Events can be small, local or large that involves many attendees. In the event stage industry there is a range of information that would help you when working in the event industry which includes having the knowledge of relevant

The purpose of this paper will be to explore my career option in event management. The elements that will be

1) Events are gatherings of people and occasions the key is to have a good