Week Round-Up

I was unable to go into the office on Tuesday because of midterms. However, on Wednesday I was able to help the media relations team with the basketball media day. It was held in the practice gym and there were only a handful of reporters there to interview the team. My job was to help another intern interview players for the magazines that media relations distributes on game days. The interviews had set questions about each players' basketball journey, so they were very easy to do. It was definitely intimidating though - those are some TALL young men!

On Thursday, I went into the office for a few hours to finish up my graphics for the new cheer and dance website. I finished the header graphic and I'm really excited about it! It looks very modern, exciting and relevant to cheer and dance. I also built the buttons that we'll need to link the other pages (rosters, photo galleries, etc.) to the main page.

Once I finished working on the graphics, I spent some time writing a brief history of the demon deacon mascot for the new mascot page. It was fairly easy to do because I was able to use past stories written for wakeforestsports.com that documented the history. The challenge however was figuring out what really needed to be in the copy. I didn't want it to be ridiculously long because then people wouldn't read it. However, I also didn't want to cut out key actors in the history of the demon deacon. I think I found a pretty good balance though! You can be the judge when the website goes up in coming weeks.

Now, I need to get to work on my next feature for the website. Hint: It's about baseball, but with a twist. Let's just say that, in terms of research, I have my work cut out for me.

Will update soon!
Calais