Sport and Event Management Internship (Orlando Fl/Tampa Fl)
About Prospect Wire: Prospect Wire (PW) is an event organizer and scouting service for high school baseball players and elite summer travel baseball organizations. PW organizes mass-scale tournaments across the United States that feature some of the nation’s top high school baseball talent. A given event can have anywhere from 16 to 150 teams.
Overview: To develop the skills of an aspiring sports management and event management student and providing them with real-world experience of creating and managing outdoor, fast-paced amateur baseball events. Objectives would include: tasks organized pre-event, post-event and at the events themselves. Interns would be expected to attend as many events as possible during their internship.
Over the course of this internship, you will work hands on with almost every aspect of how Prospect Wire organizes, operates and budgets for our baseball events. You will gain hands-on experience on how each aspect of the company is ran from top to bottom. You will help manage our staff and a team of interns to ensure we run the best events possible.
Schedule: The internship requirements can be customized to your schedule. Regardless if you’re enrolled in Summer A, B or C this internship will work for you.
Event Locations and Travel: Events are typically at the Seminole Sports Complex in Sanford, Fl, the New York Mets Complex in Port St. Lucie, Fl and Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in Auburndale, Fl.
Stipend, Expenses: There will be a $500.00 stipend paid to the student for the duration of this internship. This internship is mainly for students needing school credit and seeking hands-on experience in the sports management industry. PW covers your travel expenses such as hotel rooms (when traveling for an event), food while working at the fields and gas reimbursement during the event. In most scenarios, interns will be expected to room with another intern of the same gender.
Hours and requirements: In order to satisfy your internship hours, interns will be expected to work long days at our events. Typically our interns are at the field by 7am or in the office by 10am. Please be prepared for long days and very hot, humid summer weather. Between the tournaments and weekly work, there’s more than enough hours to satisfy your internship requirements over the semester.
Contact Information: If you would like more information, or to express your interest in the program, please do so ASAP by emailing your resume. If you are selected as a possible candidate for an internship, you will be contacted to set up an interview. The travel, hands-on nature and sports aspect of what PW offers has made this a very popular internship and there are a limited number of spots available.
Mike Easom
Director of National Operations
mike@prospectwire.comDetails: As a Prospect Wire (PW) intern, you will be responsible for several areas of sports/event management for our events.
During Events:
Presentation: Strategically hanging banners in high-traffic areas and making sure complexes are presentable. Dugouts and high-traffic areas need to be clean. Breakdown of banners and complexes.
Staging: Staging the environment to make players feel like it is a championship or playoff game including preparing for the trophy ceremony, music, handing out championship rings, championship t-shirts, placing specific banners. This may include PW and sponsor’s tent placements.
Team Relations: Include water and ice in the dugouts, baseballs at each field, and communicating which field needs what, which fields are running behind, etc. You will be the glue that keeps a complex or venue within the event operating smoothly.
Game Management: In order to understand how to run a complex, you must understand how each individual game is ran. You will be asked to run a field which would include managing that field/game, ensuring that each game has baseballs, umpires, submitted lineups and is properly scorekept. You may be asked to scorekeep and monitor games and submit final scores.
Complex and Venue Management: Lead our team of staff and interns at a particular complex or venue. Many staff members are assigned specific tasks that they can not abandon. Your role will be to manage them and assist with requests from customers so that those people don’t have to leave their job to do so. Overall, you will be responsible for ensuring your complex and venue remains on schedule.
Staff Relations: Ensuring catered food/bottled water is picked up for the staff and organized for the staff. Ensuring staff members are put in a position to succeed by ensuring their equipment is ready to go, batteries are charged, etc. Other staff relations include writing checks, ensuring staff members filled out tax forms properly, and more.
In Between Events:
Pre-Event Staffing: Finding athletic trainers to work every event, ensuring the safety of our customers. Double and triple checking all staffing, making sure everyone has rsvp’d for the event. Have backup staff on standby. Communicate hotel confirmation #s and addresses to staff members of where they will be staying. Communicating hours and specific jobs to staff members.
Data Entry: Assisting our tournament director with uploading the correct team rosters onto our site before each tournament. Preparing and organizing email announcements about the tournament. Without correct rosters, the college coaches, professional scouts and our scouts won’t know who the players are that they are scouting.