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.
In the Assistant Directory role they have professional staff that reports all information and how everything is going throughout the work day. Mr. Matt manages the coordinators and has to make sure all of the supervisors are trained so that everything goes smoothly. So if anything goes wrong with specifically intramural sports he is held accountable for all mishaps.
In being an Assistant Director there are certain skills that you have to have and develop in order to be in this position. From the interview Mr. Matt said that a big part of it is scheduling, organization and programming. When you have to schedule leagues and tournaments those skills will help you on your task of getting things done. Also having a strong background in officiating will benefit you because you have to be able to teach all the student officials the proper way of how to officiate.
In the interview I asked Mr. Matt what made him want to apply to be an Assistant Director in Competitive Sports. He simply said it was because if the passion and love for sports. He worked as a student official and a supervisor with intramural sports when he was an Undergrad. Mr. Matt continued to enjoy working with students, student development and programming and decided to make it into a profession after grad school. Being that this was the case Mr. Matt was not in it for the money but just for the love of recreation and sports. In the field of recreation no one should be in it for the money. Institutions in the collegiate level, everyone has at least a master’s degree in business administration, so if people really wanted to make money they could utilize there degree elsewhere and make way more money.
In the interview Mr. Matt