By Christina Wright ('10)

Many professionals in the sports industry will tell you that one of the reasons they love their job is because no day is exactly the same. Whether you are part of the Ohio University sports administration family or just curious about the MBA/MSA program, you can join the Center for Sports Administration and follow the not-so-typical days of our graduate students. This edition features MBA/MSA students Kate Boyer ('10), Justin Hunt ('10), Alicia Lawrence ('11), and Alex Vitanye ('10).

A Day in the Life of Kate Boyer ('10)
6:35 AM Wake up and shower
6:50 AM Get dressed and continue studying for Dr. Li’s research methods midterm
8:01 AM Catch bus to Grover Center
8:37 AM Take Dr. Li’s research methods midterm
10:47 AM Finish exam and hurry home to finish up internship deliverable and presentation and run some errands
2:02 PM Give my internship presentation to my advisor, Dr. Ridpath ('95)
3:00 PM Speed home to finish packing and leave for the airport with Alex Vitanye ('10), Jason Hill ('10), Darren Cohen ('10), and Sean O’Hara ('10)
4:38 PM Fall asleep in car and have awful picture taken of me by O’Hara
5:02 PM Arrive at Columbus airport to find our flight is delayed until almost midnight and that we would miss our connection to New Orleans
5:03 PM Customer service attendant tells us if we hurry we can make a flight that was delayed since 11:30 AM today and it is already boarded. We take off running…
5:16 PM Board plane and start long conversation with agriculture and food law professor from University of Arkansas
6:30 PM Land in Memphis and find local barbeque restaurant for dinner
7:29 PM Board flight to New Orleans
9:25 PM Land in New Orleans, pick up our gold Sebring rental car, and drive to Baton Rouge
11:21 PM Arrive in Baton Rouge at Chris Kosmala’s ('09) apartment
1:26 AM Sleep in recliner, get ready for Florida at LSU football gameday

A Day in the Life of Justin Hunt ('10)
7:00 AM Alarm goes off
7:30 AM I get out of bed and get ready for class
8:00 AM Attend Sports and Consumers with Dr. Pfahl
10:00 AM Participated in thesis project for a graduate student
10:15 AM Received my body fat feedback from the thesis project
10:20 AM Decided I need to develop a workout plan to decrease my results from the thesis study
10:30 AM GRS office hours with Professor Aaron Wright
12:30 PM Went to my apartment to eat lunch
1:30 PM Went to computer lab in Grover to print documents for Dr. Li's class
2:00 PM Attended Dr. Li's (a.k.a. Old Master) research class
4:00 PM Attended my class in Copeland Hall to listen to a lecture
6:00 PM Went to Ping to implement my new workout plan (see above)
6:45 PM After looking for an excuse to stop, realized I have flag football and had to leave
7:15 PM Ate dinner and got ready for flag football
8:35 PM Called Kate Boyer ('10) who confirmed that our game at 8:45 PM was not cancelled
8:40 PM Walked to the intramural fields to find that the lights were off and our game was cancelled
8:41 PM Realized Boyer was wrong and walked home
9:00 PM Prepared for our team meeting the following day at Alden Library
10:30 PM Went to Broney's for some rest and relaxation
12:30 PM Bedtime

A Day in the Life of Alicia Lawrence ('11)
6:00 AM Wake-up and start the day off right listening to CMT music videos
7:20 AM Walk to Courtyard bus stop with the roommates
8:00 AM SHARP! Accounting class with Dr. Kirch who employed Beau Bauer ('11) and Dan Hennessey ('11) to act out marginal-cost analysis GVS style
10:00 AM Checked in with my Graduate Assistantship supervisor, Dr. Lamb, who only had some take-home research for me, so I stole away to the 6th floor oasis conference-room to chip away at some finance and accounting homework
12:00 PM Marketing class with Dr. Axinn and turned in a critique
2:00 PM First meeting with MBA Executive Board as Social Chair
3:00 PM Warmed up a Lean Cuisine and read a chapter of my leisure book, Mark McCormack's What They Don't Teach You in Harvard Business School
4:00 PM Management class with Dr. Stoner
6:30 PM MSA Class Meeting with the 2nd years
8:00 PM Watched NCIS Season Premiere with Mike Rose ('10) and worked on a little more homework
9:45 PM Flag football game with some MBA exclusives and 1st years
11:00 PM Read for Management to wind down
12:30 AM Lights Out!! Whew, what a day!

A Day in the Life of Alex Vitanye (’10)
7:30 AM Wake up at Chris Kosmala's ('09) apartment and get ready for the day
8:15 AM Arrive at Tiger Stadium and Pete Maravich Assembly Center and assignments from Ward Wyatt ('99)
8:30 AM Begin setting up Zatarain's Tiger One Village hospitality and assist LSU Sports Properties client services team
10:30 AM The band Cowboy Mouth arrives, work with stage crew and band to prepare for concert
12:30 PM Finish concert set up, tour LSU campus to check out tailgates
2:30 PM Return to Tiger One Village for lunch and Cowboy Mouth show duties
3:30 PM Escort "over-excited" LSU fans from radio stage to make room for LSU cheerleaders
5:00 PM Cowboy Mouth show ends, concert tear down with roadies and tour manager; try to convince them to play Athens
6:30 PM Tiger One Village tear down, lots of "Tiger Bait" chants
7:45 PM Head into Tiger Stadium with Katie Boyer ('10), Jason Hill ('10), Sean O'Hara ('10) and Kosmala; record crowd of 93,039 in attendance
10:30 PM Gators win, head back to Tiger One Village with LSU Sports Properties staff, Geaux Tigers!

For more information on our graduate students, please visit the Class of 2010 and 2011 profile pages.