It was a busy day. Spend the first hour in the office getting the dates sorted for refreshers. Afterwards i was in 2 meetings with the captains, about varsity and the money side of it all. In the 2nd meeting it was about campus development and how student want the campus to develop and improve. I spoke a lot about improving the sports facilities; adding another 3G where the grass pitches are.

3 Hours.

In the same week I was in the office on Friday the 17th, me and sports officer Luis Costa were tasked with making a poster for refreshers. This is to make everyone aware of what we are putting on for the students. Making sure that we have the right dates, times and locations.

Every day I am getting more and more comfortable and confident in the work I am doing for the Sports Federation.

2 hours.

It was good to get back from Christmas break and get back to working in the office. I was task with a few objectives for the new year which i got to work straight away with getting football fixtures for our men’s 5th team. The 5th team have only had one game this season and that wasn’t fair on our lads. I have been able to get us a match against Falmouth university on Sunday the 19th. Which is just a first of  a few games we have lined. We’ve got Exeter Uni, Exeter college and Plymouth College all happy to go ahead with a match. With a possible 2nd game with all teams. I was really happy to do this for the football club and I’m glad that teams have accepted our offer. It just shows that I can do the job that could be apart of my future work and that I am good at getting opportunities of the ground. Sticking with football I looked on the English Universities Sport website and they have football trials coming up for the England Universities national team. i have been allowed to create a list of the best male footballers Marjon has and will send them to the trials. I will be helped by Sports Officer Luis Costa and Football Club Captain Matt Callow.

With Refreshers only 3 weeks away we are going to run 3 sporting events for people to do in the day during refreshers. We have planned rounders, bubble football and dodge ball. This is a great chance for people who play sport and also those who don’t to come along and have fun for a few hours. We have faced some problems as the sports hall is full on most days. Rounders might be done on the 3G but the problem is that the weather could be really bad on that day which means no one will turn up. Dodge ball looks like it will be done on a Sunday which might not be the best thing as sporting events put on a Sunday normally don’t do well. We need to talk to all the captains about this and make sure they come along with a lot of there team.

4 hours.

Later on in the week i was in the Sports Federation office, working on and talking about refreshers. We have planned to do 3 sports during refreshers of indoor rounders, dodge ball and bubble football.

I have also put together a list of the upon coming national and regional events coming up in the new year so students to do and represent the university.

2 hours.

We had a captains meeting at the start of the week for a varsity catch up, further student sport development and that all the captains know who i am and what i am doing as apart of the sports federation. I didn’t know what to expect going into the meeting however, it was a very relaxed meeting and it was good to see friendly faces in the meeting.

1 hour.

On Sunday the 1st of December i run a social handball session for people to attend, have fun and play a new sport. There was a lot of interest for handball from the survey however, only 4 people turned up. This was a disappointment for me as it was the first event i have put on. But it is something to learn from. Maybe i didn’t promote it was much as i should have done. I just felt like it was just a small social event for people to do so it doesn’t need that much more promotion.

Hours done: 2

I had my first meeting with the sports federation and the SU. We spoke about how to get more females at Marjon into sport, that will be followed by a meeting with the female teams captains. Social Sundays will be sporting activities that will happen every Sunday. With good response from the survey i created, I will be running handball sessions on Sunday’s. If it goes well we could possibly run a full handball club. I look forward to implement ideas from meeting into practice.

Hours done: 2

1 from the meeting and 1 for my time creating the survey.