GA Dome Trip

Sport Site: GA Dome Date 11.17.11

Location: Atlanta, GA

Site Contact: Tour Guide

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.
- Locker Rooms - Where the players prepare for games, this a very big area for a large amount of players
- Field - Multi Purpose space, for sports events, music concerts, wrestling. Can hold up to 83,000 people.
- Media Area -  Where the media sit when the falcons or GA state play their games, a very big and open area.
- Verizon Suite - Verizon invested a large about of money into this suite, they have employees working on game days with offers on cell phones.
- Suites - Anybody can purchase one of these but your investment is not just for one season it is between a 3 and 7 year period.
- Super Suite - This is a suite where any person can buy just one luxury seat within this big suite, but the time period on this is the same as the normal suites.
- Helmet Wall - This has all of the high school helmets for all the schools in GA.

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

This wasn’t really mentioned to us by the tour guide at any point but I suspect that they dome has many different career possibilities in all different areas. This is such a huge space with some many different areas to work in. So I think by looking online and finding job opening this would tell me a little bit more.

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

Once again, this trip did not fill me with a huge amount of knowledge but I did enjoy my tour around the stadium. I am a huge sports fan so being able to look around a space that NFL players get to use on a weekly basis was great.

GA Tech Field Trip

Sport Site: GA Tech Rec Centre Date 11.17.11

Location: GA Tech, Atlanta

Site Contact: Jon Hart

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.
- Work out area - anybody can access this, whether it is students, alumini, faculty. It is a great space.
- Climbing Wall - This is open every day for a certain amount of time for groups of people.
- Basketball Gyms - 6 of these for anyone to use, can be reserved or any of the tech students can use it.
- Track - Around the top of the Bball courts, 6 laps is a mile. Great space to use for anyone
- Competition Pool - Both diving & a races which is used for a lot of the swimming teams event in the AAC
- Leisure Pool - Has a pool to swim lengths, a slide, and lazy river which can be used by anyone at most times of the day
- Multi Purpose Area’s - Used for different classes such as aerobics, spinning, and martial arts.

Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

- Interns - Jon mentioned that last year was the first year that tech have offered interns that are paid. The interns can be pretty much be done at any point during the year, these are an average of 20hrs a week over a certain amount of time.

- The Rec centre has only four members of full time staff, they rely pretty much on the students working there to keep the place open but they do have several job openings right now. One of which is the aquatic director.

What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

From a learning perspective I did not gain that much knowledge from the trip but I did realise how much these bigger schools have compared to our small school. Their Rec facilities are 10x better than what we have at Reinhardt. Also that Tech rely on their students to keep everything running smoothly for them, I think this is great.

Turner Field Visit

Sport Site: Turner Field Date 11.3.11

Location: Atlanta, GA

Site Contact: Dave (Tour Guide)

Instructions: Submit (as an email attachment) a summary addressing information below and any other topics associated with the visit within before the next class meeting.

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.
- Museum - This was full of memorabilia from famous stars that played for the braves
- Top of the Stadium - Viewed the old Fulton county stadium and also saw where the Olympic stadium    used to be
- Suites - Saw where you could sit in comfort on a game day, eat and drink in style.
- Media Box - See where all of the media sits while the games are played and saw where each person would sit.
- Delta365 - Members pay money to sit in this part of the stadium, get waited on, watch the game in the cool, and watch other games.
- Locker Room - Where the team gets prepared for games, each have their own space.
- Dug Outs - Getting to stand where the players did on games day


Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

Internships are offered regularly not just by the braves but also by the two minor league teams associated with them: Rome & Gwinnett. All of these teams interview often for possible interns, also if you are lucky enough to get the position there is a high possibility that you are first in line for a full time job with the team once you are done with your work experience. This is common with a lot of work forces.


What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

I learned a lot about what the Braves do as far as signing up for memberships. They have many types of this around the stadium, this also involves other companies such as delta. The Braves have a lot of sponsors in the stadium such as coca cola, they pay a lot to have their own part of the stadium. A lot of the things we were told on the tour were valuable knowledge to hold. I did not have any questions for the tour guide, I could not think of anything he hadn’t covered.