Small Town Girl: Race Ready!

This semester for my major I had to take a class called Event Management. We get practical experince by raising sponsorship money or getting donations for the class. This class puts on 3 events: Charity Golf Tournament, Children's Health Field Day, and then the Nick Costes 5k/10k. There are Event Operations committee, Hospitality committee and then awards committee. I was on the Event Ops committee for the race and I was so blessed by the experience. There was 8 of us on our team and I dont say this because it was my committee, but I truly think that we had the best hard working group all together. Most committees had only one or two that would be hard working and ours went over and beyond our committees duties and helped with others. The race number have been down in the past and we wanted to try and revamp it. Well we partnered with a chip timing company in Montgomery and then the National Guard was a main sponsor. They went over and beyond for their part. They sponsored breakfast which was Panera Bread bagels, chicfila biscuits and then water and fruit. Then we did autographed balls by various sport teams at Troy for awards and then footballs signed by Coach Larry Blakney and some by former players who are in the NFL. We had tonsss of door prizses where I think that everyone left with atleast one if not more. There were stressful times but I am glad that I had the experience to put on this event. It has given me practical experience of how they are put on and I can now say that i have put one on. Our committee became close to one another as not many of us even knew the others. I am very thankful for the opportunity and the friendships that I have created!