{"id":16251,"date":"2024-03-18T14:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=16251"},"modified":"2024-03-18T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:00:35","slug":"elizabethtown-college-career-development-center-hosts-career-in-sports-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/elizabethtown-college-career-development-center-hosts-career-in-sports-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Career Development Center Hosts Career in Sports Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Career Development Center recently hosted its second annual Careers in Sports Symposium, featuring live presentations from a wide range of professionals in sports. The event provided an opportunity for students with a passion for sports and athletics to learn about different career fields that influence sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cOur annual sports symposium is a great way for students who are considering a career in the sports industry to learn and connect with professionals in the sports world,\u201d Elizabethtown College Assistant Director of the Career Development Center, Carolyn Rigo said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Students were able to choose from a variety of presentations during the three-day symposium:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers In Coaching<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Randall Kreider, Recruiting Advisor, Nook Volleyball<\/li>\n<li>Troy Steffy, Lancaster Barnstormers<\/li>\n<li>Izzy Chavarin, Soccer Shots Harrisburg &amp; York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nCareers In Health and Wellness<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Savannah Greiner, Elizabethtown College Dietitian<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Thomas, VP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Tampa Bay Rays<\/li>\n<li>Whitney Crull, Director of the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-Being<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers In Sports Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashleigh Aungst \u201909, President of A2B Strategies<\/li>\n<li>Tammy Dahms \u201910, Vice President of Corporate Partnerships of Reading Royals<\/li>\n<li>Brian Sipe \u201905, General Manager of Oak View Group<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Warner \u201915, Manager of Media and Brand Marketing, FOX Sports<\/li>\n<li>Nate Smeltz \u201900, Senior Vice President, Global Communications and Talent Relations at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers In Sports Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Sandy Zettlemoyer, Head Athletic Trainer Mechanicsburg Area High School<\/li>\n<li>Eric Ellis, Hanger Orthotics and Prosthetics<\/li>\n<li>Mike Buonopane, Head of Medical- New England Free Jacks Professional Rugby<\/li>\n<li>Misty Chastain, Athletic Trainer Feld Entertainment &#8211; Currently traveling with Disney on Ice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Careers In Sports for STEM Majors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Twist \u201917, CEO of Mosaic Sports<\/li>\n<li>Mike Kenneally, Vice President and Co-Founder of ECD Lacrosse to Careers in Sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College\u2019s Career Development Center recently hosted its second annual Careers in Sports Symposium, featuring live presentations from a wide range of professionals in sports. The event provided an opportunity for students with a passion for sports and athletics to learn about different career fields that influence sports. \u201cOur annual sports symposium is a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,7],"tags":[601,1691,1529,2200,2198,2199,197,1350,1517,1152],"class_list":["post-16251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus-community","tag-athletics","tag-career-development","tag-career-development-center","tag-careers-in-athletics","tag-careers-in-sports","tag-careers-in-sports-symposium","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-etown-college","tag-sports","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16256,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251\/revisions\/16256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}