Hello fellow blogger and classmates! I am Megan Meade and I am a Sport Management with a minor in Marketing. I have just recently switched my minor from Spanish to Marketing. I choose to switch because I love the Spanish language but I did not like learning it in the classroom. I am from Grove City, Ohio. Grove City is 15 minutes south of Columbus, Ohio for those of you who don’t know. Living very close to Columbus I have been raised Buckeye. I have pictures of me wearing Ohio State attire practically right out of the hospital. Then have ever since followed and loved them. My first memory of watching the Buckeyes came during the 1995 season with Eddie George. I remember when he ran everyone would shout EDDIE! Ever since he has been one of my favorite athletes and I followed him up until he retired.
My biggest sport passion not as a fan would be soccer. I love the sport of soccer. I have played for many years starting at the age of 8. Ever since that age I made it my life. Starting at the age of 13 I played year round up until I graduated high school. June to November would be high school and then December to June I would play with Grove City Futbol Club. Once I graduated high school I made a big decision not to play anymore and choose a bigger school away from my hometown. I was bummed until I realized I did not have to hang up my cleats quite yet. My freshman year I started playing Club soccer here, I also participate on different summer league teams. Although it is not year around I still love it. Now to make up for not playing as much I officiate for high school teams in northwest Ohio. This has been a great chance to make a little extra cash, stay involved with soccer and also meet many different athletic directors and coaches. I have also started coaching with an area recreation team. Like I said I love the sport of soccer! It will always be part of my life. I also hope that I can start working for a soccer team. My true dream would to start over in England then come back here but who knows?
Besides soccer I enjoy watching every sport, some more than others. I have been raised in a household that loves sports. We always would watch many different sporting events together as a family. Sport often times would be what we based our family vacation around. Football, soccer, baseball and NASCAR…yes NASCAR, has always been our favorites in our household. Once the Columbus Blue Jackets came to town we started to watch more hockey games too. I am a Cincinnati Bengals fan and can only remember a couple winning seasons. One of the winning seasons I got to go to a game and watch the Bengals beat the Giants and Eli Manning. It was the day after Christmas and freezing but it was worth it. We stick with Cincinnati when it comes to baseball also. We go to many Reds games over their seasons because we live about an hour and 15 minutes away. This makes it easy to make it a day trip. I have always had the opportunity to go to Columbus Crew games since they were so close, I had many birthdays there.I loved going and watching Brian McBride but when he left we stopped going to as many games and I kind of regret not going. Once hockey came to town we now attend many of those games and they are a ton of fun. When hockey came it was one thing that inspired me to go into Sport Management. I want to work with a team to create that atmosphere that they do for their fans. I have gone to different games on all different levels of sport. I will always remember my favorite game. Even though the outcome was not that great I will never forget this experience. The game was the 2008 OSU vs. Penn State. This was a great experience with such a festive atmosphere. I believe that night we set the record attendance in the shoe. A chance to be in the same stadium as Joe Pa too is great because he is a great coach and motivator.
Lastly, I have gotten experience many things but one thing I really want to do is to go to an Ohio State/ Michigan game. I want to go to the game at The Shoe and the Big House. This has always been my goal and I will do everything to achieve it. These teams both bring lot of tradition to college football. I hope when I do go to the game it is back to being one of the most important games of the year.
Watching college football has always made me want to be involved with sport. I just had to decide where the best place for me would be. At first I wanted to be in sport journalism but because of my lack of desire to write all the time and not be an excellent writer I did not think that was were I belonged. I then found Bowling Green's program and over these past years I have learned there are assortment of opportunities for sport management majors. I have been doing many different things in sport to find out what I like to do most. I have volunteered with the ticket office. This summer I also have done some guest production work with Curves, a womens workout facility. I have decided that I really want to work with the community and bring them more into the game so anywhere with community relations or ticketing/promotions is my desired position.
I really feel like I have so much more to say...but told you so much. I look foward to learning more about sport as I hardly know any history.

¡Eso es todo tengo que decir!! ¡Adiós!

Megan Meade