Calvin Student Interns for Mud Hens

August 2, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

A Calvin senior is spending the summer working as an intern for the Toledo Mud
Hens, an internship he landed through the college's new sports management
concentration.

Dean Exoo, 21, a sports management major who hails from Whitinsville,
Massachusetts, is working for the Triple-A club, the top farm team for the
Detroit Tigers.

"I love sports, so it's great to be able to work with a professional sports
team and see what that's like," says Exoo, who works in the operations
department, doing general maintenance for the team facility and overseeing
ticket takers and ushers. "A lot of what we do is to make the games run
smoothly."

Exoo says he can easily work 12-hour days when the team is in town. In fact his
first week on the job he put in 75 hours!

The sports management program, which debuted in the fall of 2005, is one of
three possible concentrations (exercise science and teacher education are the
others) for physical education majors. Exoo's job with the Mud Hens is the first
internship offered through the program.

"A previous student of mine interned at the Mud Hens," says physical education
professor Jim Timmer, who taught and coached in Cleveland prior to coming to
Calvin. "He said send me your best one, and we sent him Dean."

Timmer hopes to develop internships for the concentration in every area of
sports management, including broadcasting, private health club management and
both college and professional sports.

An internship in sports management field accomplishes a number of things for a
student like Exoo, says Timmer.

"It gives them an inside look. It gives them a great networking ability. And it
applies what they learn in class. If I'm teaching something outdated, they can
come back to me and say, 'Coach, this is how they do it.'"

Exoo, who is this year's recipient of the Dave Tuuk Sports Management
Scholarship, hopes his internship is a springboard to a job in professional
sports.

For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/mud_hens.htm

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Received on Wed Aug 2 15:07:15 2006