Interview of Dawnyelle Awa

Dawnyelle Awa is a student-athlete at Washington State University for the women’s basketball team. I had the pleasure of interviewing on April 21, 2016, just a couple of weeks before she is graduating. She has been on the WSU women’s basketball team for all four years of her undergraduate career and has started almost every single game in that span. She is majoring in Sport Management and hopes to find a career in coaching or athletic administration, either as a head basketball coach or athletic director. She is a very interesting people to get to know and has many fun and interesting experiences to tell. She is from Hawaii and has traveled the globe because of WSU women’s basketball, including places like Puerto Rico, Europe and across the United States.

My interview with her was great because we are already friends and it was more of an informal conversation, which was nice to have in the beautiful Pullman sunshine. Dawnyelle is very calm, nice, and intelligent person who is easy to have a conversation with and works very hard in school. She can come off as a shy person, but she is very happy making new friends and having fun. I learned many cool things about Dawnyelle that I did not know, including information about her travels to Europe and her favorite memories as a Washington State University basketball player. Based on what I have learned about her over the last semester, it seems to me that she will be very successful in her future career, wherever that may be.

Outlook of SPMGT 379

My outlook of Sport Management 379 (Sport Media and Communication) at Washington State University is good and I am excited to learn about the how to use media in different ways in the sport industry. My expectations are to learn more about different types of media, like websites, social media, and other materials that relate to communication in the sport industry. Learning about social media is a large expectation because it is so relevant in today’s popular media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Creating a simple website throughout the semester should be an interesting process because like most assignments in this class, I have never done something like that before. Media and communication in a business setting in somewhat new to me and I look forward to learning more about media.

The various projects of the course, including the video clips and the mock press conference, should be fun to create and relate well to the field of sport media and communication. The mock press conference that we will complete at the end of the semester seems very interesting to me because I have not done anything like it before in my academic career. The idea of creating a news release and giving a press conference about it is different, but practical to the sport media part of the industry. The expectation of the class, including logistics and rules, are reasonable and understandable to allow the course to run smoothly and effectively. SPMGT 379 does not seem boring or uninteresting and ordinary class days are interactive, which makes the material more interesting.