Florida Atlantic University Athletics
Students at the Forefront of Game Promotions
1/11/2013 12:00:00 AM | General
Jan. 11, 2013
As I was sitting working in the office, editing video, the marketing department at FAU Athletics asked me one of the most bizarre questions.
"Would you like to participate in a fastest burrito eating competition?" After saying yes, I realized the bizarre situation I got myself into. I had just agreed to put my eating prowess to the test and against three grown men.
The bizarre question wasn't clear yet, but knowing FAU athletics always has the best for students in mind. I wasn't worried.
I have had the opportunity to experience the departmental 2012 changes, easily described as a year or transition for the department.
In 2012 alone, a new Athletics Director, new football staff, volleyball staff, women's basketball staff, and four external people have been hired. The total is a little more 40 new employees.
It would be easy for the department to turn its cheek, ignore the students and focus on their own situations. But, they don't. They always have the students as their top priority.
Think about the football games. There was always a promotion that included the students. Students who need art for their walls only need to go as far as an athletic venue to pick up a poster. And it's always something, the partnership between athletics and FAU Student Government and or the Student Alumni Association make the game atmosphere great. Sometimes it's posters sometimes it is T-Shirts or Rally Towels. This Monday at the FAUSportsPage Radio Show, originating at Hooters (Boca Raton) it is Destroy Troy T-Shirts.
Once you are at the games there is almost always student driven contest and or entertainment. Next week students have a chance to win an iPad Mini! That is in addition to the musical shootout or random free throw challenges. And this is where the "bizarre question" came in. The marketing staff was testing a possible contest for later this season.
Students should be really excited for 2013 and the growth the Owls future growth. At FAU, we are a part of the growth process, where our in-state counterparts don't have a chance to help build. They are simply a part of the results. I see being a student at FAU as an opportunity to be a part of and experience building something special.
So take advantage, be a part of it, start eating the burritos, make a quilt out of towels, and collecting those T-Shirts, because in a decade or two, that memorabilia will be worth a lot.
And yes, I did win that burrito eating contest.
Ginette Javier
Student Video Coordinator
