The Super Bowl of sport management experiences is, well, working at the Super Bowl. Eleven Slippery Rock University students did just that, serving as staff workers at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans.
The group worked Feb. 7-9 at the NFL Super Bowl Experience presented by Panini. As the NFL’s “football theme park,” the Super Bowl Experience featured interactive games, and opportunities for fans to get star player autographs and photos with the Super Bowl rings and the Vince Lombardi Trophy, as well as merchandise from the NFL Shop.
On game day, Feb. 9, the group provided wayfinding information and escorted the more than 2,000 credentialed media to the media workroom, the photographers’ staging area and workroom, the auxiliary press area and the press box.
The students included:
- Emma Balaban, a junior sport management major from North Huntington.
- Zander Bennett, a junior sport management major from Mahaffey.
- Aaron Chaplin, a junior sport management major from Altoona.
- Brent Martin, a senior sport management major from Greencastle.
- Nick Mote, a senior sport management major from Gibsonia.
- Niko O’Toole, a senior sport management major from Pittsburgh.
- Mikayla Perry, a junior sport management major from Hamburg, New York.
- Morgan Rullo, a senior sport management major from Cairnbrook.
- Ethan Sarver, a senior sport management major from Prospect.
- Bree Weaver, a sophomore sport management major from Blanchard.
- Joseph Young, a junior sport management major from Winchester, Virginia.
Joining the students as chaperones were Brian Crow, professor of sport management; Dallas Kline, assistant director of first-year admissions and 2019 sport management alumnus, and Paul Lueken, retired SRU director of athletics.
More information about the SRU sport management program is available on the program’s webpage.
