The Bergami Summer Internships Blog
May 20, 2018
As I began to search for an internship for the summer, I knew that I wanted to do one in intercollegiate athletics. I expressed this to my softball coach, and I was fortunate enough to have her help me contact colleges in the area. When the opportunity to do my internship at Central Connecticut State University arose I was thrilled.
Central is known as a top school in Connecticut, and I was excited to have the opportunity to learn what college athletics is like within the Division I atmosphere. More specifically, my site supervisors, Amy Strickland and Molly McCarthy, are two very knowledgeable women in the area of college athletics as a whole, as well as specifically in compliance. From the moment I met them, I knew that I was going to be able to learn a lot from them as well as develop a good relationship with them.
My expectations of this internship are high, and I know that the more I put into it the more that I will get out of it. I hope to learn what it is like to work in a college athletic department. I hope to have a deeper understanding of all the different areas of NCAA compliance rules and regulations as well as learn about the NCAA initial and transfer eligibility rules.
I also simply hope to learn what it is like to work within a college athletics department, and experience daily interactions with other staff, interns, and coaches. At the end of this internship, I hope to have a better idea of whether or not college athletics, and more specifically compliance, is what I want to pursue as a career after college.
Whether or not compliance is the area that I want to go into or not, the knowledge that I’ll learn will be beneficial to me in other positions within college athletics and will be beneficial if I ever have the opportunity to coach softball at the collegiate level.
I believe that this internship will allow me to create connections with others in college athletics, which I think will be very important in the future.Maddy Derosia ’19, Sport Management
The Bergami Summer Internship Program is funded through the generosity of Board of Governors member – and former Board Chair – Sam Bergami ’85 EMBA and his wife, Lois, and the Division of Student Affairs. The students are blogging about the experience throughout the summer.
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