@SJUSportsMkting Student Profile: Courtney Rowan

Courtney Rowan is a freshman sports marketing major at SJU and also a manager at the SJU women’s basketball team. In this blog post Courtney talks about her experience as a manager and how women’s basketball team became A10 conference champions on March 17, 2013:

“Being the manager of any sports team sounds like the ideal job. Fortunately, for me, I can proudly say I am one of the managers for the women’s varsity basketball team here at Saint Joe’s. This past Saturday, the team won the Atlantic-10 Championship, which reassured them a ticket to the “big dance”. After all of the countless hours spent at Hagan arena, the smiles on the girls faces were priceless. 

It may sound like all fun and games, but being a manager is a lot of hard work and dedication. Being a manager, I am required to attend/set up for practice, assist the coaches in anyway possible, manage the bench during games, fill out stat charts, and many other little jobs. The jobs may sound tedious, but it is all worth it. The players and coaches treat us managers like we are true D-1 athletes.

It has been so rewarding watching the girls practice day in and day out, and see them come out on top of the A-10. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us this upcoming weekend. Let’s hope we dance our way through March! THWND!”