introduction

My name is Trent Ringle, I am a senior here at BGSU in my last semester. I am from the small town of Norwalk, Ohio that is about 15 minutes away from Cedar Point. At Norwalk, I was a three-sport athlete participating in football, wrestling, and track in 2007 I went to state in track. Sport Management is not the major I am taking. I am a Telecommunication major doing a support field in Sport Management. Even though I am not a SM major, I feel that in this course sports and gender I will able to contribute to our discussions because of my background in sports.

In my own opinion, I define sports as a physical activity one participates in where they exert a certain amount of force to do so. When this is the case, I believe that an activity can be classified as a true sport. When thinking of what male and female athlete I would like to see participate in their respected sports I would choose Kevin Durant and Abby Wambach. The reason I pick Abby Wambach is that I viewed her performance against China in the Women’s World Cup. After looking her up and reading about her I really like the dedication an amount of passion she puts forth in the sport she plays. The male athlete Kevin Durant has been a player I have followed for a while. When he played at Texas, I thought he was a great college basketball player and his skill level always seems to be one level up from his opponents.

In an overall conclusion, I am very eager and excited for this course to get underway. I think it is a very interesting topic that we will be talking about and look forward to seeing where the course leads us.