Hi my name is Kane Godfrey, I am a junior at Bowling Green State University and study in Sports Management. I want to minor in Marketing and focus on that when I graduate. My dream job would be to work for Nike or Under Armour and market for one of these companies. The reason I chose to go into the sports industry is because sports has always been a part of my life. I have participated in football, basketball, and baseball from a young age, until I graduated high school. Recently I have picked up golf and I enjoy golfing during the summers. I have also found great interest in competitive fishing, and have started a competitive fishing club team at BGSU. The team is very eager to participate in a league that has been formed for college anglers to compete in fishing collegefishing.com.
The female athlete that I would pay to go watch participate would be Diana Taurasi. Diana is one of the greatest female basketball stars that I have ever seen play. When she was on the Uconn Huskies team I really enjoyed watching them play. She is a very great scorer, inside and out. She also is a great team player and shares the ball well. I have always like watching the Uconn girls team play because they always have great success until this year when they played a very tough Baylor team with Brittney Griner. I believe that the WNBA deserves more attention than they receive. With all the great players that already are in the league and some of the ones that will be in the league soon they should get more attention.
The male athlete that I chose to pick in class was Tom Brady. After thinking about this after class I decided to change my male athlete. The person that I would pay the most money to see in their sport would have been Muhammad Ali. After talking a lot about Muhammad Ali last semester in my history and philosophy class I am a big fan of him. He was, in my opinion, the greatest boxer ever. Not only was he a great boxer he was a great role model for African Americans at the time and stood up for himself. He was a huge part in breaking the color barrier in America. I wish I was alive when he was boxing because that would have been an amazing thing to see. Also going along with this Happy 70th Birthday to Muhammad Ali, today is his birthday!
For this class I am honestly very excited to learn more about gender in sports. After looking over the readings that we have to do each and every one of them sounds interesting to me and I am excited for the class discussions over them.
Godfrey I think it is awesome that you started a competitive fishing club here at BGSU. I grew up close to Lake Erie and every summer I go out probably 10 times if not more fishing on my grandfather’s boat. Fishing is not what most people would think of as your typical sport, however a lot goes into fishing both mental and physically. With both of these aspects, it can be labeled as a sport especially competitive fishing. Where about have you gone fishing since you started this club?
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