Week 6 - William Gates - Cycling/HWC

Cycling Week 6

Week 6 at the Cycling internship involved learning about the credit card process and how Cycling relates financial information to the Athletics Department. There are many emails and phone calls between the cycling offices and the Athletics Department because there are often times forms of miscommunication with papers that are sometimes lost. I think that it is something that is rather regular because there are filing and receipt questions. Often times, Coach Grigsby has had to search for random receipts because Beth from Athletics has called him to ask for a receipt from the past season and the expenses.

I have continued my quest for finishing my video projects, along with contacting potential recruits. It is a good couple projects to keep me going. It's a great atmosphere to be around and I love the inviting feel of the offices and how welcome I have been to work with the team.

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HWC Week 6

Week 6 of the internship at the wellness center involved sending out more sponsorship letters and letters requesting donations from companies. We have received a few responses back from companies, but nothing major yet. One of the issues that we have been dealing with is the scale for measuring weight because it seems to be rather inaccurate at times, so it gives us a hard time when trying to get accurate measurements. However, during week three of the program, we lost over 80 pounds as a group. There were two people who dropped out of the program, so we are down to 34 participants from 36 participants.

It was also the second full week of the Couch-2-5K program and it was pretty successful despite the weather, which was horrific, since it was the Saturday that had a crazy lightning storm. We were unable to do a workout outside, so I held a core workout for the group instead.

It was a mental challenge when I received the news that people were dropping out. In a way I took it personally, but had to realize that it was not personal towards me, they just could not commit and decided to drop out for their own reasons. We are down about 250 pounds going into the fourth week.