Getting Ready for Iowa

Monday-Holiday
Tuesday: 9-4:30
Wednesday: 10:30-12:30, 3:30-5:00
Thursday: 9-5
Friday: 9-5

This week was used to get prepared for a meet against the University of Iowa with updating notes, Soonersports.com and distributing the media guides to other universities and news organizations.

Last week, the gymnastics team and I traveled to the Rocky Mountain Open to take on Air Force, Nebraska and various club teams. The team won and it was a great way to start off the season. It was difficult to get the press release out after the meet because the facility we were in did not have a wireless connection and the wireless card that I received didn’t work. I had to rush back to the hotel to get it up on Soonerposrts.com and out to the media as fast as I could. Needless to say, it was a hectic night.

This week was a busy one with Monday being Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I had to do the entire web updating Tuesday morning before starting my notes for the meet. Each week after a meet I have to pos the scores for our gymnasts on a website called Troester and that ranks the individual gymnasts and teams for the NCAA to use. After doing all of the updating, I began preparing my notes for the upcoming meet with Iowa. In my notes is all of the information that I or any other media person could need for writing about the meet. Past records, results, opponent preview and quick little facts that could help a fellow media relations person know about your team. I also received my media guides this week from the printer. I had to distribute these guides to all of our opponents and local media. Before leaving, I also had to post a meet preview on Soonersports.com. It can hopefully provide a Oklahoma fan the information on the meet or make gymnastics fans out of them.

After doing all of this I was ready for the trip. Today we are traveling on an executive sleeper bus to Iowa and it has satellite TV, sleeper beds, tables and it is very comfortable. It is kind of cool being able to travel with the team again this year. The ride is rough though because he is on his phone – hope he doesn’t kill us.

Next week, we will battle TEXAS.

I will write about the Iowa meet and preparations for the Texas on the next blog.