The Temple hosts the National Sports Public Relations Conference – The Temple News

Chris Adams was at a crossroads in 2015. The new Jersey native has recently graduated from Rutgers and realized the next steps in the best way a 22-year-old could. He obtained a job as an office administrator at SMG Sportsplex in Metuchen, New Jersey, while working on a summer camp and everything went according to plan.

However, life has had other plans.

Adams’s father died tragically, sending his life in a spiral. She moved back home to South Jersey to help her family, leaving her job in this process. He blocked, Adams tried to figure out what to do before a friend gave him a helping hand.

“It is not what I proposed to do when I graduated from college. I was doing sports, I didn’t do what I like, so it was a hard time,” Adams said. “You wouldn’t know. I look at my Facebook friend Messenger from the college with whom I didn’t play basketball, I didn’t play sports, but this is someone I met through another friend. He sent me messages: ‘Hey, Chris, I’m not sure what you do, but you know, there is this new job at Sixers, who just opened. “

Adams took the job with the 76 years and never looked behind, working from an office service coordinator to the team development manager. He was one of many speakers who talked about his experiences during the game of the public student of the Temple in America: PR in the sports conference on Saturday.

The event was the National Conference of the PSSA Mid-Atlantic District, one of the eight conferences of the PRSSA district. The two -day event hosted a multitude of schools in the area, including Messiah University, Arcadia University and Delaware University. Temple requested the host in August 2024 and was announced as one of the rayon sites in October 2024.

“At the beginning of October we received an Email saying that we are elected,” said the rayon conference coordinator, Elena Erdley. “Then, from there, he entered us, receiving rooms, to realize how many things we needed, what hours of work and starting to bring together our sponsorship package.”

The weekend started with a welcome event on Friday night, with words from the vice -president of the PSSA National Committee of Events and Funds, Alicia Caraciolo. The student at the University of South Carolina spoke with participants not much younger than her about her experiences that put their foot in the door in the industry.

Whether she took pictures at the end of the Four Four, the Basketball of the 2024 female college, doing the garbage duty at the College Playoff National Football Championship or wrote a recap for her student newspaper, the feeling of Caraciolo remained the same – to take advantage of every opportunity.

This theme remained throughout the rest of the conference. The next day he started with a woman in the sports panel. There, the Temple teacher, Lauren Bullock, spoke about the appreciation of Claire Smith, Lauren Templin and Mia Nardone. It was less a question and answer, but more of a discussion about almost three different generations of sports women, who discuss their experiences.

Smith talked about how her mother rooted an affinity for Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, before she was born. The player’s choice fits, because Robinson and Smith have become trailblazers themselves, with Robinson Breaking Barrier of MLB and Smith becoming the first woman who was a full -time MLB reporter.

Templin remembered his experiences as a sports information director at the University of Pennsylvania. Like Adams, she was not sure of what she wanted to do when she was at school, moving from the culinary school to the Niagara University. The Templin currently supervises communications for six quaker sports and has to deal with the personalities that each brings.

“[The coaches] are all different personalities. Everyone is very scary, “said Templin.” I noticed that I talk to me differently than I talk to my manic counterparts. I accepted that it is.

From there, the conference participants spent the rest of the time playing an adventure game Choose-Te-Awour -wn. The participants chose which of the four interruption sessions they wanted to participate in; There were four in the morning and four more after -Amia.

Each speaker was on each side of the currency when he came to the world of sport. Adams spoke about the involvement of fans in his role with the 76 years. He was the host in the game of Coats Delaware Blue, while working essentially in the mail and working on the scale. Templin and speaking colleague Shane Ramsey, communications coordinator with Philadelphia Eagles, deals with the communication with the media.

Other speakers have reached the marketing of the team on social networks. Miyah Sizer works as a social coordinator for Philadelphia Eagles and spoke about the daily marketing of Super Bowl defending champions.

However, every person was human and the love of the sport propelled to where they are now.

Like almost every child, Ramsey grew up wanting to be like Lebron James, but those dreams were quickly rooted. Sizer was a female basketball player at the Nazareth College and did not shy away from her battles with imposter syndrome, but she exceeded it to build her way.

“I always tell my fiancé:” We are not a hip. So no one will be perfect, “said Sizer. “We are not perfect people. It is good to strive for perfection. Obviously, perfection is always the goal, but we can also not be so hanging to be perfect all the time, because that will never be the case. Something will come and make mistakes.”