Josiah Blevins - Introduction

My name is Josiah Blevins and I am a junior here at Bowling Green.  I plan on graduating in August of next year though by taking summer classes and doing my internship this summer.  I am a sport management major with a minor in business.  My plan is to attend graduate school after I complete my undergrad in athletic administration.   After that I would like to be an athletic director at the high school level.  My dream job would be to be the high school athletic director at my former high school.

I am from Brighton Michigan, which is about an hour and fifteen minutes north of here.  Brighton is also just about twenty minutes north of Ann Arbor.  For that reason I am a big Michigan fan.  In high school I played football for four years, mostly playing offensive line throughout my high school career.  At the recreational level I also played soccer, basketball, and baseball.  My favorite sports teams are any Detroit team as well as the Michigan Wolverines.  My favorite team is the Detroit Lions.  I have been a HUGE fan ever since I can remember.  It was tough being a Lions fan for many years but now it looks like they have finally turned things around. 

The female athlete I most like to see compete is Alex Morgan.  I just found out about her last year during the Women’s World Cup, at the time she mostly just came off the bench.  In that tournament she showed a lot of heart and helped the US in many situations of the bench.  Now this year I got the chance to watch her again, this time in the Olympics.  She impressed me again this year with her abilities to make play not only for herself but also for her teammates.

The male athlete I would pay to see would be Michael Phelps.  One reason I would like to see him compete is because he is the greatest Olympian of all time.  He also proved many people wrong this year and won many events even though many people doubted him.  The other thing I like about him is his personality; even though he is not the nicest guy he is very entertaining to me.

The only concern I have for this class is that people will not participate in the discussion.  In other classes I have had this problem and it lead to the class, which is mostly discussion based not being that interesting.  This though I do not think will be an issue because so far the discussions in this class have gone well.