3A - My Entrepreneurial Story

My entrepreneurship story focuses around my senior year of high school. For background, though I am not athletic, I have always been extremely into sports. So much so that many people have referred to me as a “sports encyclopedia” through the years. In college, I am majoring in Sport Management. My high school has a morning television show that focuses on announcements and other information that, honestly looking back, could have been distributed in a less time-consuming manner. I never had an affiliation with the production program, but as an active participant and officer of my high school’s theatre, I knew many people who were involved with the morning television show. 

            Beginning my freshmen year, I noticed that the “sports segment” on the morning show was, to say the least, lacking. It consisted of the anchors simply reading off the scores occasionally accompanied by a ten second summary of the game. It was maybe 3 or 4 times a year that there was ever any footage of the actual games/meets that took place. So, at the start of my senior year, I created a sports segment. I spoke with the director/instructor of the morning television program and came up with a strategy to integrate this totally new segment for the news show. I was given a few other underclassmen to work with, and together we came up with many new segments. We now had videos to accompany most varsity sports, and also did deeper dives for each team prior to the start of the season. Additionally, we collated the highlights from each game and created archives that could be accessed at later dates.

While this photo is not of me, capturing game footage was a large part of what I did  in creating a sports segment

            This was my first time having to create something of that scale completely from scratch. It was a very tough and time-consuming project, and though it was not completely successful, it provided me with many tips and tools on how to act as an entrepreneur. 

            To be honest, I enrolled in ENT3003 because it was recommended to me by my academic advisor. However, now that I am in the class, I can tell just how many life skills this class is going to provide me. I hope to get as many of these as possible out of this class. Though I do not foresee a future in which I create my own company from scratch, learning about entrepreneurial skills will help me all throughout the rest of my life.