by Assistant Coach Joe Eby
I have two big projects that I am working on at WSU right now. The first and probably the most important one is getting a hold of or trying to organize our alumni list. This is a huge undertaking because we have not done a very good job in the past of keeping track of our alumni database. This means that there are several different lists that we have to combine or make heads or tails of and then we have to find the most efficient way of communicating with our alumni. This is all in the early stages and we keep coming up with great ideas, which end up leading to dead ends or severe detours. I am bound and determined to get this figured out. As getting our alumni connected and engaged can help take our program to a whole new level if done properly.
The second project is trying to learn the ropes of meet management “shocker style” and trying to take some pressure off of Coach Wise and open him up to focus more on coaching and recruiting. We just sent out invites to the top High School athletes in the area to run at one of our meets. We are going to have High School sections of 60m, 60m Hurdles, 400m and mile at the Varsity Apartment Invitational on February 4th. This is something new and we hope that it helps bring some excitement to our indoor meet.
Hopefully we will see a lot of over lap between these two projects as we hope to include Alumni events in conjunction with our meets, such as VIP areas and Alumni socials after each meet.
