Assistant High School

Morgan Powell

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Work Experience

Auburn Athletics: Media Relations Student Intern January 2010-

present

Primary responsibility was to schedule, film and edit video interviews for the Auburn athletic website. This was

the first collaborative effort to provide weekly video content for the website that included interviewing and

profiling coaches and athletes of 20 sanctioned Auburn sports, excluding football. Effort by the media relations

staff resulted in increased support for multimedia content on the website and the responsibilities were handed

over to the Auburn Sports Network.

Coordinated and wrote feature articles that have appeared in Tiger Roar, a quarterly all-

sports magazine

distributed to Tigers Unlimited donors. Responsibilities included assigning articles to media relations student

volunteers, interviewing athletes and writing articles

Coordinated and wrote articles for Auburn Football Illustrated, voted Best In Nation for football game day

publications by CoSIDA

Assisted with the production of the 2010 and 2011 Auburn Football media guide and Auburn Football Illustrated.

Responsibilities included coordinating with university organizations and obtaining and editing content, obtaining

and writing football support staff biographies and placing photos using Adobe InDesign.

Produced the 2011-

12 Auburn Women s golf media guide. Designed layout of inside pages, wrote and edited

copy. Layout was in Adobe InDesign

Secondary contact for women s tennis. Responsibilities include writing previews and recaps that are published

on the athletic website, composing match notes, reporting live match results, nominating SEC player and SEC

freshman of the week, updating stats, and assisting with the production of the women s tennis media guide

Assisted with media relations game day duties for football, baseball, softball, men s and women s basketball,

soccer and volleyball. Responsibilities included organizing player interviews, talking with the media, working the

score board for baseball, softball and soccer, reporting game scores, distributing stat books to media,

conducting pre-

game and post-

game interviews with players and coaches. Responsibilities for men s basketball

also included designing and updating flip card

Day-

to-

day responsibilities included arranging football player and football coach interviews with local and

regional media, assisting with the production of press conferences, providing web content for auburnigers.com,

assisting Auburn sports information directors with their day-

to-

day needs, colleting and distributing Auburn daily

press clippings and maintaining the media library

Assistant for Auburn Baseball Recruiting Coordinator, Scott Foxhall February 2009-

present

Collected and inputted information into excel spreadsheets regarding potential Auburn Baseball recruits

Created mailing lists about future and past baseball camps and letters to be sent to prospective players

Coordinated information regarding pre-

game and post-

game player meals

Organized a group of eight and created a schedule for the completion of office hours in which individuals

opened mail and inputted data into the computer. Data included prospective player information, organization of

pre-

game and post-

game meals and putting together mailing lists for baseball camps and letters to be sent to

prospective players

Education Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.

December 12, 2011

Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations

Recipient of the David and Susan Housel Annual Scholarship

Extracurricular Activities

Auburn University Public Relations Council-

Alabama January 2010-

present

The Plainsmen January 2010

Wrote feature articles about Auburn Men s Basketball, Auburn Equestrian and Auburn Gymnastics that were

published in the sports section of the school newspaper

Auburn University Diamond Dolls November 2008-

May 2011

Diamond Dolls Public Relations Executive Officer May 2010-

May 2011

Recruited and interviewed potential Diamond Doll members

Designed and implemented innovative marketing strategies, such as promotional nights and fan-

involvement

activities to enhance the Auburn Baseball game-

day atmosphere

Organized Diamond Doll Parent s Weekend. Responsibilities included securing a location for a Sunday brunch,

finding and working with a catering company to provide food for 60+ people and designing a program

to highlight and explain the strengths of the Diamond Doll organization

Zeta Tau Alpha fraternity August 2007-

May 2010

Zeta Tau Alpha Assistant Reference Chair August 2009

Organized and filed over 2,000 sorority recruitment applications

Created an easier, more organized system for filing application which included assigning a score to each

applicant based on strength of high school GPA, extracurricular activities and relatives associated with the

sorority

Computer Skills

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Roxio Video Weaver,

Filezilla, Microsoft Office and Windows.

For additional information and writing samples please visit my personal website at www.morganpowell.org

References

Mr. Scott Foxhall Baseball Recruiting Coordinator , Auburn University 334-

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Mr. Kirk Sampson Assistant Athletic Director, Auburn University 334-

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Mr. Bob Grant Assistant Director of Media Relations, Auburn University 334-

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