For the summer of 2016, FLG Lacrosse implemented the FLG Lacrosse Summer Internship Program. This is a paid opportunity for collegiate or post-graduate student-athletes. The FLG Summer Internship Program not only assisted FLG Lacrosse’s full-time staff in budgeting, marketing, and running 5 summer lacrosse events, it cultivated lasting working relationships and friendships for those involved. The internship program also holds weekly meetings to discuss individual and team goals. 

Responsibilities Include

Finance & Operations

• Assist finance department with event & team budgets
• Track all relevant expenses for FLG teams, training, and events
• Hotel accommodations and confirmations for individual, and team events
• Organise and maintain inventory of product in storage centre
• Develop, organize, and analyse online customer feedback forms
• Promote FLG select team players, and showcase participants to the public, helping attract attention to their achievements, or highlights

Marketing & Research

• Assist in the production of multiple sports related blogs and publications
• Build FLG’s Long Island Lacrosse Journal in preparation for the Spring High School season
• Develop, target, and send promotional materials for FLG Lacrosse training, teams, and events
• Research information pertaining to the game of lacrosse

Social Media & Outreach

• Spearhead social media efforts for FLG Lacrosse
• Contacting prospecting athletes for FLG Showcase events via phone, email, and social media
• Build Klout on FLG’s social media channels, which include – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, & Google Plus
• Run weekly social media campaigns – contests, countdowns, and highlights
• Monitoring the impact of social media and marketing plans.

Events

• Organise team rosters, waivers, & pertinent data for events.
• Live updates on scores and standings at events
• Live updates in the message centre at events