“I did a little bit of everything,” Alston said. “I set up drills for practice, handled a lot of the away game stuff like organizing the uniforms, packing up all the cones and soccer balls, getting players the socks and cleats they wanted, and a lot of pregame and postgame stuff with their meals.”
“I was pretty much the team photographer for two years,” Barry said. “I traveled with them occasionally. It gave me a lot of creative freedom, I did a lot of graphics work, I designed t-shirts, and I helped out at clinics. I had a lot of experiences beyond what I thought I wanted to do and helped my career path evolve.”
For the former managers, even if they weren’t going to work in sports after college, the experience helped set them up for success.
“Having it on my resume that I worked at South Carolina gave me that foot in the door,” Kanuch said. “It’s a lot of the same work, but as you move up you get more responsibilities. It laid the groundwork of the day to day for what my job now is. I love it. I’m around the team every day, I get to travel, and it’s not a desk job.”
“I would go to all of the early morning practices, and we had late nights on game nights, and then had to create social media content after the game,” Denson said. “That taught me how the sports industry is such a unique work environment. It’s not always nine-to-five. I never would have known that without this experience at South Carolina. It helped me mentally prepare for what was to come.”
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