{"id":229,"date":"2019-06-26T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/?p=229"},"modified":"2019-06-26T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T13:19:30","slug":"from-a-royal-to-a-husky-a-summer-with-uconn-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/2019\/06\/26\/from-a-royal-to-a-husky-a-summer-with-uconn-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Royal to a Husky: A Summer with UConn Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are numerous career paths that a student enrolled in an Exercise Science Program may choose to pursue. As someone who has always had an interest in health and fitness, a potential career path that appealed to me was in the field of Strength and Conditioning. This interest, along with assistance from The Royal Experience Summer Internship Program, has afforded me the opportunity to spend my summer in Storrs, Connecticut as a Strength and Conditioning Intern with The University of Connecticut Men\u2019s Basketball Program.<\/p>\n

Some of my daily tasks include weight room setup and breakdown, pre\/intra\/post workout nutrition preparation, and exercise demonstration \u2013 all of which have allowed me to gain \u201chands on experience\u201d in the field of strength and conditioning. In comparison to most sports, a basketball roster is relatively small; it is almost as if I am working with each athlete individually, providing motivation and positive reinforcement.<\/p>\n

In addition to the \u201chands on experience\u201d comes the wealth of knowledge I have learned and hope to continue to learn throughout the duration of my internship. Interning under Coach Sal Alosi is as good as it gets, as he has been a Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at both the professional level (NFL) and for various sports at the collegiate level. The ability to intern and study under a coach who has \u201cexperienced it all\u201d has both solidified my desire to work in the field of Strength and Conditioning, and set me up for success in my future career path.<\/p>\n

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Weight room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Myself prior to day beginning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nutrition preparation \u2013 top three shelves are stocked each day \/ bottom four shelves are the shakes made each day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blake Hammert
\nExercise Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are numerous career paths that a student enrolled in an Exercise Science Program may choose to pursue. As someone who has always had an interest in health and fitness, a potential career path that appealed to me was in the field of Strength and Conditioning. This interest, along with assistance from The Royal Experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/careerservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}