Blog 2 - Summer Mentorship

1. List the contact name, phone number, and organization of the person with whom you volunteered.

- Bob Napoli, (909) 630-4997, AVY Flag Football

2. What qualified this person as an expert in your topic choice?     

- Bob has been in been in the youth sports organizations for many years either as a coach or an owner of a company. Has has coached Little League Baseball, and has worked at San Dimas High School as the Freshman Football Head Coach and Assistant Coach on the Varsity Team. He also is the founder of AVY Flag Football. Originally Bob created a flag football league in San Dimas with the backing of the youth sports organization i9 Sports. After a few seasons, he broke off from the company and created his own naming it All Valley Youth (AVY) Flag Football. Bob turned his bushiness in to a league that not only had hundreds of sign ups a year in his own city, but pulled players as far as Rancho Cucamonga to play in his league. Each season turns a profit, as through his years in experience he mastered the art of limiting costs and still having families sign up for his league year after year.

3. List three questions for further exploration now that you've completed your summer hours.

- What form of advertising would bring in the most people to a business?

- Does subcontracting through cities provide greater benefits for a youth sports company or does independence benefit the most?

- How can a small business expand to new cities without cutting into its current customer pool?

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

- The most important thing I gained from this summer would be having to work on my own but constantly be checking up on other people's work. This may sound like a facilitators job in a group project it is a different dynamic when you are minor having to constantly be proving to people you deal with that you are mature enough to deal with city contracts and sending in grown men in for back ground checks in through the Sheriffs Department when I'm not even old enough to be check myself. Although I was given a general direction of what needs to be done from my mentor, he left it completely up to me on how to finish the job. 

5. What is your senior project topic going to be?  How did mentorship help you make your decision?  Please explain.

- My Senior Project Topic will be the Managing and Ownership of a Youth Sports Organization. Being apart of youth sports since I was a child, and learning from there how to coach and run a team on my own I feel being in charge and pushing the organization to expand and become something more people can be apart of is the next step for me. My mentor helped me along with this decision by showing me the ropes of the organization as I got older and over time relying on me to do much of the work that is commonly only for the Commissioner to do. This summer has proved to me that running youth sports is something I enjoy doing and would like to be apart of for years to come.

Senior Project Hours Log:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sBlTuP60DO3mMRVcwwRT1jCHa66-EQt6Gy3ixr3a61g/edit?usp=sharing