Interview Write-Up

My first interview summary is one of literary history and its surrounding aspects.

My sports admin interviewee is a college student majoring in English. His literary history begins inconspicuously with him starting to read surrounded by a family that revels in reading and academics. Dr. Seuss, as with so many others, resonates as his first book experiences. Transitioning to elementary, this school era translates to an excelling in academics where reading and writing are seen as a passion to cultivate. Unfortunately this era comes to an end with the start of middle and high school, as the sports admin shifts to a focus on athletics that diminishes his love for the literary world. When asked of the difficulties in combining the sports world with his academic world, the sports admin believes it was his incapability to balance both and one overtook the other. It was only until college that a catalyst was enacted in the form of one professor, Dr. Montes. It is with Dr. Montes' inspiration that the sports admin is able to change his outlook and begin a successful merging of both his literary and sports culture. A new horizon was forming for the sports admin, as it was at this time he changed his major to English and is now considering a future in grad school with a Masters in either Sports Administration and/or English. The sports admin dream will be to one day merge the two into a successful career as a sports journalism, thus bringing two spectrums into one. Such a passion for both fields is evident as the sports admin speaks, with his emphatic notion that it is possible "to use one to understand" the other. This symbiotic relationship is evident throughout his personal literary history as he describes reading "How Soccer Explains the World" and delves into how it is possible to utilize sports to understand economics, society - in his words, to find "the deeper  meaning of sports". At a happy medium in his life, the sports admin has reached a meaningful point in the arch of his literary history - successfully blending together a passion for sports and an ingrained family culture of literacy.