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Sport Management Internship Site Directory
* Note: Internships are not restricted to the state of Ohio. They can also be taken during the summer anywhere in the country and abroad, as long as Otterbein University's internship requirements are fulfilled.
Professional Sports: (Major and Minor Leagues) Akron Aeros AA Baseball (Cleveland Indians) Akron Rubber Ducks AA Baseball (Cleveland Indians – formerly Akron Aeros) Altoona Curve (PA) AA Baseball (Pittsburg Pirates) Arizona Cardinals NFL Football (Phoenix, AZ) Barcelona Alaves Soccer (Barcelona, Spain) Camden Riversharks Atlantic League Professional Baseball Canton Crocodiles/Coyotes Frontier League Baseball (Cleveland Indians) Canton Legends AIFA (American Indoor Football) Cincinnati Bengals Football Cincinnati Cyclones Ice Hockey Cincinnati Jungle Kats Arena Football Cincinnati Silverbacks Soccer Cincinnati Reds Baseball Cincinnati Riverhawks Soccer Cincinnati Mighty Ducks Ice Hockey Cincinnati Marshalls (Swarm) Arena Football Cincinnati Steam AAA Baseball Chicago – Schaumburg Boomers AAA Frontier League Baseball Chillocothe Paints AAA Frontier League Baseball (college baseball league) Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Cleveland Barons American League Ice Hockey Cleveland Lumberjacks Ice Hockey Cleveland Browns Football Cleveland Gladiators Arena Football Cleveland Indians Baseball Cleveland Crunch/Force Soccer Cleveland Rockers Women’s National Basketball Association Columbus Condors Central Basketball Association Columbus Crew Soccer Columbus Destroyers Arena Football Columbus Comets/Flash Women’s Football Columbus Cyclones International Basketball League Columbus Stars Minor League Ice Hockey Columbus Stars Minor League Soccer Columbus Clippers AAA Baseball (Cleveland Indians) Columbus Hawks Inline Roller Hockey Columbus Blue Jackets Ice Hockey (formerly Columbus Chill) Columbus Landsharks Lacrosse Dallas Cowboys Football Dayton Ice Bandits Ice Hockey Dayton Bombers AA East Coast Ice Hockey 2 Dayton Dragons A Minor League Baseball (Cincinnati Reds) Dayton Silverbacks (formerly Miami Valley ) CIFL (Continental Indoor Football League) Delaware Cows Collegiate Baseball Club Great Lakes Loons A Baseball (LA Dodgers; Midland MI) High Desert Mavericks A Baseball (Seattle Mariners, Adelento, CA) Iowa Cubs AAA Baseball Kalamazoo Kings IHL – Ice Hockey (Kalamazoo, MI) Lake County Captains A Baseball - Cleveland Indians (Eastlake, OH) Lake Erie Crushers Frontier League Baseball (Avon, OH) Lake Erie Monsters AHL – Ice Hockey (Cleveland, OH) Licking County Settlers AAA Baseball (Newark, OH) Mahoning Valley Scrappers AA Baseball (Niles, OH) Marysville Meteors IBL (International Basketball League) Nashville Predators Ice Hockey New York Mets Baseball Ohio Machine Lacrosse (Deleware, OH) Philadelphia 76ers Basketball Philadelphia Eagles Football Philadelphia Soul Arena Football Philadelphia Penguins Ice Hockey Philadelphia Phantom American Ice Hockey League Philadelphia Sting Roller Hockey Philadelphia Kixx Soccer Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Philadelphia Flyers Ice Hockey Pittsburg Steelers Football Professional Golf Association Golf (Palm Beach Gardens, FL) Tacoma Rainiers AAA Baseball Tampa Bay Devil Rays Baseball Tampa Bay Buccaneers Football Toledo Mudhens AAA Baseball (Detroit Tigers) Toldeo Storm Ice Hockey Walla Walla Sweets AAA Baseball
Stadiums, Arenas, Amphitheaters; Sports Complexes “All Stars” Family Sports Entertainment Center (FSEC) Worthington, OH Chiller Ice Facility Dublin or Easton Town Center, OH Columbus Athenaeum Columbus, OH Comcast Spectacor Philadelphia, PA First Union Complex Philadelphia PA Football Hall of Fame Canton, OH Gund Arena Cleveland, OH Icelands Fam. Sports and Entertainment Complex Cincinnati, OH Mount Clements Ice Arena and Fitness Center Cincinnati, OH Jacobs Field Cleveland, OH LC Pavilion Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena Columbus, OH Germain Ampitheater/Live Nation Columbus, OH PromoWest Pavilion Columbus, OH 3 Resolute Sports Complex Columbus, OH Roger Dean Stadium Juniper, FL Quicken Loans Arena Cleveland, OH Soccer First (Indoor/Outdoor) Dublin, OH Sports Ohio Dublin, OH The Sports Barn (Easton) Columbus, OH Superkick (indoor soccer/lacrosse facility) Columbus, OH Value City Arena/Jerome Schottenstein Center Columbus, OH Wachovia Center Philadelphia, PA Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex Orlando, FL Yost Arena/Sport Facilities Research Laboratory Ann Arbor, MI
YMCA/YWCA Columbus (Downtown, East, North, Central Ohio) Dayton Gahanna Hilliard Marysville (Union County) Newark Powell Washington Courthouse
Corporations Ashland Chemical Columbus/Dublin, OH Chase Capital Corporation Columbus, OH Capital Club Athletics Columbus, OH CompuServe, Inc. Columbus, OH Honda Marysville, OH Longaberger Baskets Newark, OH Lucent Technologies Columbus, OH Nationwide Insurance Fitness Center Columbus, OH Nationwide Financials Columbus, OH Owens-Corning Fiberglass Lancaster, OH Palmer and Donavon Manufacturing Columbus, OH Procter and Gamble Lifestyle Center Cincinnati, OH UUNET Technologies (MCI World.com) Columbus, OH Worthington Industries Athletics Worthington, OH Worthington Industries (marketing department) Nike Beaverton, OR
Marketing/Advertising/Promotion Firms All Star Sports Columbus, OH Armstrong Marketing Group Columbus, OH Arocom Sport Marketing Cleveland, OH Ash-Dec Athletics, Inc. Westerville, OH Barrett Athletic Consulting Liberty Center, OH Champion Sports Groups Worthington, OH College Prospects of America Logan, OH Events 4 You Columbus, OH 4 Event Marketing Strategies Dublin, OH Ganim Enterprises Powell, OH Hermes Cleveland/Akron/Columbus, OH i9 Sports Marketing (Youth Sports Leagues) Westerville, OH franchise International Management Group (IMG) Cleveland, OH M3S Sports and Event Management Columbus, OH Milano Sports Enterprises, LLC Columbus, OH Offinger Management Company Columbus, OH OSU Jerome Schottenstein Center Columbus, OH Performance TCL (TCL, Inc.) Columbus, OH Premier Sports Event Management Firm Delaware, OH Rocket Sports Properties (Univ. Toledo) Toledo, OH Run Wild Racing, Inc. Delaware, OH Sport Management Inc. Westerville, OH Talis Sport & Event Marketing, Inc. Columbus, OH The Kempton Group Cincinnati, OH T.H. Executives, Inc. Columbus, OH USAthletes Worthington, OH Ultrafit USA Columbus, OH
Country Clubs & Golf Courses Bridgeview Golf Course & Range Columbus, OH Double Eagle Golf & Country Club Galena, OH Five Waters Golf Course Midvale, OH Grantwood Country Club Solon, OH The Lakes Golf and Country Club Westerville,OH Little Turtle Country Club Westerville, OH Medallian Country Club Westerville, OH Montesoro Country Club / Camp Cahuilla Borrego Springs, CA Muirfield Country Club Dublin, OH New Albany Country Club New Albany, OH Phoenix Golf Club Grove City, OH Pinnacle Golf Club Grove City, OH Scioto Country Club Columbus, OH Scioto Reserve Golf and Athletic Club Powell, OH The Phoenix Country Club Grove City, OH Wedgewood Country Club Powell, OH Westerville Golf Center Westerville, OH Worthington Hills Country Club Worthington, OH
Parks and Recreation Bexley Cleveland Columbus Dayton Dublin Community Recreation Center Geneva Area Recreational, Educational, Athletic Trust (GaREAT) Athletic Facility Geneva, OH Granville 5 Hilliard City of Inverness Inverness, FL Marion Perry Area Recreation Perrysburg, OH Powell Reynoldsburg Westerville Community Recreation Center Westerville Senior Citizen Center Westgate Recreation Center Columbus, OH Whitehall Community Park Worthington
Athletic Clubs Premiere (formerly Sawmill) Columbus, OH Westerville Wyandotte Columbus, OH
Fitness Centers Accelerate Ohio Columbus, OH Advanced Fitness and Boxing Columbus, OH Advanced Sports Concepts Columbus, OH Bally Total Fitness Dublin, OH Body Success, Inc. Sunbury, OH Columbus Fieldhouse Fitness Center Columbus, OH Columbus North Sports Club Columbus Sports Connection Curves Westerville, OH D 1 Sports Performance Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH Dublin Fitness Center Edge Talent Dublin, OH Elite Athletic Fitness Powell, OH Elite Performance and Fitness Mansfield, OH Excelerate Ohio Columbus, OH Fitness Planning Consultants, Inc. (sports performance specialists) Dublin, OH Gold's Gym and Fitness Center Worthington, OH HIT (High Intensity Training Center) (Personal Training; Marketing) Worthington, OH Kore 7 Sunbury, OH LA Fitness Lewis Center, OH Lifetime Fitness (Easton) Columbus, OH LIFT Training Facility Columbus, OH Max Sports (formerly Peak Athletic Performance) Dublin, OH Metro Fitness Columbus, OH New Albany Health & Wellness Center Ohio Sports Plus Training Academy Columbus, OH Power Shack Westerville, OH; Dublin, OH Showtime Fitness Newark, OH Slim and Tone Synergy Sports and Fitness Club / Toledo Volleyball Club Toledo, OH The Athletic Club-Metro V (Club Management, Inc.) Columbus, OH 6 The Capital Club Columbus, OH The Edge-Athletic Fitness Center New Albany, OH The Fitness Edge Cleveland, OH The Hoop Whitehall, OH Urban Active New Albany, OH; Powell, OH Victory Fitness Center Columbus, OH World's Gym Fitness Center Columbus, OH Zones 4 Youth Columbus, OH
Colleges and Universities College of Wooster Wooster, OH Columbus State Community College Columbus, OH Denison University Granville, OH Miami University of Ohio Oxford, OH National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Indianapolis, IN North Coast Athletic Association (NCAC) Cleveland, OH The Ohio State University Columbus, OH (RPAC, Schottenstein Center, Adventure Recreation Center, Athletic Dept., Buckeye Championship Sports Tour, McCorkle Aquatic Center) Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH OtterbeinUniversity Westerville, OH Temple University Philadelphia, PA Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA University of Akron Akron, OH University of Dayton Dayton, OH University of North Carolina-Raleigh Raleigh, NC University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA University of Texas Arlington, TX
High Schools Africentric Columbus, OH Alexandria Beechcroft Columbus, OH Bellefontaine Bishop Watterson Columbus, OH Buckeye Valley Delaware, OH Centennial Columbus, OH Columbus Academy Coshocton Delaware Hayes Delaware, OH DeSales Columbus, OH Dublin Coffman Dublin Scioto Gahanna Grove City Licking Heights Reynoldsburg, OH 7 Meadowdale Dayton, OH Newark New Albany Olentangy Liberty Powell, OH Olentangy Orange Lewis Center, OH Ontario Mansfield, OH Pickerington North Pickerington Central Reynoldsburg Thomas Worthington Worthington, OH Wellington Westerville Central Westerville North Westerville South Westland Galloway, OH Whitehall Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) Columbus, OH
Camps Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Baseball/Softball, Volleyball, Horseback Riding Sport Camps Outdoor and Retreat Ministry Summer Camps (ME, UT, OH, MI, PA) Tom Kuyper Basketball Camp
Retail Stores Addidas Portland, OR America's Fitness Warehouse, Inc. Dublin, OH Benchmark-Outdoor Outfitters Cincinnati, OH Cabela’s Dundee, MI; Wheeling W.VA Champ's Sports Columbus, OH Egelhoff Sports Columbus, OH Dick’s Sporting Goods (formerly Galyan's Trading Company) Columbus, OH (Polaris,Sawmill) Gander Mountain Columbus, OH Golfsmith Golf Center Columbus, OH Hartman Trophies Columbus, OH Kessler Team Sports, Inc Columbus, OH NordicTrack Fitness Columbus, OH Roush Sporting Goods Westerville, OH Soccer Plus Westerville, OH Sports Authority (formally Sportmart, Inc.) Columbus, OH Universal Fitness & Leisure, Inc. Worthington, OH
Race Tracks, Speedways (Horse/Car) Columbus Motor Speedway (NASCAR) Columbus, OH Beulah Park Grove City, OH Darby Downs Columbus, OH Lucas Oil (NASCAR) Indianapolis, IN Summit Racing Motorsports Park Norwalk, OH Scioto Downs Columbus, OH 8 National Trail Raceway (Drag racing) Hebron, OH Sport Management, Inc. (NASCAR) Westerville, OH TrueSports, Inc. Dublin, OH
Law Firms; Player Agents/Representation BDB Sports and Entertainment, LLC Columbus, OH (Buckingham, Doolittle & Buroughs Sports Law Firm) Diamond Sports Management Cleveland, OH First Eleven Sports Agency Berksire ,UK Priority Sports and Entertainment Chicago, IL Pro Sports Agency Philadelphia, PA Pro Star Sports Agency Philadelphia, PA
Special Events ARAMARK Philadelphia, PA Florida Sports Foundation Tallahassee, FL Creative Image Group Columbus, OH Georgia State Games Atlanta, GA Global Event Management (GEM) New York, NY Hermes Sports and Events Cleveland, OH IMG Sports and Entertainment Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH Octagon Norwalk, CT Prichard Sports & Entertainment (Nationwide Arena) Columbus, OH SMG Worldwide Cleveland, OH
Other Sport - Related Businesses The 2nd and 7 Foundation Columbus, OH Adaptive Adventure Sports Coalition Powell, OH All Sport FUNdamentals Westerville, OH Americheer Westerville, OH Batter’s Box Pataskala, OH Belfry Hockey/Rice Arena Newark, OH Big League Baseball School, Inc. Worthington, OH BKM Limited (road race management) Columbus, OH Buckeye Gymnastics Westerville, OH; Dublin, OH Cheer Force One Gahanna, OH Columbus Distribution Columbus, OH Grand Slam USA Westerville, OH; Dublin, OH Greater Cleveland Sports Commission Cleveland, OH Greater Columbus Sports Commission Columbus, OH Integrity Gymnastics and Cheerleading Plain City, OH LaCorte Performance Training Westerville, OH Mannino’s Grand Slam USA Dublin, OH Monster Sports Training (Adult Rec League) Columbus, OH North Columbus Athletic Association Columbus, OH NBC-4 Columbus, OH Phoenix Bat Company Plain City, OH Ohio Senergy (Cheer, Tubmbling, etc.) Delaware, OH Skyhawks: “Sports Programs for Kids” Worthington, OH, et al….. 9 Sky Zone Lewis Center, OH Special Olympics (Columbus base; Australia-Gold Coast base, Westerville base; Franklin County base) Spirit Ohio Sports Academy Mansfield, OH Sports Recruits Columbus, OH The Gille 50+ Center Columbus, OH Trip Sports (sports reporting for NW Ohio) Wapakoneta, OH U.S. Department of Defense Whitehall, OH U.S. Olympic Training Facility Colorado Springs, CO USSSA (US Sports Specialty Assoc – Softball) Kissimmee, FL United States Tennis Association White Plains, NY; Mason, OH Western & Southern Financial Group – ATP Masters Series Cincinnati, OH Wickertree Tennis and Fitness Club Columbus, OH Hurricane Junior Golf Tour Jacksonville, FL; Roanoke, VA
Adventure Education Center Worthington, OH Adventure Education Main Headquarters Missoula, MT Super Games Worthington, OH
Philadelphia Center Philadelphia, PA
Study Abroad Australearn Sydney, Melbourne – Australia Macquaire University Sydney, Australia University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia International College of Sport Management Sydney, Australia