OSM Invades Greensboro…for the NASC Symposium

The Office of Sports Marketing recently made the trek down to Greensboro, NC, for the National Association of Sports Commissions (NASC) Sports Events Symposium.  The event ran from Monday, April 11 through Thursday, April 14. Terry and Ashley kept themselves busy attending education sessions and meeting with multiple rights holders.  They even came back to Maryland with several request for proposals (RFPs) in hand.

OSM had positive meetings with right holders like USA Cycling, U.S. Transplant Games, National Senior Games Association, USA Field Hockey and the Women’s Half Marathon, to name a few.  Meeting with rights holders, like the ones listed, is a key component for bringing in new sporting events to the state and generating economic dollars.

Tourney on Track

Terry is spending today with rights-holders and event promoters at the National Association of Sports Commissions Symposium.  This morning he met with officials from Kick It, a youth sports organization that stages 3 x 3 soccer tournaments around the country.  Terry was delighted to learn they have scheduled an event for July 17-18 in Maryland.  What they haven’t settled on is a place, so of course Terry was eager to help.  If there’s one thing we have plenty of in this state, it’s soccer fields and players for them.

In addition to the Kick It folks, Terry has lined up an impressive array of meetings.  He’s also talking with the folks from Medalist Sports, who want to bring a professional cycling event to Maryland, ESPN Outdoors, interested in our bass fishing, the Senior Olympics, looking for future host venues, US Synchro, AVP beach volleyball , a Tae Kwando organization, US Lacrosse, ASA Softball, US Olympics and the Sports Congress.

As if that doesn’t keep him busy enough, Terry also found time to be selected to the Executive Board of National Association of Sports Commissions.

We’re sure there’s more news on the horizon.  Stay tuned.

Terry on the Trail

Terry is reporting to us today from Columbus, Ohio, where the National Association of Sports Commissions is holding their annual Event Symposium.  Terry is an NASC board member and chairman of their meetings committee, but he still has plenty of time to pursue those rights-holders looking for venues to host their events.

One of the meetings Terry has planned is with the promoters of a professional bicycle race that is very interested in staging a weeklong event between various stops in Maryland. 

(These are the same folks who were supposed to visit the Warehouse in February, but the blizzards got here first.)

Youth sports tournament organizers are always in force at this particular symposium, so Terry has his eye of a few of them.

When he gets a break between meetings, he’s going to call and give us an update.  We’ll be passing that information along as it comes.