Pre Classic Event.

 When I found out that was going to be apart of the media team for the Pre Classic I was so excited! It's one of those special events you always want to attend, so to be apart of it was an awesome experience and to receive SCHOOL CREDIT for it was an added bonus. 

 This was my group! 

I loved it that everyone in the group was super excited to be apart of the event 

and knew how cool of opportunity we had.

 Hey there RED and GREEN badge, we loved that we got these to get around all over!

 Paige at work getting ready to escort some athletes to the media tent!

Here is a little snib-bit from the diamond league about the event: 

The meeting is named for the legendary Steve Prefontaine, America ’s greatest distance runner at the time of his death in 1975 at age 24. Pre’s remarkable life was the subject of an award-winning documentary, “Fire On The Track”, and two major motion pictures, “Prefontaine”, released by Disney in January 1997 (two “thumbs up” from Siskel & Ebert), and “Without Limits”, released by Warner Bros. in September 1998 (named as one of the  Top 10 films of 1998 by Time magazine and the New York Times.)

The 2012 meeting on Saturday, June 2, will be the 38th annual edition, with

NIKE providing title sponsorship for 29 consecutive years.  

Attendance at the meeting, held each year at historic Hayward Field in Eugene , Oregon , has traditionally been the largest in the United States , with crowds of over 12,000.  The past 15 Pre Classics have been standing-room-only, and another sell-out is anticipated this year.

 Truth be told I have never actually attended the Pre Classic...maybe that's why I was overly excited to finally get to semi-attend. I had the best seat (you couldn't just see the sweat you could smell it...that kind of "best seat"). I mean escorting the fastest man in the world was pretty cool. The muscles were bulging and no ounce of fat to be seen. I tried not to stare, but it's kind of hard not to when this speeding freak of nature is in front of you. 

 It was fun to to be in the action, I think that's why I love event planning so much. It's a completely different experience being apart of an event then watching one.  I got to hold back press from attacking  Liu Xiang (aka fastest hurdler in the world). I literally had to grab one guy and stop him from following Liu onto the track. I was told that he is the Justin Bieber of China, girls were going CRAZY for him. 

 I got to experience being apart of the journalist life. I don't think I will ever be a journalist now, cross that one off the list of job prospects. They are ruthless, "GET ME MY STATS", they would yell at us. GEEEZ calm down, the stats have been on the screen for 8 minutes I don't think having them on paper is that much better! Man, oh man, the pressure of GETTING THE STORY! There was media from across the world some of the few were Kenya, Paris, China, and NYC.  Passing out their credentials was somewhat of a struggle, for starts I couldn't understand them pronouncing their name and second didn't know how it was spelled. Woops. 

 Way up in the media box was more passing out event results.

AND the view was great too!

 Well that wraps up my Pre Classic event! 

It's opportunities like these that make me think I might possibly miss college.