This is Ryan Worthen, Box Office Assistant for the Hawks, writing this blog.  It is Onalee’s day off.  You may be asking yourself this: Why is this guy, a ticket person, writing a guest blog on “A Bird’s Eye View”?

I graduated last April from BYU-Idaho with a degree in communication.  My emphasis was public relations.  One of the possible career paths that I hope to pursue in the future is to play a key role in helping a professional baseball team gain positive exposure through public relations.  This is why I am writing a gues blog today, to gain a little experience in the professional world of doing PR for an organization.

As mentioned earlier, I am running the Boise Hawks Box Office this summer.  I love my job.  I love dealing with tickets and interacting with a wide assortment of people.  When dealing with tickets one must be detail oriented.  You are playing a key role in seating a couple thousand people in the right seat with the right people.  This is my second summer involved with professional baseball.  Last summer, I completed a successful general internship with the Idaho Falls Chukars.  I was able to get my feet wet in all areas of what it takes to run a professional baseball team ranging from tickets and promotions to groundskeeping and sponsorship sales.  I worked a lot with tickets last summer.  I ran the Chukars box office and was the main ticket person. 

I received my job with the Hawks at the Las Vegas Baseball Winter Meetings.  It was a great experience at the meetings.  I was able to interview with 10 teams.  I am grateful that I chose to work this summer with the Hawks.  This is a great organization with great employees.  I have learned a lot about working in professional baseball from working with the Hawks and the Chukars.  While the future of where my career path will go to is not clear, I have developed a special interest in either doing tickets or marketing/public relations for a professional baseball team.

Sorry for rambling on, but I must say this: Kristen and Onalee do an amazing job in publicizing this team.  They are always out in the community, talking with the media, writing stories, and doing whatever it takes to promote the team in a positive way.

Thanks for reading this blog.  This is the first time I had ever blogged in my life, as shown probably by the dryness of this post.  I hope to start up my own blog soon to write about my passion for the great sport of baseball.