February 28, 2024 • 32 mins
In this episode of “Inside the Oval” presented by Dignity Health, Anna Warwick reflected on her favorite moments from the 49ers internship program, balancing life and school as a student athlete at Clemson, the importance of being able to change a tire, how she got into graphic design and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When do I talk, like, are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You'll know, You'll know, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to the Inside the Oval Podcast, presented by Dignity Health.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm Patti Kwan.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
And I'm Hayley Jones, and today we are joined by
graphic design intern Anna Warwick.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Anna, thank you so much for joining the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thanks for having me. I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I want to start off with, how did you learn
about this internship and what was the process like for
you to apply for it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
It's funny because I was just scrolling on TikTok one
day and I saw a girl who's kind of my age,
and she's like, if you want to get into sports,
there's all these internships posted on teamwork Online, and she
talked about them and the forty nine ers was one
of them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So I went online.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I was actually in California on vacation with my parents
and we were big Bear skiing, and I was just like,
Oh my gosh, I have to apply right now. So
I went on teamwork Online and I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Just applied applied to like thirty jobs.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Like when I was my first semester senior year of college,
I was really stressed because I'd just come from another internship,
and I was like, I need a job now, and
I thought that you could get hired like that far
in advance before you graduate, and so I was applying
to thirty jobs. I didn't hear a single thing, and
then I applied to this San Francisco one, and then
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after that, I think it was two months later, I
got an email from HR and they're like, congrats, like
we want to do a screening. You've got like an interview,
and I cried. I was like, wow, I didn't think
my applications like were actually going through because I hadn't
heard a thing, and so or I had a first
round interview with HR, like a screening, and then about
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a couple weeks later, I had two interviews with the
design director Aaron and then Christine, who's no longer here.
And after that I had to do like a questionnaire
like a Google Docs of like if you were a
marketing employee, that's one thing that you would bring to
the forty nine ers team and stuff like questions like that,
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and then I filled that out and then like a
month later I.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Got the job.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Who was the scariest person you met in the process.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I talk about this all the time. In the office.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
But Christine was the scariest interviewer that I've ever had,
and I think it's because she wasn't giving much on
the other end. Like I was answering the questions, She's like, Okay,
next question, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm
doing horrible. And she would answer the questions or she
would ask questions another way but the same question, so
(02:48):
it's like I'm not giving her like what she wants.
Like she asked me like four different leadership questions and
I was like, oh my gosh, like I'm not a leader.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
So that was really stressful. But then I ended up
meeting her in Vegas and went to the Super Bowl.
It was the first time I met her in person
because she had ended up leaving before I got here,
and she was the kindest human I've ever met. I
was like, Oh, I had nothing to be worried about.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I feel like we all have very similar interview stories
where the person that I was most intimidated of ended
up being like not intimidating at all. Once you're like
working side by side, So that's really funny.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It is funny I think now if I was ever
on the other end, I want to be a scary interviewer.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I don't think you're capable, but I would love to
see that.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'm always worried I'm gonna be the scary interview so
I feel like I go out of my way to
not be, like I'm always like trying, Like I'll catch
myself not smiling while they're talking, and I'm like, smile, Haley, smile,
You're being fake to them. I'm just trying to make
them comfortable.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yeah, no, that makes sense. I honestly, if I had
to guess in the office who would be scary, it
would be you two, which is not true in person,
but if I had to guess, like who would come
across as scary, because when I first got here, I
was really scared.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Of both of you.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Great, I'm sorry you felt that. Did you know right away?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Like I know, some people who are going through the
internship process, they don't kind of know what they want
to do in sports, so they apply to multiple positions
throughout and we're fortunate to have you know, a bunch
throughout the organization.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Did you only apply to the graphic design one?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
So the application was kind of different. So it was
a marketing application and then you rank the four different
internships we have here which ones you'd want. So I
actually ranked Brand and Fan Engagement first because I had
just come from a brand marketing internship and I was like,
this is what I want to do, Like I love
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this and I went to school for design, but which
I also love.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So I was like, okay, I'll ranked that second.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
And then the other two I was like, I don't
even know what these are, but yeah. So then I
when I got the screening interview, I thought I was
interviewing the brand and fan engagement and then when I
was in the interview, they're like, yeah, so we really,
we really want you for the graphic design. And I
was like, hmm, okay, that's fine when like I still
love to design, but I really wanted to do the
(05:13):
Brandon fan engagement. But now that I'm here, like design
is I'm really happy is the one that they chose
me to do.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Being from South Carolina went to Clemson, What was it
like moving across the country, Like right out of college,
it was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It was a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I definitely had like culture sock for like the first month,
I'd say moving out here, but I am I'm from
the South, but my parents are from the North, So
I think that helped me a lot. Like I'm not
very like the huge Southern girl, like everyone thinks like, oh,
you're from South.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Carolina, Like do you have an accent?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Like all these things, but you didn't like walk around
asking us if we wanted sweet teeth.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Right, Like like Nigel will be in the office and
he's like, oh, I missed those colored greens, Like me too, Nigel.
Some grits, some cheese and grits. No, but I was
looking for this after college. I really wanted to get
out of the South to just explore and like see
the rest of the world or the country. And so
I'm really happy that this is where I ended up
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after college.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Having basically almost completed a full season with the Niners.
You have a couple more days left, which is really sad. No,
but what are your base your biggest takeaways from working
like training camp all the way through a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a full on sprint.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I think the hardest part was figuring out how to
balance this with your life, like finding that work life balance.
And I'd say it took the whole season to figure
that out because I love like I love this team
and I love what I do, so I can get
really carried away with that. But it's been really cool,
and I think the biggest takeaway is finding a team
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or a culture that you can fully be yourself. And
I look forward to going to work every day, Like
I wake up, I'm like, I get to go in
the office because in season you only have one day
off basically, And so when we came back from Vegas
and we have like weekends now, like a full weekend,
I was like, what am I supposed to do? Like
I don't see these people every day now, Like it's weird.
(07:18):
So that was my biggest stick aways. I think from
this experience, I've learned that I want. I now know
what a good culture is and I can now try
to look for that wherever I go next.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Between training camp, home games, away games, playoffs, super Bowl,
did any events take you by surprise?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I mean obviously the Super Bowl, because like that's surprising,
you know, we don't know if you're going. So when
we won the NSC Championship, like that was surprising, and
going to Vegas was so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I did not know what.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Training camp was when I first got here, so I
guess that was surprising too, But it was fun. It
was really if I like camp, like you're outside, you're
like talking to people.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Can you tell us a little bit about some of
your previous internship experiences? You have experience in Nike, Clemson football,
the Irwin Center.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Can you tell us a little bit about those? Okay,
I'll start.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
So my major at Clemson is graphic communications, and with
that major, required to do two internships before you graduated.
Then they have to be full time, they have to
be paid. Was really dreading that when I got to
school because I didn't know what I wanted to do.
I just knew that I wanted to be creative, and
so finding an internship, interviewing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That whole process was so scary for me.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And so luckily I got randomly placed the roommate my
sophomore year, who was a fifth year, and I was
not supposed to be placed with her. I had other
friends I was living with in a five bedroom and
we had four people, so they threw a fifth person
with us, and we were really mad about it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
We were like, we don't want a fifth roommate. We
don't know her.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
She ended up being incredible and she happened to be
the same major as me, finishing the major, so she
gave me all of the best advice. And she had
done her internship, so she had so many connections. And
one of her internships she did was at Clemson Football
in graphic design, like the recruiting department. She's like, oh,
are you interested in that? I was like, I love football,
(09:19):
Like I would love to be in sports and be
in that world. And she's like, okay, like, I'll reach
out to my manager there and you guys can get
in contact. So I got in contact with him and
I got my first internship with Clemson football recruiting like
graphic design, and that was the first time I really learned,
like the ins and out of Photoshop, how to design
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for sports design. And that was I'd say, like the
biggest learning internship that i'd had.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My first one.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And from there, I met a guy who was I
think he was an interner.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He was like in school still.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
He was a student who also worked for Clemson football,
and he had on the Nike internship in Oregon, and
I was like, that is insane. I didn't even know
they had internships, and he was like, you should apply,
like it was like the best experience. It was a
summer internship, and I was like, yeah, that sounds amazing.
So he helped me tremendously, gave me like ten sheets
(10:17):
of paper of how he prepared for the interviews, like
how he went about asking questions and all these things,
which was so helpful. And so I applied out of
a whim, did not think I would get anything from that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I ended up getting a first interview.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
With the recruiter, did pretty well, and then moved on
from there and got a couple other interviews with Nike,
and I got the internship in Oregon, and they fly
you out to Oregon and they you're there for two
months and there's one hundred and fifty interns with you.
I have like a huge intern class. And it was
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the craziest, most fun like internship I'd ever done. I mean,
this was awesome, but that one was more of like
a two month sped up. I just did not feel
like I was like in the real world. It was crazy.
I think that was the fastest I'd ever learned and
grown and like learned about myself. I was on That
was the first time I was away from my home
for that long across the country, so that was incredible.
(11:17):
And that internship was in brand marketing. So I applied
to that internship and I asked to do graphic design
and they said, no, actually we want you to do
brand marketing. So that was like a switch. I did
not know what marketing was. I had never taken a
marketing class. So I showed up and my manager did
not interview me. It's a different process. They don't interview
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the direct people you're.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Going to be placed with.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
They just interview a bunch of candidates and then they
from there will decide like where you're being placed, what
team you're on, what location you could be in LA,
New York, different Nike offices. So I got just placed
in Oregon on the NFL brand marketing team. And my
manager at the beginning, he was a little worried about me.
He's like, Okay, it seems like you don't know much
(12:02):
about marketing, and I was like yep. But towards the
end he was really impressed with how much I learned
and I fell in love with marketing as a whole.
So that was incredible, And then went back to school
for my senior at Clemson and we graduated and applied here.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
What are the differences between designing for college football and
professional football?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Yeah, huge difference. I designed specifically for recruits in Clemson football,
so it was more of designing or how can we
I feel like that had a more marketing brand, like
what designs can we make to persuade these recruits to
come to Clemson. So, like one graphic I had made
was an l I and I had like made a
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graphic of that on the table and had different hats
of different things of recruit grabbing the Clemson hat. And
that's just like fun visual graphics that we would make
to like picture themselves coming to Clemson, like signing to Clemson.
So that's a fun way that we designed at Clemson.
Whereas like on an NFL team, obviously they're here, they've
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already been signed a fee here, so you're just designing
for like the fan base and like how to capture
like the awards that they've won and all these things.
But yeah, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Do you have a favorite project you've worked on while
you've been here.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I have so many. We just did our internship presentations
and I gave.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It was really hard because it was like, what were
you most proud of? And I couldn't choose, so I
how to do three, but I chose I'll mention one
of them was the my Cousmic cleats. That one was
super fun because most of the time we're always behind
the computer designing, and this was the first time that
we got to like be behind or at least for me,
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be behind the scenes, like in a photo shoot with
Tee or a photographer and set the shoes up and
kind of like see the whole project come to life
into the graphics from start to finish.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And that was really fun for me.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And then I got to work with the digital team
as well and make that website with them.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So it was a really fun project.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
And that was one of the first times that I
got to lead a project and come up with the
look on its own and it looked great.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Thank you, dead, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I want to go back to you deciding to major
in graphic design.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I know obviously it's not always tied to marketing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You said when you entered Nike you didn't really know
much about marketing. But what got you interested in pursuing
graphic communications?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yeah, So when I was deciding where to go to
school or what I wanted to major in, I was
an athlete in high school and I wanted to go
to school for rowing, and this is not what you're
supposed to do. But I decided on where I wanted
to go to school based off the rowing teams, and
so I was really just like in the recruitment process
talking to coaches, and from there, the coaches would ask like,
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what do you want to major in? And I would
say that I'm not sure yet, either business or something
that's crazy. So each school was different, Like I looked
in West Virginia they had interior design. I was looking there,
Oregon State, I think had graphic design. Was looking at
random schools with different majors, and so the only creative
major that Clemson had was called graphic communications, which I
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had no idea what that even meant. And so I
ended up loving Clemson for the rowing team, and so
I chose I signed to Clemson. And then my mom
was actually the one that was like, graphic communication seems
like is what you should do?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I was like, okay, Mom, I trust you.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
And then when I got to Clemson and we got
to graphic communications.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It was.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It turned out to be like a really heavy print major.
So you learn about all these printing machines like screen printing, flexo, printing,
ink jet, like you name it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And it's more. I was like, am I like an
engineering major?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Like I was, really you could start a newspaper if
you want, I could, I could print, I could design,
and I could print you a newspaper.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But yeah, that was super interesting.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And then but you still learn all the Adobe softwares
and also with your internships that you choose to do,
you can really choose how you want this major to
go for you. And there's so many different classes you
can take. And I'm really happy that I did this
major because I think it makes me really well rounded
when it comes to designing for certain things, how to
export different files, and it goes into the nitty gritty
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of design.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But yeah, that's that's actually a great transition. Like what
was it like being a student athlete in college? I
know you said rowing. There was like one girl my
freshman year who was on the rowing team and she
would be up at like five am, which sounds horrible.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, that was it was fun. I'd say it's a
it's like the hardest thing you do and the most
rewarding thing that you do, like being a student athlete. Yes,
we had to wake up at five am every morning.
Our practice FRA was like two and a half hours,
like six to eight thirty. Then you had another practice
in the afternoon or on your own workout or weights,
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and then managing school on top of that. But then
you also get on the other end the most support
ever and you I think I would not be where
I am today without my teammates, without the support system
we had. I mean the internship that I got here,
I would not have gotten without the student athlete development
people at Clemson who helped me prep for every interview
(17:26):
or set up my resume and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So it's a really.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Hard balance and it was something that made me grow tremendously,
So it was really fun.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
While you were in college, you came into some TikTok fame.
How have you used social media to like obviously you
said that you found like sports internships through your TikTok,
but how have used your personal social to enhance your
professional brand?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
When I came into college, I found the fame through
my room. So she had been a huge TikToker in
high school, Like she loved to do the dances on
TikTok and when I got when I started roomming with her,
she would be like, you know, like come do.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
These dances with me.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing,
but they were so fun. And we ended up doing
a TikTok dance our first month at school and it
kind of blew up a little bit just in like
the Clemson area, and people were recognizing us in class
they were like, oh, we saw your TikTok video was like, this.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Is really embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
And then from there as well, like we were a
little freshman on the rowing team. There's eighty girls on
a rowing team, or probably like sixty girls in a
rowing team, and they were all like roasting us like oh, we.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Saw your TikTok. You should do the dance right now.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
And we're like, oh, this is horrible, but yeah, that
was really fun to do with her, and like throughout COVID,
like that's the thing that we would do is like
TikTok dances. And then I never really personally grew my
own TikTok page like I do some videos here and there,
but mine never blew up unfortunately. And then Instagram, like
I just always loved editing photos and like doing carousels
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and taking pictures of places that I travel, so that's fun,
but I never really, like, I don't know, established a
brand for myself on or on TikToker socials.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So quick story time, we were on our way to
pottery for some reason, I don't know, it was very therapeutic. Regardless,
we were on the way to pottery one day after
work and I had mentioned you, I think my tire's flat,
and you came out and you looked and you're like,
your tire is definitely flat from like you.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Know, the the eye.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yes, But then but then you pulled out this tool
that allowed me to see exactly my tire pressure. And
you said, oh, I learned this in college because my
rowing coach had something called four real Fridays. Yes, you
tell us about four real Fridays and what else you learned?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Okay, Well, first, I hope that other people know what
this is, and if not, I guess this is a
good learning lesson. But if your tire's flat, everyone needs
a tire gauge in their car and Haley's nodding her head.
I think she knows what this is. So Patty, I'm
a little.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Multiple tire issues since she started working here.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And you know what, I think it's a Bay Area thing.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'm not the only one, So anyone who is listening locally.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
If you've ever been to Levi Stadium, there's like a
bridge right next to the Toyota gate f entrance, and
she had to pull over on the bridge because she
had a flat.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Tire, literally during like rush hour.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh my gosh, this first change a tire.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
This is the thing. I think there's just like a
lot of construction.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
In the Bay.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, Patty doesn't know how to do a nail. A
nail gets stuck in your tire whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We did that on the way to Sacramento too. We
had to stop and put.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Because my cars have been so old that they don't
it doesn't notify you if your tire's flat because my
cars are like they're just older.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So you kind of have to just know by feeling or.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
What we were.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
We were in traffic and a guy rolled down his
window and was like trying to get her attention, and
we were in traffic on the highway and he goes,
your tire is.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Flat, but like, neither of us had any idea, like,
so it's not a feeling. Yeah, I don't know, or
just you know, a good samaritan along the road.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
But go on, I think that you need new tires.
If they're old, you can get new tires. It's not
like a car. We had to buy a new car.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes, I am aware.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I could just buy new tires or I could take
it in to get patched. Because in our instance for
this story, which we've you know, there's been a huge tangent.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Sorry, I was able to locate the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Nail in my tire and I brought it into a
shop and he said, it's a good thing. It's in
this place where you can patch it versus completely replace
the tire groove.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah, okay, so yes for real fridays. So during COVID,
we still had practices. That was actually the only thing
that we had going on at Clemson. Everything was online
except for practice, but we were still in like cohorts,
Like I couldn't even see my whole team. I was
specifically assigned to a group, and our coaches came up
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with this idea. I don't know how they came up
with the idea, but on Fridays we would usually have
team bonding and they were kind of like, let's think
of a new fun idea to help these girls like
with real world experiences that could happen to them, and
let's help them like for their future, because college you
learn a lot about a thing, a lot of things
about what you're about to do in your career, but
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for real life, like, let's teach them some things during
team bonding time. So our first lesson for four real
fridays is what they named it was how to replace attire,
how to put a spare on your car. And our
coaches pulled their cars in front of our rowing facility
and they replaced They taught us and we all together
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like I don't I mean, I don't remember like exactly
every word that everything that we did, but we took
the tire off their car, put the little donut on theirs,
and then took the donut off and then put their
real tire back on. And we had two different cars
that we were doing that too, and it was a
really it was a really fun activity. And now I
feel confident like if I were to have a flat tire,
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like Patty to be self sufficient and like replace my
own tire. We also did we had one of our
coaches I think, does father in law come in teach
us some finance lessons. I'm sad to say that I
don't really remember anything from that lesson, but my most
I think the most fun for real Friday that we
did was self defense class. And we had someone come
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in and teach us self defense. We broke wood in half.
We learned, like in certain situations what to do a
lot of situations you have to grab the thumbs and
pull them backwards.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's a really sensitive stot for people.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
But I feel like misc geniality just taught me that
there's to do like.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What solar sing sing Solar plans in step nose growing.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I no, I haven't. Well we need
we need to do that soon. Yeah. That could be
like incorporated into maybe another four reel Friday. Well, I
clearly don't know what this is.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I ask someone like who graduated recently, for people who
are graduating maybe this year, next year and want to
get into the sports industry, what kind of advice do
you have for them?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Ooh definitely, Well, I mean I found mine through TikTok,
and I think for our day and Angel is super resourceful,
Like I will go on there and like search things
like when I first got the internship, I searched like
forty nine ers employee and some people do like day
in the life of employee forty nine ers. From there,
you can get into like a whole tunnel of like
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how I got into the sports industry. And there's so
many different girls or women or even just anyone post
like advice and help, and so my advice is to
go look for more advice on TikTok. But because I
think everyone has a different path on how to get
into the sports industry. And if you're fortunate enough to
be at a school that gives you opportunities to be
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a part of your athletics program, I think that's huge
as well. And I think that's how a lot of
people like get involved and then get those connections and
get those resume builders. And then on top of that,
if you have the opportunity to get into this world,
use that and be curious, be a sponge. And I
think the most important thing you can do is just
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ask questions and try to learn as much as you
can The thing that I try to do.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The most is, which I hope you guys have noticed.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Here, is like try to get to know everyone around
your office and talk to them, ask them how they've
got here, what they did to do to get here,
what they do now. There's so many different things you
can do in sports, and so to learn each thing
is really cool and.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Really interesting to me.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
And yeah, but I I think that's the advice that
I've gotten from other people and I've taken here.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Before we get to the final question that we ask everybody, Wow,
that's fat. This might be a loaded one. But what
is next for you in a warwork? And maybe you
don't know yet because you know you've just completed this internship,
but maybe what's next?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And like where do you maybe want to be in
like five years.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's like I'm going to sleep for the next week.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Oh my gosh, this is a loaded question. In five years. Hmmm.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
I definitely want to keep growing in design. From being here,
I've grown a lot, but there's I've realized there's just
so much more I could learn. Like something personally I
really want to learn is how to do motion design.
I only know how to do stills, right, now and
Noah and Vents on our design team are really and Aaron,
all of them are really good at motion design, and
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so that's something that I want to take upon myself
and really learn. And in the season I tried a
little bit, but it's really hard with our schedules. So
now that I'm less busy, that's something that I want
to learn. But in five years, I think that I
want to grow in marketing as a whole. I'm from
being in the brand marketing side at Nike. I learned
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a lot about like strategy and all these things, and
so I want to keep growing in that space and
even maybe like the analytics side, Like I just want
to be really well rounded in the marketing space to
hopefully grow as like a leader when I'm older.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's better than like I could have said after, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Better than I could say like now, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, final question. We asked this to everyone.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
If you're a listener, even know and so obviously you've
seen your fair share of job descriptions. I mean, you
applied to thirty out of college, which is actually really impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I don't know if I'll do that again.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
There's always that ominous other duties as assigned bullet Point
at what like? Did you have any of those experiences
during your turn ship here?
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I had a ton, and Patty knows this very well,
but I think the one that stuck out the most
was definitely being a model for Levi's. And I say
this heavily because I unfortunately didn't make the cut and
I'm still salty about it. Levi's, I love you, I
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love your brand.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
You're wearing the gear neck.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I am actually wearing the stuff that I modeled, so
I guess I'm not that salty about it, but I
am a little salty because I didn't make the cut.
And I edited my own self into the post because
I'm on the graphic design team. But yeah, So basically,
we did a Levi's forty nine ers collection special limited
edition and our photographer Tea got sent like the apparel
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for it, and he just went around the office and
was like, can you be a model tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Can you be a model tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And so he asked me to be a model for
the denim jacket. I was like, of course, Like it's
so fun, and so the next day I get ready,
I you know, I put my makeup on, ready to
be a model, and I get behind the camera or yeah, no,
in front of the camera, which is different for me,
and we modeled and it was really fun. It was
it was really scary. Actually, I was like, I don't
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know how to act in front of a camera.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It's weird. But yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Then follow like a few weeks later, Patty comes to
me and she's like, I have the photos. We need
to edit them and mock them up to send to Levi's.
It's like okay, and there was me, Patty was a model,
Aaron other like Nigel, even Tea, the owned photographer, was
a model, which is kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That was really cool. But it was a really fun project.
And then we sent it to Levi's and they go, yeah,
can we take can we take this person?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
And I didn't know this because I wasn't on the
email chain. And the next morning I see the post
on Instagram. I was like, oh yeah, I'm scrolling through
and then I get to the end and I'm like, wait,
what I'm not on But yeah, so I guess that
was a huge Other other duties as assigned a little
modeling action. I will use that picture to my own
advanced as you should.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I could not posted it yet. No, maybe that's how
I'll start growing my brand on Instagram. There we go.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, that was the most like meta experience because you're
like editing your own photos like you're editing photos of
your coworkers. Yeah, I'm literally posting like this feels like
a big red flag as like a social media manager,
like putting yourself in a post that lives on the
team page is so weird.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, it's like you're you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
No, that I felt like really taboo like. But no,
that was fun.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And I will say I have used that anecdote where
you know, I'm going through internship interviews now and some
have asked me like what's a good quality like name,
like what would make a good intern?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
And I said, you know what.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I went to our design intern with a last minute
project and it was this Levi's collapse. I went her
at like five pm and I said, we needed something
visual like Levi's needs to see exactly like what we're
gonna post because they've had such a heavy hand in it,
and it like I could type it out, but I
think they just really need to see something.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
And she's like, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So like we were like googling, like Instagram, like mock
ups and like the font even she was going above
and beyond for something that ended up.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's just funny now thinking about.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It, because obviously they would a different direction usually, but
like so much of that was because.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Of what Yah helps me.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
The post would not have happened without the models or
the work that models did behind the scenes. Very true,
very well rounded. Yeah, it was still fun to work
on it. I mean it was really cool to even
see your coworkers be models, Like that's really fun and
like hype them up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
So it was really funny. But yeah, one day I'll
be a model.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Maybe we'll just bring you back for any modeling thing.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, eventually freelanced me for that, not just modeling.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Well, Anna, thank you so much for being on the podcast.
This was really fun. Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Am I the first official intern to ever be on
a podcast. Yeah, inside the other I'm really honored and
I'm really happy that you guys were my hosts for
that to be a part of this day for me.
You know, I didn't no longer scared of it. Yeah,
I'm no longer scared of them. They're actually my best
friends now. And I didn't get the modeling career, but
maybe a podcast career in the future.
When do I talk, like, are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You'll know, You'll know, Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to the Inside the Oval Podcast, presented by Dignity Health.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm Patti Kwan.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
And I'm Hayley Jones, and today we are joined by
graphic design intern Anna Warwick.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Anna, thank you so much for joining the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Thanks for having me. I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I want to start off with, how did you learn
about this internship and what was the process like for
you to apply for it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
It's funny because I was just scrolling on TikTok one
day and I saw a girl who's kind of my age,
and she's like, if you want to get into sports,
there's all these internships posted on teamwork Online, and she
talked about them and the forty nine ers was one
of them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
So I went online.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
I was actually in California on vacation with my parents
and we were big Bear skiing, and I was just like,
Oh my gosh, I have to apply right now. So
I went on teamwork Online and I.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Just applied applied to like thirty jobs.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
Like when I was my first semester senior year of college,
I was really stressed because I'd just come from another internship,
and I was like, I need a job now, and
I thought that you could get hired like that far
in advance before you graduate, and so I was applying
to thirty jobs. I didn't hear a single thing, and
then I applied to this San Francisco one, and then
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after that, I think it was two months later, I
got an email from HR and they're like, congrats, like
we want to do a screening. You've got like an interview,
and I cried. I was like, wow, I didn't think
my applications like were actually going through because I hadn't
heard a thing, and so or I had a first
round interview with HR, like a screening, and then about
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a couple weeks later, I had two interviews with the
design director Aaron and then Christine, who's no longer here.
And after that I had to do like a questionnaire
like a Google Docs of like if you were a
marketing employee, that's one thing that you would bring to
the forty nine ers team and stuff like questions like that,
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and then I filled that out and then like a
month later I.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Got the job.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Who was the scariest person you met in the process.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I talk about this all the time. In the office.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
But Christine was the scariest interviewer that I've ever had,
and I think it's because she wasn't giving much on
the other end. Like I was answering the questions, She's like, Okay,
next question, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm
doing horrible. And she would answer the questions or she
would ask questions another way but the same question, so
(02:48):
it's like I'm not giving her like what she wants.
Like she asked me like four different leadership questions and
I was like, oh my gosh, like I'm not a leader.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
So that was really stressful. But then I ended up
meeting her in Vegas and went to the Super Bowl.
It was the first time I met her in person
because she had ended up leaving before I got here,
and she was the kindest human I've ever met. I
was like, Oh, I had nothing to be worried about.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
That's so funny.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I feel like we all have very similar interview stories
where the person that I was most intimidated of ended
up being like not intimidating at all. Once you're like
working side by side, So that's really funny.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It is funny I think now if I was ever
on the other end, I want to be a scary interviewer.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I don't think you're capable, but I would love to
see that.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I'm always worried I'm gonna be the scary interview so
I feel like I go out of my way to
not be, like I'm always like trying, Like I'll catch
myself not smiling while they're talking, and I'm like, smile, Haley, smile,
You're being fake to them. I'm just trying to make
them comfortable.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Yeah, no, that makes sense. I honestly, if I had
to guess in the office who would be scary, it
would be you two, which is not true in person,
but if I had to guess, like who would come
across as scary, because when I first got here, I
was really scared.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Of both of you.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Great, I'm sorry you felt that. Did you know right away?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Like I know, some people who are going through the
internship process, they don't kind of know what they want
to do in sports, so they apply to multiple positions
throughout and we're fortunate to have you know, a bunch
throughout the organization.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Did you only apply to the graphic design one?
Speaker 6 (04:24):
So the application was kind of different. So it was
a marketing application and then you rank the four different
internships we have here which ones you'd want. So I
actually ranked Brand and Fan Engagement first because I had
just come from a brand marketing internship and I was like,
this is what I want to do, Like I love
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this and I went to school for design, but which
I also love.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
So I was like, okay, I'll ranked that second.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
And then the other two I was like, I don't
even know what these are, but yeah. So then I
when I got the screening interview, I thought I was
interviewing the brand and fan engagement and then when I
was in the interview, they're like, yeah, so we really,
we really want you for the graphic design. And I
was like, hmm, okay, that's fine when like I still
love to design, but I really wanted to do the
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Brandon fan engagement. But now that I'm here, like design
is I'm really happy is the one that they chose
me to do.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Being from South Carolina went to Clemson, What was it
like moving across the country, Like right out of college,
it was.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It was a lot.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I definitely had like culture sock for like the first month,
I'd say moving out here, but I am I'm from
the South, but my parents are from the North, So
I think that helped me a lot. Like I'm not
very like the huge Southern girl, like everyone thinks like, oh,
you're from South.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Carolina, Like do you have an accent?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Like all these things, but you didn't like walk around
asking us if we wanted sweet teeth.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Right, Like like Nigel will be in the office and
he's like, oh, I missed those colored greens, Like me too, Nigel.
Some grits, some cheese and grits. No, but I was
looking for this after college. I really wanted to get
out of the South to just explore and like see
the rest of the world or the country. And so
I'm really happy that this is where I ended up
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after college.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Having basically almost completed a full season with the Niners.
You have a couple more days left, which is really sad. No,
but what are your base your biggest takeaways from working
like training camp all the way through a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's a full on sprint.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I think the hardest part was figuring out how to
balance this with your life, like finding that work life balance.
And I'd say it took the whole season to figure
that out because I love like I love this team
and I love what I do, so I can get
really carried away with that. But it's been really cool,
and I think the biggest takeaway is finding a team
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or a culture that you can fully be yourself. And
I look forward to going to work every day, Like
I wake up, I'm like, I get to go in
the office because in season you only have one day
off basically, And so when we came back from Vegas
and we have like weekends now, like a full weekend,
I was like, what am I supposed to do? Like
I don't see these people every day now, Like it's weird.
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So that was my biggest stick aways. I think from
this experience, I've learned that I want. I now know
what a good culture is and I can now try
to look for that wherever I go next.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Between training camp, home games, away games, playoffs, super Bowl,
did any events take you by surprise?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I mean obviously the Super Bowl, because like that's surprising,
you know, we don't know if you're going. So when
we won the NSC Championship, like that was surprising, and
going to Vegas was so fun.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I did not know what.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Training camp was when I first got here, so I
guess that was surprising too, But it was fun. It
was really if I like camp, like you're outside, you're
like talking to people.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Can you tell us a little bit about some of
your previous internship experiences? You have experience in Nike, Clemson football,
the Irwin Center.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Can you tell us a little bit about those? Okay,
I'll start.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
So my major at Clemson is graphic communications, and with
that major, required to do two internships before you graduated.
Then they have to be full time, they have to
be paid. Was really dreading that when I got to
school because I didn't know what I wanted to do.
I just knew that I wanted to be creative, and
so finding an internship, interviewing.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That whole process was so scary for me.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
And so luckily I got randomly placed the roommate my
sophomore year, who was a fifth year, and I was
not supposed to be placed with her. I had other
friends I was living with in a five bedroom and
we had four people, so they threw a fifth person
with us, and we were really mad about it.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
We were like, we don't want a fifth roommate. We
don't know her.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
She ended up being incredible and she happened to be
the same major as me, finishing the major, so she
gave me all of the best advice. And she had
done her internship, so she had so many connections. And
one of her internships she did was at Clemson Football
in graphic design, like the recruiting department. She's like, oh,
are you interested in that? I was like, I love football,
(09:19):
Like I would love to be in sports and be
in that world. And she's like, okay, like, I'll reach
out to my manager there and you guys can get
in contact. So I got in contact with him and
I got my first internship with Clemson football recruiting like
graphic design, and that was the first time I really learned,
like the ins and out of Photoshop, how to design
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for sports design. And that was I'd say, like the
biggest learning internship that i'd had.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My first one.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
And from there, I met a guy who was I
think he was an interner.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He was like in school still.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
He was a student who also worked for Clemson football,
and he had on the Nike internship in Oregon, and
I was like, that is insane. I didn't even know
they had internships, and he was like, you should apply,
like it was like the best experience. It was a
summer internship, and I was like, yeah, that sounds amazing.
So he helped me tremendously, gave me like ten sheets
(10:17):
of paper of how he prepared for the interviews, like
how he went about asking questions and all these things,
which was so helpful. And so I applied out of
a whim, did not think I would get anything from that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I ended up getting a first interview.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
With the recruiter, did pretty well, and then moved on
from there and got a couple other interviews with Nike,
and I got the internship in Oregon, and they fly
you out to Oregon and they you're there for two
months and there's one hundred and fifty interns with you.
I have like a huge intern class. And it was
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the craziest, most fun like internship I'd ever done. I mean,
this was awesome, but that one was more of like
a two month sped up. I just did not feel
like I was like in the real world. It was crazy.
I think that was the fastest I'd ever learned and
grown and like learned about myself. I was on That
was the first time I was away from my home
for that long across the country, so that was incredible.
(11:17):
And that internship was in brand marketing. So I applied
to that internship and I asked to do graphic design
and they said, no, actually we want you to do
brand marketing. So that was like a switch. I did
not know what marketing was. I had never taken a
marketing class. So I showed up and my manager did
not interview me. It's a different process. They don't interview
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the direct people you're.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Going to be placed with.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
They just interview a bunch of candidates and then they
from there will decide like where you're being placed, what
team you're on, what location you could be in LA,
New York, different Nike offices. So I got just placed
in Oregon on the NFL brand marketing team. And my
manager at the beginning, he was a little worried about me.
He's like, Okay, it seems like you don't know much
(12:02):
about marketing, and I was like yep. But towards the
end he was really impressed with how much I learned
and I fell in love with marketing as a whole.
So that was incredible, And then went back to school
for my senior at Clemson and we graduated and applied here.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
What are the differences between designing for college football and
professional football?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Yeah, huge difference. I designed specifically for recruits in Clemson football,
so it was more of designing or how can we
I feel like that had a more marketing brand, like
what designs can we make to persuade these recruits to
come to Clemson. So, like one graphic I had made
was an l I and I had like made a
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graphic of that on the table and had different hats
of different things of recruit grabbing the Clemson hat. And
that's just like fun visual graphics that we would make
to like picture themselves coming to Clemson, like signing to Clemson.
So that's a fun way that we designed at Clemson.
Whereas like on an NFL team, obviously they're here, they've
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already been signed a fee here, so you're just designing
for like the fan base and like how to capture
like the awards that they've won and all these things.
But yeah, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Do you have a favorite project you've worked on while
you've been here.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I have so many. We just did our internship presentations
and I gave.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
It was really hard because it was like, what were
you most proud of? And I couldn't choose, so I
how to do three, but I chose I'll mention one
of them was the my Cousmic cleats. That one was
super fun because most of the time we're always behind
the computer designing, and this was the first time that
we got to like be behind or at least for me,
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be behind the scenes, like in a photo shoot with
Tee or a photographer and set the shoes up and
kind of like see the whole project come to life
into the graphics from start to finish.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And that was really fun for me.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And then I got to work with the digital team
as well and make that website with them.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
So it was a really fun project.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
And that was one of the first times that I
got to lead a project and come up with the
look on its own and it looked great.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Thank you, dead, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I want to go back to you deciding to major
in graphic design.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I know obviously it's not always tied to marketing.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You said when you entered Nike you didn't really know
much about marketing. But what got you interested in pursuing
graphic communications?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yeah, So when I was deciding where to go to
school or what I wanted to major in, I was
an athlete in high school and I wanted to go
to school for rowing, and this is not what you're
supposed to do. But I decided on where I wanted
to go to school based off the rowing teams, and
so I was really just like in the recruitment process
talking to coaches, and from there, the coaches would ask like,
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what do you want to major in? And I would
say that I'm not sure yet, either business or something
that's crazy. So each school was different, Like I looked
in West Virginia they had interior design. I was looking there,
Oregon State, I think had graphic design. Was looking at
random schools with different majors, and so the only creative
major that Clemson had was called graphic communications, which I
(15:17):
had no idea what that even meant. And so I
ended up loving Clemson for the rowing team, and so
I chose I signed to Clemson. And then my mom
was actually the one that was like, graphic communication seems
like is what you should do?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And I was like, okay, Mom, I trust you.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
And then when I got to Clemson and we got
to graphic communications.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It was.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
It turned out to be like a really heavy print major.
So you learn about all these printing machines like screen printing, flexo, printing,
ink jet, like you name it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And it's more. I was like, am I like an
engineering major?
Speaker 6 (15:54):
Like I was, really you could start a newspaper if
you want, I could, I could print, I could design,
and I could print you a newspaper.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But yeah, that was super interesting.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
And then but you still learn all the Adobe softwares
and also with your internships that you choose to do,
you can really choose how you want this major to
go for you. And there's so many different classes you
can take. And I'm really happy that I did this
major because I think it makes me really well rounded
when it comes to designing for certain things, how to
export different files, and it goes into the nitty gritty
(16:26):
of design.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But yeah, that's that's actually a great transition. Like what
was it like being a student athlete in college? I
know you said rowing. There was like one girl my
freshman year who was on the rowing team and she
would be up at like five am, which sounds horrible.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Yeah, that was it was fun. I'd say it's a
it's like the hardest thing you do and the most
rewarding thing that you do, like being a student athlete. Yes,
we had to wake up at five am every morning.
Our practice FRA was like two and a half hours,
like six to eight thirty. Then you had another practice
in the afternoon or on your own workout or weights,
(17:04):
and then managing school on top of that. But then
you also get on the other end the most support
ever and you I think I would not be where
I am today without my teammates, without the support system
we had. I mean the internship that I got here,
I would not have gotten without the student athlete development
people at Clemson who helped me prep for every interview
(17:26):
or set up my resume and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So it's a really.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Hard balance and it was something that made me grow tremendously,
So it was really fun.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
While you were in college, you came into some TikTok fame.
How have you used social media to like obviously you
said that you found like sports internships through your TikTok,
but how have used your personal social to enhance your
professional brand?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
When I came into college, I found the fame through
my room. So she had been a huge TikToker in
high school, Like she loved to do the dances on
TikTok and when I got when I started roomming with her,
she would be like, you know, like come do.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
These dances with me.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
And I was like, Oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing,
but they were so fun. And we ended up doing
a TikTok dance our first month at school and it
kind of blew up a little bit just in like
the Clemson area, and people were recognizing us in class
they were like, oh, we saw your TikTok video was like, this.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Is really embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
And then from there as well, like we were a
little freshman on the rowing team. There's eighty girls on
a rowing team, or probably like sixty girls in a
rowing team, and they were all like roasting us like oh, we.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Saw your TikTok. You should do the dance right now.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
And we're like, oh, this is horrible, but yeah, that
was really fun to do with her, and like throughout COVID,
like that's the thing that we would do is like
TikTok dances. And then I never really personally grew my
own TikTok page like I do some videos here and there,
but mine never blew up unfortunately. And then Instagram, like
I just always loved editing photos and like doing carousels
(19:09):
and taking pictures of places that I travel, so that's fun,
but I never really, like, I don't know, established a
brand for myself on or on TikToker socials.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So quick story time, we were on our way to
pottery for some reason, I don't know, it was very therapeutic. Regardless,
we were on the way to pottery one day after
work and I had mentioned you, I think my tire's flat,
and you came out and you looked and you're like,
your tire is definitely flat from like you.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Know, the the eye.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Yes, But then but then you pulled out this tool
that allowed me to see exactly my tire pressure. And
you said, oh, I learned this in college because my
rowing coach had something called four real Fridays. Yes, you
tell us about four real Fridays and what else you learned?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Okay, Well, first, I hope that other people know what
this is, and if not, I guess this is a
good learning lesson. But if your tire's flat, everyone needs
a tire gauge in their car and Haley's nodding her head.
I think she knows what this is. So Patty, I'm
a little.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Multiple tire issues since she started working here.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
And you know what, I think it's a Bay Area thing.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'm not the only one, So anyone who is listening locally.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
If you've ever been to Levi Stadium, there's like a
bridge right next to the Toyota gate f entrance, and
she had to pull over on the bridge because she
had a flat.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Tire, literally during like rush hour.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Oh my gosh, this first change a tire.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
This is the thing. I think there's just like a
lot of construction.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
In the Bay.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yeah, Patty doesn't know how to do a nail. A
nail gets stuck in your tire whatever.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
We did that on the way to Sacramento too. We
had to stop and put.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Because my cars have been so old that they don't
it doesn't notify you if your tire's flat because my
cars are like they're just older.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
So you kind of have to just know by feeling or.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
What we were.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
We were in traffic and a guy rolled down his
window and was like trying to get her attention, and
we were in traffic on the highway and he goes,
your tire is.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Flat, but like, neither of us had any idea, like,
so it's not a feeling. Yeah, I don't know, or
just you know, a good samaritan along the road.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
But go on, I think that you need new tires.
If they're old, you can get new tires. It's not
like a car. We had to buy a new car.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes, I am aware.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I could just buy new tires or I could take
it in to get patched. Because in our instance for
this story, which we've you know, there's been a huge tangent.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Sorry, I was able to locate the.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Nail in my tire and I brought it into a
shop and he said, it's a good thing. It's in
this place where you can patch it versus completely replace
the tire groove.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yeah, okay, so yes for real fridays. So during COVID,
we still had practices. That was actually the only thing
that we had going on at Clemson. Everything was online
except for practice, but we were still in like cohorts,
Like I couldn't even see my whole team. I was
specifically assigned to a group, and our coaches came up
(22:16):
with this idea. I don't know how they came up
with the idea, but on Fridays we would usually have
team bonding and they were kind of like, let's think
of a new fun idea to help these girls like
with real world experiences that could happen to them, and
let's help them like for their future, because college you
learn a lot about a thing, a lot of things
about what you're about to do in your career, but
(22:38):
for real life, like, let's teach them some things during
team bonding time. So our first lesson for four real
fridays is what they named it was how to replace attire,
how to put a spare on your car. And our
coaches pulled their cars in front of our rowing facility
and they replaced They taught us and we all together
(22:58):
like I don't I mean, I don't remember like exactly
every word that everything that we did, but we took
the tire off their car, put the little donut on theirs,
and then took the donut off and then put their
real tire back on. And we had two different cars
that we were doing that too, and it was a
really it was a really fun activity. And now I
feel confident like if I were to have a flat tire,
(23:19):
like Patty to be self sufficient and like replace my
own tire. We also did we had one of our
coaches I think, does father in law come in teach
us some finance lessons. I'm sad to say that I
don't really remember anything from that lesson, but my most
I think the most fun for real Friday that we
did was self defense class. And we had someone come
(23:42):
in and teach us self defense. We broke wood in half.
We learned, like in certain situations what to do a
lot of situations you have to grab the thumbs and
pull them backwards.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
It's a really sensitive stot for people.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
But I feel like misc geniality just taught me that
there's to do like.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What solar sing sing Solar plans in step nose growing.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I no, I haven't. Well we need
we need to do that soon. Yeah. That could be
like incorporated into maybe another four reel Friday. Well, I
clearly don't know what this is.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I ask someone like who graduated recently, for people who
are graduating maybe this year, next year and want to
get into the sports industry, what kind of advice do
you have for them?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Ooh definitely, Well, I mean I found mine through TikTok,
and I think for our day and Angel is super resourceful,
Like I will go on there and like search things
like when I first got the internship, I searched like
forty nine ers employee and some people do like day
in the life of employee forty nine ers. From there,
you can get into like a whole tunnel of like
(24:54):
how I got into the sports industry. And there's so
many different girls or women or even just anyone post
like advice and help, and so my advice is to
go look for more advice on TikTok. But because I
think everyone has a different path on how to get
into the sports industry. And if you're fortunate enough to
be at a school that gives you opportunities to be
(25:15):
a part of your athletics program, I think that's huge
as well. And I think that's how a lot of
people like get involved and then get those connections and
get those resume builders. And then on top of that,
if you have the opportunity to get into this world,
use that and be curious, be a sponge. And I
think the most important thing you can do is just
(25:37):
ask questions and try to learn as much as you
can The thing that I try to do.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The most is, which I hope you guys have noticed.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Here, is like try to get to know everyone around
your office and talk to them, ask them how they've
got here, what they did to do to get here,
what they do now. There's so many different things you
can do in sports, and so to learn each thing
is really cool and.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Really interesting to me.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
And yeah, but I I think that's the advice that
I've gotten from other people and I've taken here.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Before we get to the final question that we ask everybody, Wow,
that's fat. This might be a loaded one. But what
is next for you in a warwork? And maybe you
don't know yet because you know you've just completed this internship,
but maybe what's next?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And like where do you maybe want to be in
like five years.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's like I'm going to sleep for the next week.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Oh my gosh, this is a loaded question. In five years. Hmmm.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
I definitely want to keep growing in design. From being here,
I've grown a lot, but there's I've realized there's just
so much more I could learn. Like something personally I
really want to learn is how to do motion design.
I only know how to do stills, right, now and
Noah and Vents on our design team are really and Aaron,
all of them are really good at motion design, and
(26:52):
so that's something that I want to take upon myself
and really learn. And in the season I tried a
little bit, but it's really hard with our schedules. So
now that I'm less busy, that's something that I want
to learn. But in five years, I think that I
want to grow in marketing as a whole. I'm from
being in the brand marketing side at Nike. I learned
(27:13):
a lot about like strategy and all these things, and
so I want to keep growing in that space and
even maybe like the analytics side, Like I just want
to be really well rounded in the marketing space to
hopefully grow as like a leader when I'm older.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's better than like I could have said after, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Better than I could say like now, okay.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Okay, final question. We asked this to everyone.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
If you're a listener, even know and so obviously you've
seen your fair share of job descriptions. I mean, you
applied to thirty out of college, which is actually really impressive.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, I don't know if I'll do that again.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
There's always that ominous other duties as assigned bullet Point
at what like? Did you have any of those experiences
during your turn ship here?
Speaker 6 (28:01):
I had a ton, and Patty knows this very well,
but I think the one that stuck out the most
was definitely being a model for Levi's. And I say
this heavily because I unfortunately didn't make the cut and
I'm still salty about it. Levi's, I love you, I
(28:23):
love your brand.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
You're wearing the gear neck.
Speaker 6 (28:25):
I am actually wearing the stuff that I modeled, so
I guess I'm not that salty about it, but I
am a little salty because I didn't make the cut.
And I edited my own self into the post because
I'm on the graphic design team. But yeah, So basically,
we did a Levi's forty nine ers collection special limited
edition and our photographer Tea got sent like the apparel
(28:50):
for it, and he just went around the office and
was like, can you be a model tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Can you be a model tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (28:56):
And so he asked me to be a model for
the denim jacket. I was like, of course, Like it's
so fun, and so the next day I get ready,
I you know, I put my makeup on, ready to
be a model, and I get behind the camera or yeah, no,
in front of the camera, which is different for me,
and we modeled and it was really fun. It was
it was really scary. Actually, I was like, I don't
(29:16):
know how to act in front of a camera.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
It's weird. But yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Then follow like a few weeks later, Patty comes to
me and she's like, I have the photos. We need
to edit them and mock them up to send to Levi's.
It's like okay, and there was me, Patty was a model,
Aaron other like Nigel, even Tea, the owned photographer, was
a model, which is kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That was really cool. But it was a really fun project.
And then we sent it to Levi's and they go, yeah,
can we take can we take this person?
Speaker 6 (29:47):
And I didn't know this because I wasn't on the
email chain. And the next morning I see the post
on Instagram. I was like, oh yeah, I'm scrolling through
and then I get to the end and I'm like, wait,
what I'm not on But yeah, so I guess that
was a huge Other other duties as assigned a little
modeling action. I will use that picture to my own
advanced as you should.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I could not posted it yet. No, maybe that's how
I'll start growing my brand on Instagram. There we go.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, that was the most like meta experience because you're
like editing your own photos like you're editing photos of
your coworkers. Yeah, I'm literally posting like this feels like
a big red flag as like a social media manager,
like putting yourself in a post that lives on the
team page is so weird.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Yeah, it's like you're you're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
No, that I felt like really taboo like. But no,
that was fun.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
And I will say I have used that anecdote where
you know, I'm going through internship interviews now and some
have asked me like what's a good quality like name,
like what would make a good intern?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
And I said, you know what.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I went to our design intern with a last minute
project and it was this Levi's collapse. I went her
at like five pm and I said, we needed something
visual like Levi's needs to see exactly like what we're
gonna post because they've had such a heavy hand in it,
and it like I could type it out, but I
think they just really need to see something.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
And she's like, Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
So like we were like googling, like Instagram, like mock
ups and like the font even she was going above
and beyond for something that ended up.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's just funny now thinking about.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
It, because obviously they would a different direction usually, but
like so much of that was because.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Of what Yah helps me.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
The post would not have happened without the models or
the work that models did behind the scenes. Very true,
very well rounded. Yeah, it was still fun to work
on it. I mean it was really cool to even
see your coworkers be models, Like that's really fun and
like hype them up.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
So it was really funny. But yeah, one day I'll
be a model.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Maybe we'll just bring you back for any modeling thing.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, eventually freelanced me for that, not just modeling.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Well, Anna, thank you so much for being on the podcast.
This was really fun. Thank you guys.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Am I the first official intern to ever be on
a podcast. Yeah, inside the other I'm really honored and
I'm really happy that you guys were my hosts for
that to be a part of this day for me.
You know, I didn't no longer scared of it. Yeah,
I'm no longer scared of them. They're actually my best
friends now. And I didn't get the modeling career, but
maybe a podcast career in the future.
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