LTC 625 - Management of Game and Event Announcing (12:30 PM-4:30 PM)

This course is designed to assist athletic administrators in understanding their role in managing public address (P.A.) announcing at their contests and events. Topics include the role of the athletic administrator in hiring, training, and evaluating announcers; developing expectations for their announcers and strategies for communicating the role of the public address announcer in an interscholastic setting. Course points include guidelines and code of conduct for P.A. announcers; the role of the announcer in promoting good sportsmanship; guidelines for script writing/editing; developing emergency situation/security announcements and discussion/examples of “do’s” and “don’ts” of public address announcing.