Athlete Management

This document provides detailed information on athlete management, including administrative tasks, sponsorship proposals, crisis management plans, and more. It covers topics such as the roles and responsibilities of race administrators, strategies for securing sponsorships, and emergency plans for race events. The document also includes a budget for athlete management and references for further reading.

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Athlete Management
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Table of Contents
Detail Administrative Task for executing the plan for Javelin........................................................2
Proposal for Sponsorship for Javelin...............................................................................................3
Crisis Management plan for Javelin................................................................................................4
Press release.....................................................................................................................................5
Budget of athlete inclusive of estimated earning of the year...........................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................9
Appendix........................................................................................................................................11

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Detail Administrative Task for executing the plan for Javelin
Willed Sports Enterprise aims to run successful and focus on attending and well-attended
race program that comprises of
 Twenty-three criteria for race in Melbourne between October and April.
 One single trophy with the northern combine in between August and September.
 Other combine road races
 Road Club championship in August.
Willed Sports Enterprise is mainly focusing on appointing for a paid time for race
administrator for fulling the routine task which undertakes the racing for Kelsey Lee Barber
(Gabbett 2019). The mere focus is on the racing event. Racing Administrator will merely focus
on closely with the race administrator. The Race director and chair of Race subcommittee that
aims to maintain the strategic and planning of overall responsibility for the present racing event
that is Athlead. The coordinator will advise the member for the time and day, which is scheduled
for marshal (Sanderson, Frederick and Stocz 2016). It merely tends to provide all the required
information concerning roles and responsibilities. In this racing event, member cannot attend or
look for a replacement along with keeping race commissaries to be completely informed (Saw,
Main and Gastin 2015). Qualified commissaries are completely responsible for the proper
execution of race event.
Roles and Responsibility of Kelsey
The overall roles and responsibility of race administrator has been described below like
 Race administrator is responsible for race director, which is needed for understanding the
particular or given event.

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 Race administrator can easily work on close by which they can collaborate with the
Marshal Coordinator, club administrator, desk coordinator.
 As soon as the races are sponsored it can include a particular social element for the race
administrator that can work closely with sponsorship director (Al Shobaki, Amuna and
Naser 2016). It will merely provide the access plan and provide specific needs and
requirement.
 Race administrative needs to have overall administrative and logistic responsibility,
which can come up with the responsibility to ensure the task. It is mainly undertaken for
racing events where coordination and timely way (Al Shobaki, Amuna and Naser 2016).
It is all about having consistent with permits that are being given by local government
and policies.
Proposal for Sponsorship for Javelin
Sponsorship can be stated as the commercial arrangement, which merely focuses various
kind of parties that is needed by both the parties (Raviya and Barad 2016). It is mainly needed
for having a commercial gain that is direct or indirect gain for commercial gain. There are large
number of methods for getting the proposal for the racing event like
Getting the right person: As soon as the suitable organization has been identified, then
this race administrator needs to make contact for the right person. It is mainly needed for
discussing with the sponsorship proposal (Christensen et al. 2016). The best thing is all about
getting the right person in the method of decision making.
First Contact: The main notion of this particular objective is all about making first
contact with the sponsor, which is needed by credible partners (Dayton and Bernhardsdottir
2015). The second aspect is all about securing the follow-up call or even meeting.

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Preparing a winning sponsorship proposal: Sponsorship is all about understanding the
parameter they are after (Coombs and Laufer 2018). It is the instance of submitting the
sponsorship of proposal. This can be achieved by attainment of two important sign that is having
a talk of the thing they want and failing to align properly with the proposal.
Negotiation and Execution: Sponsor needs to agree to all the required proposal that is
inclusive of price as nothing has been done like sending a sponsorship letter or even agreement
(Braun 2015). In most of the cases, sponsor will come up question and have a counter offer
which is all about scope or price of sponsorship.
Delivery of Commitments: After getting the sponsorship agreement in a single unit, the
real world comes into picture (Stieglitz et al. 2018). Understanding of commitment will take
around realistic along with delivery of sponsorship that comes up down for given project
management. It merely comprises of various things like tracking of goals, updating sponsorship
and overall need.
Keeping the sponsor in long run: It is very much important to discuss by retaining the
sponsors in getting the things much easier in gaining the things done. Retaining of sponsorship is
not fully under control (Wolbers, Boersma and Groenewegen 2018). Sponsorship marketing will
make changes in the overall objectives and tools of the sponsor. It is mainly needed for
delivering them, which is inclusive of sponsorship that merely falls under the relevance.
Crisis Management plan for Javelin
Emergency plan is mainly designed for overall implementation in the given scenario that
mainly takes place for open test or even race event (Gabbett 2019). It is important to easily
coordinate with the team and promoters.

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Major Incident: The major incident can be stated as an incident in which there will be
involvement of materials that are very serious and require warrant of activities. It merely
inclusive of available resources for tackling the injuries and overall damage (Sanderson,
Frederick and Stocz 2016). It merely tends to differ from minor on-track incidents and
emergency that safety team and medical team will handle.
Natural Disaster: It is very inclusive of all the required possible of natural events like
severe storm and flooding (Saw, Main and Gastin 2015). The management will keep track of
pre-event meeting with promoter and key staff for coordinating with disaster activities.
Press release
Athletes from various location of Australia and around the world will set the Marathon.
The fidelity investment will be seen at this racing event of Athlead organization where the
director will invest (Al Shobaki, Amuna and Naser 2016). It merely comprises of race director
that comes up with two constituents on please of race day. The resident of Australia and runner
of 43 states and another state will descend Colombia.

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Budget of athlete inclusive of estimated earning of the year
Schedule of the Management Event for Javelin
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Project for Athlead 253 days Mon 20-05-19 Wed 06-05-20
Project Initiation 83 days Mon 20-05-19 Wed 11-09-19
Getting documents 15 days Mon 20-05-19 Fri 07-06-19
Setting goals 20 days Mon 10-06-19 Fri 05-07-19
Reserving place for location 13 days Mon 08-07-19 Wed 24-07-19
Analyzing the documents 30 days Thu 25-07-19 Wed 04-09-19
Finalizing the venue Five days Thu 05-09-19 Wed 11-09-19
Project Development 125 days Thu 12-09-19 Wed 04-03-20
Organizing Meetings 15 days Thu 12-09-19 Wed 02-10-19
Negotiating Prices Two days Thu 03-10-19 Fri 04-10-19
Finalizing documents 15 days Mon 07-10-19 Fri 25-10-19
Project Implementation 35 days Mon 28-10-19 Fri 13-12-19
Creating event page and registration
form 30 days Mon 16-12-19 Fri 24-01-20
Include other additional cash for the
sponsors 25 days Mon 27-01-20 Fri 28-02-20
Project Implementation Three days Mon 02-03-20 Wed 04-03-20
Pick Up athlete from location One day Mon 02-03-20 Mon 02-03-20
Foods required in event organized One day Tue 03-03-20 Tue 03-03-20
Drop athlete to location 1 day Wed 04-03-20 Wed 04-03-20
Closing the event 0 days Wed 04-03-20 Wed 04-03-20
Project closing 45 days Thu 05-03-20 Wed 06-05-20
Organizing meeting 29 days Thu 05-03-20 Tue 14-04-20
Making the payment 15 days Wed 15-04-20 Tue 05-05-20
Signing off the contract 1 day Wed 06-05-20 Wed 06-05-20
Closing the project 0 days Wed 06-05-20 Wed 06-05-20
Budget of the management event for Javelin
Task Name Resource Names Cost
Project for Athlead $728,720.00
Project Initiation $149,120.00
Getting documents Procurement Manager,
Project Manager $24,000.00
Setting goals Finance Manager, $36,800.00

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Procurement Manager,
Project Manager
Reserving place for location
Finance Manager,
Procurement Manager,
Project Manager
$23,920.00
Analyzing the documents
Finance Manager,
Procurement Manager,
Project Manager
$55,200.00
Finalizing the venue
Finance Manager,
Procurement Manager,
Project Manager
$9,200.00
Project Development $424,800.00
Organizing Meetings
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$51,600.00
Negotiating Prices
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$6,880.00
Finalizing documents
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$51,600.00
Project Implementation
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$120,400.00
Creating event page and registration
form
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$103,200.00
Include other additional cash for the
sponsors
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$86,000.00
Project Implementation $5,120.00
Pick Up athlete from location Event Manager, Kelsey
Lee Barber $1,600.00
Foods required in event organized
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Workers
$1,920.00
Drop athlete to location Event Manager, Kelsey
Lee Barber $1,600.00

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Closing the event Event Manager $0.00
Project closing $154,800.00
Organizing meeting
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$99,760.00
Making the payment
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$51,600.00
Signing off the contract
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$3,440.00
Closing the project
Event Manager, Finance
Manager, Kelsey Lee
Barber, Procurement
Manager, Project Manager
$0.00

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References
Al Shobaki, M.J., Amuna, Y.M.A. and Naser, S.S.A., 2016. The impact of top management
support for strategic planning on crisis management: Case study on UNRWA-Gaza Strip.
Braun, B., 2015. Preparedness, crisis management and policy change: The euro area at the
critical juncture of 2008–2013. The British Journal of Politics and International
Relations, 17(3), pp.419-441.
Bundy, J., Pfarrer, M.D., Short, C.E. and Coombs, W.T., 2017. Crises and crisis management:
Integration, interpretation, and research development. Journal of Management, 43(6), pp.1661-
1692.
Christensen, T., Andreas Danielsen, O.L.E., Laegreid, P. and H. RYKKJA, L.I.S.E., 2016.
Comparing coordination structures for crisis management in six countries. Public
Administration, 94(2), pp.316-332.
Coombs, W.T. and Laufer, D., 2018. Global Crisis Management–Current Research and Future
Directions. Journal of International Management, 24(3), pp.199-203.
Dayton, B.W. and Bernhardsdottir, A., 2015. Crisis management. Retrieved on 8th June.
Gabbett, T., 2019. Workload monitoring and athlete management.
Raviya, G.G.P. and Barad, V.G., 2016. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE ADOPTION OF
CRISIS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND SELECTED PROFILE CHARACTERISTICS
OF COTTON GROWERS. Gujarat Journal of Extension Education, p.67.
Sanderson, J., Frederick, E. and Stocz, M., 2016. When athlete activism clashes with group
values: Social identity threat management via social media. Mass Communication and
Society, 19(3), pp.301-322.

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Saw, A.E., Main, L.C. and Gastin, P.B., 2015. Role of a self-report measure in athlete
preparation. The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 29(3), pp.685-691.
Stieglitz, S., Mirbabaie, M., Fromm, J. and Melzer, S., 2018. The Adoption of Social Media
Analytics for Crisis Management-Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of the 26th
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Portsmouth, UK.
Wolbers, J., Boersma, K. and Groenewegen, P., 2018. Introducing a fragmentation perspective
on coordination in crisis management. Organization Studies, 39(11), pp.1521-1546.

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Appendix
Fig 1: Budget of the management event
(Source: Created by Author)

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Fig 2: Schedule of the Management Event
(Source: Created By Author)