{"id":25960,"date":"2014-01-16T18:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=25960"},"modified":"2014-01-17T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:38:34","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-visit-brock-university-to-school-sport-management-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/01\/toronto-blue-jays-visit-brock-university-to-school-sport-management-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays visit Brock to school sport management students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25961\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/brock-blue_jays-banner.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25961\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25961\" title=\"brock-blue_jays-banner\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/brock-blue_jays-banner-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto Blue Jays players (from left) Esmil Rogers, Dustin McGowan and Todd Redmond speaking to a class of sport management students at Brock University.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Blue Jays players (from left) Esmil Rogers, Dustin McGowan and Todd Redmond speaking to a class of sport management students at Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 250 sport management students at Brock got a taste of the big leagues today when players and personnel from the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club stopped by the school for an in-class talk and Q&amp;A with students.<\/p>\n<p>The stop, part of the team&#8217;s fourth annual Winter Tour presented by TD, was organized by Holly Gentemann, a Brock sport management alumna who now works for the Blue Jays organization as manager of community marketing and player relations.<\/p>\n<p>The event, moderated by Sportsnet analyst Jamie Campbell, featured Blue Jays players Dustin McGowan (pitcher), Esmil Rogers (pitcher), Todd Redmond (pitcher) and Brandon Morrow (pitcher).<\/p>\n<p>The panel also featured Jay Stenhouse, Vice-President, Communications; Danielle Bedasse, Executive Director, Jays Care Foundation; Anthony Partipilo, Vice-President, Marketing and Merchandising; Stephen Brooks, Senior Vice-President, Business Operations; and Assistant General Manager Andrew Tinnish, also a Brock sport management alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Brock is the only university in Canada granting a specialized Bachelor of Sport Management degree. Now in its second decade, the program has a strong reputation within the sport industry for the quality of its students and graduates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_25971\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/brocku-bluejays-4.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25971\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25971 \" title=\"brocku-bluejays-4\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/brocku-bluejays-4-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"(from left): \" width=\"504\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(from left): Toronto Blue Jays Assistant General Manager and Brock SPMA alumnus Andrew Tinnish and Blue Jays pitchers Esmil Rogers, Dustin McGowan, Todd Redmond and Brandon Morrow. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 sport management students at Brock University in St. Catharines got a taste of the big leagues today when players and personnel from the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club stopped by the school for an in-class talk and Q&#038;A with students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[28,57,349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25960"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25968,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25960\/revisions\/25968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}