Conclusion- Brian Kochheiser

Sport and gender was a much more interesting and informative class than I had anticipated it to be at the beginning of the semester. Growing up, I was taught the importance of diversity and inclusion because of the fairly diverse area that I lived in. I thought that my experiences and education in high school and college thus far had given me great knowledge about sport and gender topics. While that is true, this class dove even deeper into the issues that society is still facing and how it impacts sports. I thought that all of the sections were interesting, but because I am interested in working in collegiate athletics and ultimately becoming the AD at a University, I found Title IX to be the most useful. The budgeting assignment was a lot of fun and it forced be to think outside of the box which will be useful in my future career. I'm glad that we were able to research topics further in depth at the end of the semester because diversity in the NHL was interest of mine. I played hockey all throughout my youth, so I was interested to learn more about the diversity in the NHL and the steps that it has taken in recent years. At first, I was skeptical about the blogs because I'm not always confident in expressing my thoughts to the public, but this semester has proved to me that I have valid thoughts and opinions and the blogs have given me confidence to share those more in other settings. Overall, this was a fantastic class that always made me think in other perspectives and I definitely learned a lot because of it. This class had great conversations throughout the semester and was one of the more fun class environments that I have been in at BGSU.