By Riley Crowell
Asst. Sports Editor
Junior Adrien Gobin is building an impressive résumé for herself. As a communication, media, and performance major with minors in marketing and sports management, she has also found time to be heavily involved in clubs and internships.
Gobin is the sports information intern for the Framingham State Athletic Department.
Her main responsibilities in the internship include making graphics for the scoreboard at Maple Street Field and creating content for the athletics social media page.
Assistant Athletic Director Larry Miller said the internship was created to help improve the athletic department’s social media presence and the quality of posts, as well as provide an opportunity for a student to get hands-on experience.
Gobin has posted short videos, highlights, and interviews of players to help give a spotlight to athletes’ performances and personalities.
She said these forms of content have helped improve engagement on the FSU athletics social media page - gaining interest from both student-athletes and non-student-athletes.
Another part of the internship has been assisting student-athletes with running the broadcasts for sporting events. She sets up the broadcast for them, makes it go live, and leaves the rest to them - ready to help when needed.
She said, “I’m their point of reference if they have any questions on how to do it or if anything goes technically wrong.”
Gobin is also a photos & design editor for The Gatepost - a time commitment of more than 20 hours a week.
Her responsibilities include taking and editing photos of campus and sporting events, creating photo and design spreads using Adobe InDesign, and assisting other section editors and staff with photos and layout.
Gobin also mentors other staff members and teaches them how to take and edit photos as well as use InDesign.
Gobin said, “My only experience going into my internship was my Gatepost graphic design experience. … I think that The Gatepost was the start of everything for me. It was what got me into sports in the first place.”
She said her experiences as sports information intern and photos & design editor will help her achieve her career goal of working in sports - specifically in photography, social media, and graphic design.
She also recently took part in a project in a sports broadcasting class taught by Professor Paul Bouley, Class of ’06.
In the project, Framingham State students produced two broadcasts of the Rams’ home football games Oct. 26 and Nov. 16.
Bouley said there was widespread interest across campus for a sports broadcasting class from both students and professors.
Miller and Bouley both hope the broadcasting class and FSU athletics will continue to work together in the future.
The broadcast consisted of seven roles - technical director, audio engineer, graphics operator, sideline reporter, play-by-play commentator, and two camera operators.
Gobin was the graphics operator for the first broadcast and a camera operator for the second. Getting multiple attempts at hands-on experience proved valuable for her. She was able to extend her knowledge to other students and hone her skills for potential future opportunities.
She said, “In the class, I learned the technical part, which is what I’m teaching the student-athletes. … That’s what I took from the class and put into my internship.”
Gobin hopes to continue working in and around athletics in her senior year. Having made such a positive impact during her time at FSU, the sky is the limit on what she’ll be able to achieve in the future.
[ Editor’s Note: Adrien Gobin is a Photos & Design Editor for The Gatepost. ]