Micro Ethnographic Report

I'm at the Belmont baseball team's championship ring ceremony. Everyone is dressed nicely and there are lots of happy faces around the Vince Gill Room. The language from thre players in the room is almost completely about baseball. The coaches I overhear are speaking of this coming year and how much promise it holds. When the president of the school takes the stand  and the ceremony starts, he speaks a few words about last years performance, but quickly moves to his expectations for this year. It's very brief and the head coach walks up to the mic. He does not even speak of last year as much as the president, but instead starts using language like "repeat" and "back to back championships" and "NCAA Regional Championship." The rings are passed out and that concludes the banquet.

Something that surprised me was how much traffic there was throughout the courtyard. I don't know if I have never paid close enough attention or if maybe there are special times when I'm in class that the traffic is more frequent. It intrigued me that there was a rope swing tied to a tree in the middle of the courtyard. This seems like a very unorthodox place to have a ropeswing. I live off campus so I wouldn't know, but maybe after classes students use it. It disturbed me that I saw a mom walk into a guys dorm.

Project Specifics

I would like to study a fitness culture, in a gym with personal trainers and their clients. I have a connection with MAD Sports Training in Cool Springs. I would be able to study sever different personal trainers there. At MAD there is more than just weight training, they also train lacrosse, soccer, football, and baseball teams. A question I would like to answer is if the clients actually see gains in weight loss, strength, and muscle tone.

Project Idea

Based on all of the criteria as far as being accessible and something I'm interested in I have came to the conclusion that I want to do my reasearch on the Nashville Sounds baseball club. I know I will have to be more specific than that, but I in the next few classes I will work it down.