11/17/16 Project Decision

I have decided to partner with Hannah Shiffner to create a sports and diet magazine for our project. As a varsity and competitive athlete I know a lot about sports and the time and energy that goes in to creating a successful team. I do Varsity weightlifting, track, and cheer, while I also cheer competitively. One very important factor that goes in to being successful in my sports is eating healthy and having a precise workout plan. Hannah is going to focus on the diet section while I am focusing on the sports themselves. I will be interviewing athletes of many different sports, asking them about their workouts and how their teams work to become successful. I am considering doing a column called "A Week in the Life of an Athlete" in which I will pick one sport and follow one of the athletes around all week while experiencing their diet and workout plan for that week to get an inside scoop into the life of an athlete of that specific sport. My project will be unique from other sport and diet magazine because along with getting insight from the nutritionists and coaches I will be pairing up with an actual current athlete. Sarasota Florida is home to many great programs for athletics and it is only a few miles away from the prestigious IMG Academy which is a boarding school for great athletes. I cheered for IMG my 8th grade year and meet some of the athletes that go there and their life is extremely intense. This magazine will be very attractive so kids all around this area of Florida because majority of the kids participate in at least one sport. When distributing my project, I would aim to have it sold out of different sporting stores like Soccer Line, Fit to Run, etc. as well as healthy eat places such as the Fit to Run juice bar, Green Zebra, Smoothie King, etc. I believe this project will be very successful because Hannah and I are both very athletic and interested in this subject! - Hope Bumgarner