Earlier this week we met Jordan Anderson, a Neuhoff Sports Media Camp veteran working at the Super Bowl as a social media producer. Another camp veteran working there is Luke Steiner, a 2017 graduate of Bismark-Henning High School (the final year before it became Bismark Henning Rossville Alvin).
Steiner remembers that his time at the Neuhoff Sports Media Camp began as something his mom figured he would like to do, and it grew from there, with something exciting right off the bat about ten years ago.
AUDIO: And that was year we did the Cardinals trip where we went to St. Louis, which was a lot of fun; and we went to the Rams’ stadium. It turned out to be something that I really, really enjoyed. And it got me started in the sports business, especially the journalism part; making sure I could do all the things at the (Danville) Dans games. And when Chad Dare came in a little later and I did all the writing stuffwith him, and then Fred Koerner before Chad.
Luke Steiner’s involvement with the Neuhoff Sports Media Camp began with a field trip to St. Louis in 2012.
Today, Steiner already has a Bachelor’s in Journalism from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio; and now he’s a graduate student in the Ohio U College of Business. The first year he received an MBA, and now he’s working on a Sports Management degree. As far as how he got involved with working the Super Bowl, where he’ll be in a supervisory role involving ticketing, he says it started with some connections he made, working another major sporting event.
AUDIO: We had an alumi of our undergrad sports management program who works for a company called CSC, which is Contempory Services Corporation. And they reached out to our program to actually work the Ryder Cup in Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and I was luckily selected to do that. The five graduate students that went impressed everyone enough, or they really just liked how we worked and the skills that we brought to the table.
Jordan Anderson (L) and Luke Steiner (R) in Los Angeles for Super Bowl
As for his future, Steiner already has a job as Director of Video for the Ohio U Athletic Department. But he knows anything is possible, going back to something he learned at the Neuhoff Sports Media Camp.
AUDIO: I remember Mike Hulvey, and I think former Mayor Scott Eisenhauer was helping at that time. He came to us and talked about how you always have to keep your options open, because you never know what’s going to be out there for you. And if I pigeonholed myself into something that I really was interested in at the time, I maybe would have never been able to work the Ryder Cup or to go to the Super Bowl and work.
Steiner was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles for the Super Bowl on Thursday, flying out of Columbus, Ohio.
