Texas A&M students test sport management skills at Cotton Bowl.

As Texas A&M University was facing off against Louisiana State University in the 75th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, a group of Aggies were getting real-world experience in the business of big-time college sports.



For the second year, 12 students from the Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics (LSIA) in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University served as representatives and hosts for the Cotton Bowl.




Students spent a week in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area assisting with event management and implementing a "guerrilla marketing" campaign to get the surrounding community involved in the Cotton Bowl.




Interns also attended a hospital visit with the Fighting Texas Aggies at The Children's Medical Center.




At the hospital, the interns set up bags filled with shirts and posters while players signed autographs for the children.

For more information about their trip, check out the LSIA Cotton Bowl Blog.

Give to the Texas A&M Department of Health and Kinesiology Excellence Fund online.

For more information about how you can support the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M, contact Steve Blomstedt ’83 of the Texas A&M Foundation at (800) 392-3310.