When the next-to-last rankings for the College Football Playoffs are revealed tonight on ESPN, a trio of Covenant College students and their assistant professor of sports management will have more than a passing interest in the proceedings, despite the school having no football team.
That’s because all four of them will be working the CFP national title game come Monday night, January 11, at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.
“Through an official partnership with Shenandoah University we have been invited to bring three students to the National Championship Game,” wrote Michaela Kourmoulis, an assistant professor of Sport Management at Covenant College, in an email a few weeks ago.
“Interested students had to submit a resume, cover letter, and do an in-person interview to be considered for the opportunity.”
Of the 12 who applied, senior William Wallace and juniors Olivia Sanders and Kailey Burrell were chosen. The three of them, plus Kourmoulis, will arrive in Miami sometime during the week before the game, where they may be asked to do anything from hosting hospitality tents to overseeing game-week access to players and coaches to working on stat crews.