Secure. Promote. Create. Execute. Host.

Pictured is the Oklahoma City All Sports Staff. From left: Jordan Satarawala, Brittany Hussain, Tim Brassfield, Megan McGuire, and David Forester.

By: Kati O'Kelley

Megan McGuire graduated in 2008 with a bachelors degree in Public Relations from Oklahoma State University. During her college years, she served as a public relations representative for OSU's Greek organizations, Orange Peel, campus communication services at OSU, and Varsity Review. She also served as an intern for the Oklahoma Film and Music Office and was a lab instructor and teacher's assistant for media classes at OSU. Megan decided to get into public relations because she loved to write but didn't want to be an English major. She loved how PR mixed journalism and writing.

Today, Megan serves as the Manager, Events and Public Relations Specialist for the Oklahoma City All Sports Association. Oklahoma City All Sports Association is a non-profit corporation that creates, pursues, promotes, hosts, executes and secures quality athletic competitions in the state of Oklahoma. Megan has been at Oklahoma City All Sports since August of 2008 and has loved the diversity of her job. Megan does many different jobs such as shopping for center pieces for tables at events and sponsor gift baskets, writing news releases, interviewing potential interns, getting logistics such as police set up for events, and working with different sports mangers from across the country. Some of the events that Oklahoma City All Sports is putting on this year are: the All-College Basketball Classic, Sooner State Games, NCAA Women's College World Series, 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball 1st and 2nd Round, Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship, Big 12 Softball and the State Games. At least $30,000,000 in new money is brought to Oklahoma City every year as a result of these events.

In the future Megan plans on staying with Oklahoma City All Sports until she feels the need to move on. Megan says that in the future she would love to keep working at non-profits and would like to work for a company that helps people.

Megan's advice to future PR practitioners is, "Any position is what you make it. If you don't like what you are doing, change it. Don't think that what you do, no matter how small it may seem to you, goes unnoticed. And always keep your PR Style book with you!"