Small school, big experiences. That describes Brandon William’s
undergraduate experience at Wilmington College.
Located just outside of Dayton, Ohio where Williams grew up, he got far
more than he expected when joining the local Sports club. Before graduating Williams was able to
attend and volunteer at two Super Bowls
and last year’s College Football Championship.
Williams was eager to get involved in an organization that
encouraged volunteering. The local director of the sports club was well
connected and was able to give the students the opportunity to volunteer in the
community and at these championship games.
Prior to attending the 2017 Super Bowl, Williams spent six weeks
volunteering in the community. This past year he volunteered at Super Bowl 52 in
Minnesota, and also traveled to Atlanta for the CFP championship game. He never
thought he would get the chance to attend these types of games in his life, yet
alone before he was even a college graduate.
--Kendra Sheehan
Interview Transcript
Q: If you could travel anywhere
in the world, where would you go?
A: I would have. Puerto
Rico. I have no reason. It's something that's always been a dream destination
for me since I've been younger like I've just seen pictures and the water it
looks so nice. And I like I can't swim but I would like to jump off one of
those cliffs in Puerto Rico
Q: What was your favorite vacation?
A: I went to the Dominican Republic in I think it was 2007
for my uncles wedding. That was pretty cool especially because it was like all
the expenses paid for. So I think I got down and went to restaurants and it was
free because it was on the resort, well it wasn’t free but it was already paid
for. So you know we can go to the little bar in the pool and stuff like that so
that was pretty legit. So I really enjoyed it.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
A: 20 years. Hopefully established in sports and film
industry like maybe doing sports documentaries so a way to tie them together.
Those are two things I want to do in this film - is sports I think sports documentaries will be
my way to clash my two interests together.
Q: What pets do you own?
A: Well it's not
exactly my pet but my uncle lives with me so he has a dog. The dog's name is
Rocky. He is a pit mix with something. He's
a wild dog and he's a big dog. But you know we love him.
Q: If you could own any animal as a pet what would it be?
A: I would say a monkey. Just so it can hang around my neck
and run around me. So yeah a monkey.
Q: Where did you grow up?
A: I grew up in Dayton Ohio. Born and raised
Q: Have you lived anywhere else?
A: No I was only like 15 minutes away from Dayton for grad
school.
Q: Where did you go for your undergrad?
A: It’s a small school called Wilmington College like and
the country is like 50 minutes away from Cincinnati, Dayton, or Columbus, so if
I did want to go on the weekends it was right in the central area, where I
could go to those nice parties and stuff like that and other schools.
Q: What was your major in?
A: Communication Arts and I had a minor in Business
Administration
Q: If you could live anywhere where would it be?
A: You know what I would probably say Canada. And I say
Canada because I work at Finish Line at Destiny USA at the mall and I've had
two customers for the past two days from Canada coming to talk to me about
stuff like that and they really sold me on it like so I want to go on a
vacation there soon. And I might want to live there right.
Q: What is something unique about you?
A: Well I have had some unique experiences like I've been
into two Super Bowls and the last college football championship. At my school
undergrad, we had a school called the Sports Club and the director of a sports
club he was over the Sports Management major. He has some connects, so people
who knew how to volunteer for the Super Bowl and what not. So we went so the
year before we went to Houston volunteer for six weeks. Then this past year we
were in Minnesota and then we were in Atlanta this past year also for college
football championships. And not only do we get to volunteer through the league. We got to go
into the games and like that's something I never thought I'd do like even
before 22 or whatever. I never thought I would do that in a lifetime. So like
that's some pretty unique experiences I would say. It's still crazy for me to
think about like I did it. But it's like I remember seeing the games with my
eyes and just like man I still don't believe it. But it was wid.
Q: What is your
favorite restaurant?
A: I like TGI Fridays.
I love ribs and I love TGI Fridays ribs. It's really good.
Q: How many siblings
do you have?
A: I have two, no I actually have three. I have three
siblings. One lives in Detroit Michigan and the other two live in California.
One is in Sacramento, California and the other is in Oakland California.
Q: What are their names?
A: Okay so the one in Detroit is Malic. He's only 6 months
younger than me. You can do the math, its not by the same mom you can do the
math. I have a sister Neveah and I have a brother, his name is Marc
Q: Are you close with your siblings?
A: I am close with my siblings. All younger than me. I do
talk to them a lot though. I want to go see them. He's not my youngest brother
he's my oldest brother but he actually went to undergrad like 20 minutes away
from me so that was an opportunity for us to kind of like visit and stuff like
that because he's usually 3 hours away. So his school and my school were like 20 minutes away so I was
able to become closer to him through that. And then I just talked to my other
siblings. I've been out there to visit them 3 times in California, so I want to
go see them pretty soon.
Audio:
https://soundcloud.com/user-791769018/brandon-williams-sce-interview
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