HBCU softball player chosen for Nike internship

Courtesy of NCCU Athletics

DURHAM, N.C. – Current HBCU graduate Ashanti Eubanks of the North Carolina Central College (NCCU) softball workforce has been chosen to intern on the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon this summer season.

The ten-week internship begins on the primary week of June and wraps up in mid-August because the Eagles’ pitcher shares pleasure about being chosen for such a aggressive internship alternative.

“I’m most enthusiastic about exploring Beaverton and Portland, gaining advertising expertise firsthand, networking with people from throughout the nation, and naturally coaching in Nike amenities,” mentioned Eubanks.

The athletic model hosted a Kick It with Nike, Inc. occasion on NCCU’s campus in the course of the fall 2023 semester geared in the direction of NC Central student-athletes and highlighted work alternatives with Nike.

After Eubanks submitted an internship utility, she was invited to take part in three completely different digital interviews with the group. Members of the Nike World Headquarters’ model advertising workforce prolonged the provide to Eubanks to intern in the course of the summer season.

“After I first acquired the e-mail from Nike that they wished to proceed the interview course of I used to be hopeful, however as soon as I acquired the official internship provide I used to be excited and overjoyed,” mentioned Eubanks. “I simply saved thanking God for opening the door for the expertise at Nike, an organization important to my life-style and athletics.”

Ashanti Eubanks can be working within the model advertising division on the Nike campus. The enterprise administration graduate who additionally studied administration will workforce up with different interns from throughout the nation to execute varied tasks all through the summer season.

The Summerville, S.C. native earned her bachelor’s diploma in early Could, and out of doors of taking part in HBCU softball, she could be very concerned on campus at her HBCU. Eubanks is a member of the Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee, Profession Monetary Development Program, Beta Gamma Sigma, and NCCU’s Honors program with plans to proceed her training in pursuit of her skilled targets.

“I hope to achieve new abilities and expertise in an space of enterprise that I’ve restricted information in akin to advertising,” explains Eubanks. “I plan to pursue my grasp’s diploma in advertising and I wish to work in that subject for an expert sports activities workforce or develop into a collegiate pitching coach. My diploma and abilities discovered at Nike will permit me to perform each targets.”

Eubanks joins former NCCU softball outfielder Miriam Duen because the second participant in this system to journey to the West Coast to intern with the official attire accomplice of NCCU Athletics. Duen was a human useful resource and variety inclusion intern with Nike in 2018.

“We’re so excited for Ashanti and this superb alternative,” mentioned Lucy Mason, Assistant Director of Scholar-Athlete Expertise. “The internship is extraordinarily aggressive and it has been six years since our final student-athlete, Miriam Duen, was chosen. We’re dedicated to offering alternatives and programming that improve our student-athletes means to maximise their experiences as student-athletes and Ashanti is an instance of that.”