How a Love of New England and a Love of Sports Led Alex Dumais ’24 to Assumption – and the Worcester Red Sox 

Despite being born and raised in Houston, Texas, Alexandra (Alex) Dumais ’24, who currently works for the Worcester Red Sox (WooSox) as Coordinator of Administration and Fan Services, has had a connection to Assumption her entire life.  

“Both of my parents are graduates of Assumption. Every summer, my dad, my sister, and I would road trip up from Texas to Johnston, Rhode Island, where his parents, my grandparents, live, and we would spend two weeks in New England,” Dumais said. “I fell in love with New England when I was ten years old.” 

This connection, along with her love of sports, driven by her family’s love of Boston sports teams and her involvement in soccer from the age of four, led her to join Assumption’s class of 2024. At Assumption, she majored in marketing with minors in sport management and core texts and enduring questions (CTEQ).  

“A big reason why I chose Assumption was because I knew I wanted to go into sports. I knew I wanted to work in baseball,” she said. “When I was a senior in high school, I hopped on a call with a professor who explained to me that Assumption was going to be a founding partner of the Worcester Red Sox and that Assumption students were going to have a lot of opportunities through that.”  

During the summer of 2023, Dumais had one of those opportunities; she became a marketing intern with the WooSox through their summer internship program.  

“I did a lot of grassroots outreach, jumping in the mascot suit, all kinds of fun things,” she said. “After that summer ended, they offered for me to stay on the team through the fall semester, and that was awesome.”  

Dumais continued her internship with the WooSox through the fall, while also juggling academic courses, playing NCAA Division II soccer as team captain, serving as the Senate Speaker in Student Government Association, and serving as President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), among other obligations.  

For the spring semester, Dumais enrolled in an Internship in Business course that semester with Associate Professor J. Bart Morrison to supplement her work with the WooSox.  

“Professor Morrison would really emphasize that the course itself was the internship, and the class time we had was a supplement to that,” she said. “Every day, we were reflecting on our internship in class, talking to each other about our experiences, learning from each other. We also filled out a workbook through that course that helped me with self-reflection and to learn what kind of worker I am, what motivates me…Taking that class along with my internship was pivotal in my learning.” 

During that semester, Dumais’ internship experience changed, offering her more experience in the business side of minor league baseball.  

“I was still going out into the community, doing lots of grassroots outreach, but I also started immersing myself more and more into the office work,” she said. “I joined more meetings, made more connections, learned so much more about our company.” 

In July of 2024, after continuing with the organization as an intern through the summer, Dumais was offered her current full-time position with the WooSox as Coordinator of Administration and Fan Services. In her position, she works with several different departments across the organization, including marketing, human resources, and community relations.  

“Being able to stretch yourself enough where you can take on all the responsibility that is thrown at you is one thing that Assumption certainly prepared me for,” said Dumais. “I wore many hats at Assumption, and that translates perfectly here. I work in a lot of different areas, different departments…that’s kind of the nature of minor league baseball. My responsibilities are vast, but it’s something I’m used to coming from Assumption.”  

Dumais credits her time as captain of Assumption’s women’s soccer team and her leadership opportunities across campus as the most impactful experiences she had as an undergraduate, granting her the ability to be a confident leader in her current position.   

“The leadership skills that I gained, the networking experience that I got, and the overwhelming supportive nature of our team as a whole…I’ve learned so much that I’ve translated into my work now,” she said. “I learned how to communicate one on one with my peers, as well as in front of a big group, and I can see that those skills translate here. As my role here with the WooSox has expanded, I’ve been leading meetings, and I could not have seen myself being able to run these meetings confidently without the experience of being Senate Speaker or SAAC President.”  

On the academic side, Dumais is a strong advocate for other students to take advantage of experiential learning opportunities at Assumption to truly put what is learned in the classroom into action in a career setting.   

“Experiential learning gives you the capability to take the things you’ve learned in class and apply them to the world around you,” she said. “My first year, I took an Intro to Marketing course, and the marketing and management courses that I took throughout my four years at Assumption just kept building upon each other. By the time I became an intern in the WooSox front office, I could really take pieces that I learned from my courses and apply them here.”   

Dumais says her story is a testament to the relationship Assumption has with the WooSox, as it was through Assumption that she was able to both learn about and experience working in sports. This experience has been rewarding for Dumais in a number of ways, including having the opportunity to work in her dream career field whilst having a larger impact on the community through minor league baseball.   

“My favorite part of my job is interacting with fans inside and outside the ballpark, especially when the Central MASScots are around. Every time you see the Smiley Ball, you can’t help but smile, or give him a hug or a high five,” she said. “Seeing the impact our organization has had on not only the city of Worcester, but the state of Massachusetts, northern Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire, and we’re only in our fifth year as a business. We’re just going to keep spreading that love throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.”   

Her story continues, as she aspires to go even further in her baseball career, taking her Assumption, experiential learning, and WooSox experiences with her on her journey.  

“I love being able to interact with folks of all ages, from two to ninety-two,” she said. “My dream is to end up at Fenway someday.”