Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Lewis Bowling, speaking on the history of Duke football. Bowling is an author of numerous local and sports history books, including Duke Basketball: A Pictorial History, Alabama Football Tales, North Carolina Central University Athletics – A History of the Eagles, and Wallace Wade: Championship Years at Alabama and Duke. He has also written books about the history of Granville County and Oxford in particular – part of the “Images of America: North Carolina” series of books.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jolene Nagel, Head Volleyball Coach at Duke. Since becoming the Head Coach in 1999, Duke has earned a reputation as one of the elite programs on the East Coast. Nagel has led the Blue Devils to 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, including an ACC-record seven consecutive trips to the postseason event from 2005-11. A perennial contender in the ACC, Duke has recorded 20 or more wins14 times. Nagel earned her 600th career victory in 2017 as the Blue Devils downed TCU in straight sets. With the win, Nagel became the 22nd active NCAA Division I head coach to reach 600 career victories.
Nagel is the winningest Duke volleyball coach on record, and she also ranks among the league coaching leaders in overall winning percentage, ACC winning percentage, ACC wins and NCAA Tournament appearances.
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10/16/24 – Lewis Bowling, Author & Duke athletics Historian
11/6/24 – A Special Guest Speaker
11/20/24 – Cliff Godwin, Head Baseball Coach, East Carolina University
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9-18-24, Roy Williams
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Roy Williams, retired Head Men’s Basketball Coach at UNC. He served as the men’s head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels for 18 seasons and the Kansas Jayhawks for 15 seasons. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.
Williams started his college coaching career at North Carolina as an assistant coach for Dean Smith in 1978. Four years later, North Carolina won the national championship. After ten years as Smith’s assistant, Williams became head coach at defending national champion Kansas, in 1988, taking them to 14 consecutive NCAA tournaments, four Final Four appearances, two national championship game appearances, collecting an .805 winning percentage, and winning nine conference titles.
With a total of 903 wins, Williams took his teams to nine Final Fours in his careers at Kansas and North Carolina. Williams is the fifth NCAA Men’s Division I head coach to reach 900 wins, and reached the mark in fewer games than any other head coach with 900+ wins. He is the only coach in NCAA history to have led two different programs to at least four Final Fours each and the only basketball coach in NCAA history to have 400 or more victories at two NCAA Division I schools.
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10/2/24 – Jolene Nagel, Head Volleyball Coach, Duke
10/16/24 – Special Guest Speaker
11/6/24 – A different Special Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Brian Kalbas, the Head Coach of UNC’s Women’s Tennis Team as well as the winningest coach in ACC women’s tennis history. The 24-25 season will be Kalbas’ 21st season at UNC.
Highlighted by the program’s first NCAA National Championship in 2023 and its seventh ITA National Team Indoor Championship (2013, ’15, ’18, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23), a runner-up finish at the 2014 NCAA Team Championship, six appearances in the NCAA semifinals (2010, ’14, ’19, ’21, ’22, ’23), a trio of NCAA doubles title in 2007, 2021 and 2023, and Jamie Loeb’s NCAA singles crown in 2015, UNC has advanced to the NCAA tournament all 21 years it’s been held under Kalbas’ tutelage. Additionally, he has won seven ACC Championships, including five straight from 2016-19, ’21, ‘24 (2020 was not held due to COVID-19), and has been named ACC Coach of the Year six times. Perhaps more impressive than all those facts and figures, Kalbas has never had a scholarship player transfer from his UNC program, and perhaps most importantly, every single student-athlete that has completed four years at UNC has left Chapel Hill with a degree in hand.
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9/18/24 – Roy Williams
10/2/24 – Jolene Nagel, Head Volleyball Coach, Duke
10/16/24 – Special Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Andrew Carter, reporter for The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer. He has spent 10 years covering major college athletics, six of them covering the University of North Carolina for the newspapers. Now he’s a member of The N&O’s and Observer’s statewide enterprise and investigative reporting team, but continues to write about college athletics – mainly the Atlantic Coast Conference in general and our local schools. Andrew attended NC State and grew up in Raleigh dreaming of becoming a journalist.
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8/21/24 – Matt Chazanow, NC State Play-by-Play Announcer
9/4/24 – Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach, UNC
9/18/24 – Trust me…this will be a speaker you won’t want to miss!
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be LeVelle Moton, the Head Coach for Men’s Basketball at North Carolina Central University. Moton is the winningest coach in NCCU’s history, taking over the program at his alma mater in 2009. A 1996 graduate of NCCU with a bachelor’s degree in recreation administration, Moton became the school’s third all-time leading scorer with 1,714 points during his historic hardwood career as an Eagle from 1992-96, earning the nickname “Poetry `n Moton.”
Among NCCU’s all-time career leaders, Moton ranks first in 3-point field goals made (213 of 529), third in scoring (1,714 points), fifth in free throws made (363 of 467), eighth in assists (278), and eighth in field goals made (569 of 1,159).
As Head Coach, Moton has led NCCU to 4 NCAA tournaments and 1 NIT appearance, 4 MEAC regular season champions (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020) and 4 MEAC Tournament Championships (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019).
Moton is the CEO and Founder of the Velle Cares Foundation, whose mission is to serve and assist community-based organizations that promote health, education, and life skills for children and family in at-risk situations. He hosts notable annual events such as the ‘Back to School Community Day Event’ and the ‘Single Mother Salute’, to enrich and give back to his community. Moton presents awards of Courage, Strength, Perseverance, and a “Single Mother of the Year” award named after his mother Hattie McDougald. He is also a co-founder of “Raleigh Raised Development,” which is currently developing 18 affordable-housing homes in Raleigh.
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8/7/24 – Andrew Carter, Sports Reporter, News & Observer
8/21/24 – Special Guest Speaker
9/4/24 – Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach, UNC
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Peter Fox, the Founding Executive Producer of ESPN and writer, producer, creative director of books, videos, DVD’s, shows, speeches in sports, business, consumer and political realms. Fox will be talking about his brand-new book, The Early Days of ESPN: 300 Daydreams and Nightmares. The book offers a ragged chronicle of the TV station’s humble early days, from the time he joined in November 1978 through the first broadcast 10 months later. Fox takes an approach that lies somewhere between memoir and oral history, augmenting his own recollections with lengthy first-person passages from his colleagues.
As author, producer, developer and communication counsel his experiences in corporate, political and sports realms span more than 4 decades and highlights below:
Author: Golf Reform Is At Hand; Creative Insurance Is No Oxymoron; 50 Visions; A Lifetime of Better Golf; Managing Emotions—Sports Next Frontier
Producer: ESPN original programming; Golf Digest’s Moe Norman and Natural Golf; The God Squad; PPG Industries Trip Through Time
Developer: Harmony Games®; FUNcierge®; EQuatrics™; Golfest®
Communications Counsel: United Technologies; DuPont; PPG Industries; Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute; Lloyds of London Correspondents; Radio Advertising Bureau; Promotion Marketing Association of America; Governors John Dempsey; William O’Neill and Ella Grasso; U.S. Senators Thomas and Christopher Dodd and PGA Tour tournaments in Connecticut and Florida.
Fox is an Emmy nominee; Clio and Golden Pen winner; Natural Golf Hall of Fame member and Senior Golf Club Champion, Hillandale, Durham, NC.
He is the current Editor-in-Chief of SportsEdTV.
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7/3/24 – NO MEETING! Happy Birthday, USA!
7/17/24 – LeVelle Moton, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, NC Central
8/7/24 – Special Guest Speaker
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5-15-24, Jim Koerner, USA Baseball
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jim Koerner, Director of Player Development for USA Baseball. He is responsible for developing on-field programming for USA Baseball’s six national teams and three national team development programs.
Koerner runs the 13U/14U Athlete Development Program (ADP) and 16U/17U National Team Development Program (NTDP), a role he assumed in January 2023. The ADP and NTDP both serve as identification events for national team programming, while also providing the nation’s top athletes an opportunity to connect with USA Baseball coaches, task force and national team staff to better prepare for a future national team experience.
Koerner was the head coach at North Carolina Central University from 2011-21. As just the second head coach in the program’s modern-day history, Koerner took NCCU baseball to new heights in his 10 years at the helm, culminating with a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Southern Division Championship, and MEAC Coach of the Year recognition during the 2021 season. He coached seven MLB draft picks or free agent signees while at NCCU.
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6/5/24 – Scholar-Athlete Awards Luncheon
6/19/24 – Peter Fox, ESPN’s Founding Executive Director
7/3/24 – NO MEETING
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Marissa Young, Head Softball Coach at Duke. After being named the first head softball coach at Duke University on July 29, 2015, Marissa Young has put together a 213-97 record in her six years at the helm of the Duke softball program. In just 4 seasons, Duke claimed the ACC Championship under Young’s leadership.
Prior to being tabbed to build the Duke softball program, Young spent the prior two seasons at UNC, where her primary responsibilities included coaching the pitchers and catchers. In the spring of 2015, Young helped the Tar Heels to a 37-16 overall record and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Young’s pitchers posted a 3.30 earned run average with 234 strikeouts in 335.1 innings pitched.
As a player, Young was a three-time All-America selection as a pitcher at the University of Michigan and was named the 2002 Big Ten Pitcher of the Year and 2003 Big Ten Player of the Year. Young graduated from Michigan in 2003 as the all-time strikeout leader (927) and her 88 career wins became the second highest in program history. She also matched the then-program single-season home run record with 13 in 2003.
As of April 14, Duke softball is ranked 3rd in the nation!
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5/15/24 – Special Guest Speaker
6/5/24 – Scholar-Athlete Awards Luncheon
6/19/24 – Another Special Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Bobby Cremins, Former Head Basketball Coach at Appalachian State (100-70 in 6 seasons), Georgia Tech (354-237 in 19 seasons), and the College of Charleston (125-68 in 6 seasons). His greatest success came with the Yellow Jackets where Tech made 10 NCAA tournament appearances, including 9 in a row, as well as reaching the Final Four in 1990 before losing in the national semifinal to Nevada-Las Vegas.
Cremins was voted the ACC “Coach of the Year” three times (1983, 1985, 1996). He would guide some talented guards as well, from Mark Price to fellow New Yorkers, Kenny Anderson and Stephon Marbury, leading to Georgia Tech being called “Point Guard University.” Cremins took over the cellar-dwelling Tech program in 1981 and leading it to the ACC Championship just 4 years later. He retired as Georgia Tech’s coach after the 2000 season with more victories as an ACC Coach than anyone except Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski.
In college, Cremins played Guard under Frank McGuire at University of South Carolina, finishing in 1970, a year before the Gamecocks left the ACC.
Cremins and his wife, Carolyn, live in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
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5/1/24 – Special Guest Speaker
5/15/24 – Special Guest Speaker
6/5/24 – Scholar-Athlete Awards Luncheon