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.
Mark Your Calendar
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.
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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.
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Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Bob Bender, former Professional and College Basketball Coach. Robert Michael Bender (born April 28, 1957) is an American professional basketball coach, who last served an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. Born in Quantico, Virginia, he attended Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Illinois, where he was an All-American in basketball. Bender has the distinction of being the only individual to play on two teams in two NCAA Championship games. He was a freshman on Bob Knight’s undefeated 1976 Indiana team and played point guard at Duke from 1977 to 1980, including an appearance in the title game against Kentucky. Bender was drafted by the San Diego Clippers in the sixth round before his senior year.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Durham Sports Club Member Kevin Kelly. Kevin will be speaking to us about the North Carolina Senior Games, of which he has participated in since 2009. Since then, he has established a Senior Games Basketball team that has qualified for SIX National Senior Games competitions, winning the gold medal for his team’s division in their age group at the 2022 National Senior Games in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Steve Vacendak, former Duke and ABA Basketball player, and 2017 inductee into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. After graduating from Duke University, he was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors in the fourth round of the 1966 NBA draft, but he never played for them. Instead, he played professional basketball for the American Basketball Association and later joined the sales staff at Converse Rubber Company.
The Speaker for our next meeting will be Tyler Parsons, General Manager of the Durham Bulls. Parsons joined the Bulls in December 2022 after serving as the General Manager of the Lansing Lugnuts for the previous five seasons. During his tenure in Lansing, he helped usher in a new affiliation with the Oakland Athletics in 2021, as well as league-promotion to the High-A Central League. He was named the High-A Central League’s Executive of the Year in 2021. Prior to Lansing, he was the General Manager of the Johnson City Cardinals and Martinsville Mustangs. He began his career in baseball with the Forest City Owls as the Director of Fun, and has previous sports experience with Central Michigan Athletics, Mid-Michigan Community College, Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart Academy and Rivals.com. Tyler is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees.