Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jolene Nagel, Head Volleyball Coach at Duke University. Jolene Nagel became Duke University’s fifth head volleyball coach in 1999, joining the Blue Devil staff after successful stints at Cornell and Georgetown.
Under her guidance, 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 wins in 14 of Nagel’s 19 campaigns and consistently finished among the top three in the conference. Nagel earned her 600th career victory September 9, 2017 as the Blue Devils downed TCU in straight sets. With the win, Nagel became the 22nd active NCAA D- I head coach to reach 600 career victories.
The winningest Duke volleyball coach on record, she also ranks among the league coaching leaders in overall winning percentage, ACC winning percentage, ACC wins and NCAA Tournament appearances.
Nagel began her coaching career in 1983 as a graduate assistant at Kent State University following graduation from Edinboro University. In 1985 she accepted a position as first assistant coach at the University of North Carolina and spent three seasons in Chapel Hill before moving to on to Cornell in 1988. (thanks, GoDuke.com)
Mark Your Calendar
All Meetings at Croasdaile Country Club
10/4/23 – George Bell, former Harlem Globetrotter and USA’s Tallest Man
10/18/23 – Special Guest Speaker
11/1/23 – Art Chase, Senior Associate Athletic Director, Duke
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jon Scheyer, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke University. Scheyer was named the 20th head coach in Duke University’s storied basketball history on June 4, 2021. He enters his second season as head coach in 2023-24, with vast experience on the Duke bench, having served on Mike Krzyzewski’s staff since the 2013-14 season. His previous roles with the Blue Devils include special assistant, assistant coach, and the previous three years as associate head coach.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Andrew Carter, Reporter for the News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer. Carter spent 10 years covering major college athletics, six of them covering the University of North Carolina for The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer. Now he’s a member of The N&O’s and Observer’s statewide enterprise and investigative reporting team. He attended N.C.State and grew up in Raleigh dreaming of becoming a journalist.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach at UNC. Kalbas has been named the National Coach of the Year three times, including this year, when the Team won its first NCAA National Championship and seventh ITA National Team Indoor Championship. Over the course of his 21 seasons at UNC, he has won 6 ACC Championships, been named ACC Coach of the Year 5 times, coached 3 NCAA Doubles National Champions and one NCAA Singles National Championship.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Valerie Gillispie, University Archivist at Duke University. Gillispie will be speaking about the earlier history of Duke Football.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Dave Odom, Former Head Basketball Coach at Wake Forest, University of South Carolina and others. In 1965, Odom accepted a job as the coach of Goldsboro High School while enrolled at East Carolina University in pursuit of a master’s degree in physical education. Odom coached Goldsboro High School for four seasons between 1965 and 1969, he was also a drivers ed instructor during this time. After graduating from East Carolina in 1969, Odom took a job at Durham High School. He coached at Durham for seven years (1969–1976) where he was voted his league’s coach of the year five times.
The Speaker for our next meeting will be David Shumate, the Director of Broadcasting for the Blue Devil IMG Sports Network. In this role, he serves as the play-by-play voice for Duke football and men’s basketball games.