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The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Dan Brooks, Head Women’s Golf Coach at Duke. In 32 years as the coach of the Devils, he has helped guide his squads to six NCAA National Championships, 18 ACC Championships and 125 team victories, which is the most of any women’s golf coach in Division I history.

Developing consistency has been a trademark for the Duke program, just as Brooks, a six-time National Coach of the Year, has his own trademark of being an excellent teacher of the game.  Looking to win their seventh title, the Blue Devils return four starters off last year’s squad, including 2015 National Player of the Year Leona Maguire and 2016 NCAA Individual Champion Virginia Elena Carta.

Over the last 18 years, Duke has established itself as the nation’s top women’s collegiate golf team with six national titles, 99 event titles, 13 ACC titles, four NCAA individual champions and 64 individual medalist honors.

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12/7/16 – Gary Gilmore, Head Baseball Coach, Coastal Carolina University
12/21/16 – “Christmas Party” (Private)
1/4/17 – No Meeting

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Roy Williams, Head Men’s Basketball Coach at UNC. Williams is entering his 14th year as Head Coach. Williams is a member of the Naismith Basketball, College Basketball and North Carolina Sports Halls of Fame, leading Carolina to national championships in 2005 and 2009, four Final Fours, seven Elite Eights, five NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds in 11 appearances, eight Associated Press Top 10 final rankings, seven ACC regular-season titles, three ACC Tournament crowns and six 30-win seasons. ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting News and Fox Sports named Williams the Coach of the Decade for 2000-09 after he led Kansas and Carolina to 33 NCAA Tournament wins, eight more than any other coach.

Carolina’s win over Arkansas in 2015 was not only the 750th win in Roy Williams’ collegiate head coaching career, it also was his 65th victory in NCAA Tournament play, tying him with fellow Tar Heel Hall of Famer Dean Smith for the second-most all-time.
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11/16/16 – Dan Brooks, Head Women’s Golf Coach, Duke
12/7/16 – Gary Gilmore, Head Baseball Coach, Coastal Carolina University
12/21/16 – “Christmas Party” (Private)

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Bryan Kersey, Director of Basketball Officials for the ACC. For the past 30 years, Kersey has served as an NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Official, and has been a regular in both the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. Overall, he has officiated in 20 NCAA Tournaments, including six Regionals, three Regional Finals and the 2015 NCAA Final Four. He has officiated 27 years in the ACC and has worked 21 ACC Tournaments, including seven championship games, and four NIT Finals.

“I am pleased to have Bryan step into this role as he brings a wealth of on court experience, superb knowledge surrounding all aspects of officiating the college game, and excellent professional business and management experiences,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford.

“Bryan has demonstrated throughout his career a caring and respectful attitude towards college basketball and its communities,” said Paul Brazeau, ACC Senior Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball. “His long-time love for the game, and officiating in particular, remains evident. The ACC and all those affiliated with college basketball will be strengthened through Bryan’s stewardship and dedication.”

In addition to the ACC, Kersey has officiated in the Big East, Big 12, American, Atlantic 10 and Colonial Conferences. From Carrollton, Virginia, he is the president of Kersey, Sealey, Clark & Associates in Newport News, Virginia.

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11/2/16 – Roy Williams, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, UNC
11/16/16 – Dan Brooks, Head Women’s Golf Coach, Duke
12/7/16 – Bill Mallon, Olympics Historian

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Nolan Smith, Special Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke.  The former Duke All-American joined the Blue Devils’ men’s basketball staff on Feb. 22, 2016, and is in his first full season as special assistant. In this role, his duties include assisting the coaching staff in developing game strategies, breaking down game film, planning practices and contributing in staff meetings.

A consensus first-team All-American and the ACC Player of the Year in 2011, Smith helped lead Duke to three consecutive ACC championships (2009-11) and the 2010 NCAA title during his tenure as a student-athlete.

In helping lead Duke to its fourth national championship in 2010, Smith was named Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA South Regional in Houston and earned a place on the All-Final Four Team after averaging 16.0 points and 5.0 assists to help the Blue Devils cut down the nets in Indianapolis.

The Upper Marlboro, Md., native currently ranks 17th on Duke’s career scoring chart, having amassed 1,911 points from 2008-11. He played in 121 victories in a Duke uniform to rank fifth in program history and sixth in ACC history, and his 143 games played are tied for the seventh-most in Duke annals. Smith also served as a team captain for the 2010-11 season.

During his tenure as a student-athlete in the program, Duke went 65-2 (.970) at Cameron Indoor Stadium to set program records for both home wins and winning percentage in a four-year period

Following his graduation from Duke in 2011, Smith was selected by Portland with the 21st overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft.

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10/19/16 – Brian Kersey, Director of Basketball Officials, ACC
11/2/16 – Roy Williams, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, UNC
11/16/16 – Special Durham Sports Club Program

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Joanne P. McCallie, Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Duke. The ACC Coach of the Year in 2010, 2012 and 2013, McCallie enters her ninth season at the helm of the Blue Devils’ program.

In just eight years, “Coach P” has guided the program to a 225-53 overall record, a 100-22 mark in ACC action and eight NCAA Tournament selections, including a No. 1 seed in 2009 and four straight Elite Eight appearances from 2010-13. She led Duke to four consecutive ACC regular season titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and three ACC Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Her 82.0 winning percentage in ACC contests ranks first on the conference’s all-time coaching charts, while her winning percentage of 80.9 in all games is first among active coaches in the ACC.
Prior to coming to Duke, McCallie spent seven years at Michigan State University. While piloting the Spartans to a nationally elite level, McCallie, the 2005 Associated Press Coach of the Year, guided the Spartans to their first ever NCAA Final Four and national championship game appearance as well as their first ever NCAA Elite Eight and repeat Sweet Sixteen appearances, the programs’ second Big Ten regular season title and first ever Big Ten Tournament Championship in 2005.

The former Joanne Palombo played her collegiate basketball at Northwestern from 1984-87. She still ranks seventh in Wildcat history with 378 career assists. McCallie graduated from Northwestern in 1987 with a degree in political science and earned a master’s degree in business administration from Auburn in 1990.

The McCallie family includes husband John, daughter Madeline (Maddie – 21) and son John Wyatt (Jack – 15). Maddie will be a junior on the women’s basketball team at Elon in 2015-16, after transferring from the Miami of Ohio.

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10/5/16 – Lee Pace, Sports Historian
10/19/16 – Brian Kersey, Director of Basketball Officials, ACC
11/2/16 – Roy Williams, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, UNC

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Joe Breschi, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach at UNC. Breschi led the Tarheels to the 2016 NCAA National Championship with a victory over a great and spectacular University of Maryland team (Fear the Turtle).

Breschi, a 1990 Carolina alumnus and former assistant coach for the Tar Heels, became the 12th head lacrosse coach in Carolina history on June 18, 2008. Breschi came to Chapel Hill from Ohio State where he had served as the head coach for the previous 11 seasons. He hit the ground running and his first recruiting class, which enrolled in August 2010, was ranked No. 1 in the nation by Inside Lacrosse Magazine. His past four recruiting classes have been tabbed in the Top 5 nationally. Carolina has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each of his eight years as the head coach.

Breschi was one of the finest lacrosse players in the history of the ACC while playing for UNC head coach Willie Scroggs from 1987-90. He was also a member of two U.S. National Teams (1994 and 1998). After graduating from Carolina in 1990, Breschi coached at his alma mater for two seasons before going to Brown University as the head assistant coach from 1993-97.

Breschi and his wife, Julie, have five children, the late Michael Breschi, as well as four daughters, Samantha, Abigail, Lucy, and Emily.

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9/21/16 – Joanne P. McCallie, Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Duke University
10/5/16 – Lee Pace, Sports Historian
10/19/16 – Brian Kersey, Director of Basketball Officials, ACC

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Ryan McGee, Senior Writer for ESPN The Magazine. McGee is also a regular contributor to ESPN.com, SportsCenter and ESPNU. He is also the author of The Road To Omaha: Hits, Hopes and History at the College World Series and ESPN Ultimate NASCAR: 100 Defining Moments in Stock Car Racing History.

In addition to his reporting and writing, McGee also is co-host of the popular “Marty and McGee” program that airs on ESPN Radio on Saturday afternoons. McGee and co-host Marty Smith, ESPN bureau reporter, discuss NASCAR and other topics with a wide variety of guests ranging from NASCAR drivers to country music artists to stars from other sports.

He started with ESPN in 1994 working on the production staff of the show rpm2night, during which time he began contributing to the magazine. From 2001-03, he produced Totally NASCAR on FOX Sports Net and for five years served as editor in chief at NASCAR Media Group, winning two Sports Emmys and penning the script for the documentary film Dale. He has been named National Motorsports Press Association’s Writer of the Year five times. McGee is also a member of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and National Collegiate Baseball Writers (NCBWA). He has also selected as the NMPA Writer of the Year in 2010 and 2014.

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9/7/16 – Joe Breschi, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach, University of North Carolina
9/21/16 – Joanne P. McCallie, Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Duke University
10/5/16 – Lee Pace, Sports Historian

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Lewis Bowling, writer and educator. Currently, Lewis is an Assistant Professor on the Physical Education Faculty at North Carolina Central University and teaches part-time at Duke. Bowling’s passion, however, is writing. In addition to writing four books about Granville County history, he has written the following books and more:

• Alabama Football Tales: More Than a Century of Crimson Tide Glory
• Wallace Wade: Championship Years at Alabama and Duke
• Duke Basketball: A Pictorial History

In addition to the books, he writes a weekly fitness column for the Durham Herald-Sun and a history column for the Oxford Public Ledger called “Looking Back”.   He is a staff writer for Go Duke Magazine, and has published articles in Blue Devil Weekly, Bama Magazine, Reminisce Magazine, Personal Fitness Professional Magazine, Sport Supplement Journal, Alabama Encyclopedia Online, and Alabama Alumni Magazine.

Lewis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Appalachian State University and his Master of Sport Science degree from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Alabama.

Lewis is married to Beth Harward Bowling, and they reside in Durham.

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8/17/16 – Ryan McGee, Writer, ESPN The Magazine
9/7/16 – Joe Breschi, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach, University of North Carolina
9/21/16 – Joanne P. McCallie, Head Women’s Basketball Coach, Duke University

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Brad Allen, NFL Football referee. A native of Lumberton, North Carolina (and a graduate of UNC-Pembroke), Allen began officiating football games at the high school, and later, ACC, levels. When he made his NFL officiating debut in 2014, he was originally going to be an umpire, but when long-time referee Mike Carey announced his retirement on June 24, 2014, Allen was given the referee position instead; this was the first time since 1962 that an NFL official in his first year of officiating was given that honor (Tommy Bell was the last NFL official to do so).

Allen’s 2015 NFL officiating crew consisted of umpire Fred Bryan, head linesman Jim Mello, line judge Tom Symonette, field judge Doug Rosenbaum, side judge Tom Hill, and back judge Shawn Hochuli, son of senior NFL referee Ed Hochuli.

Outside of officiating NFL games, Allen is the President and Executive Director of the North Carolina Senior Games.

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8/3/16 – Joe Breschi, Head Men’s Lacrosse Coach, UNC
8/17/16 – Special Guest Speaker
9/7/16 – Special Guest Speaker

The guest speaker for our upcoming meeting will be Jared Sandberg, Manager of the Durham Bulls. Sandberg is in his second season with the Bulls, after spending the previous seven seasons as a coach and manager at four different levels of the Rays’ organization. He is just the fourth manager in the triple-A history of the Bulls.

The 37-year-old Sandberg managed the Advanced-A Charlotte Stone Crabs prior to coming to the Bulls. He managed Single-A Bowling Green the year before after spending three seasons at short-season Class A Hudson Valley. He made his managerial debut with the rookie-level Princeton Rays in 2009 after one year as a coach at Hudson Valley in 2008.

Prior to his time on the bench, Sandberg spent parts of three seasons from 2001-03 primarily as a third baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays hitting .221 with 25 home runs in 196 games. He played parts of five seasons with the Bulls (2000-04).

Sandberg, the nephew of Hall of Famer and current Philadelphia Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg, was selected by Tampa Bay in the 16th round of the 1996 draft. He is still the franchise’s all-time minor-league leader in home runs (113), RBI (473 and runs (417).

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7/20/16 – Brad Allen, NFL Referee
8/3/16 – Special Guest Speaker
8/17/16 – Special Guest Speaker