Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Club Member John LeBar, who will be talking about recent developments with college football and basketball. LeBar has been a teacher/coach at 3 universities, teaching and coaching at Rice University for 2 years. the University of Missouri in Kansas City for 4 years, and then at Duke University for 47 years as a tenured faculty. When he stopped coaching at Duke, he became the Director of Undergraduate Studies for his department and a full-time teacher.
LeBar has played, taught and/or coached many sports, including Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Swimming, Squash, Racquetball, Handball, Fencing and Tennis.
LeBar has published 4 books: #1- Learning Tennis Together, # 2- dissertation: An ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF FACTORS IN THE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS OF SELECTED DUKE UNVERSITY GRADUATES OF 1959-1960-1961, #3-Marching Toward Madness, and #4- COLLEGE SPORTS ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER, which was published last year.
John was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. He graduated from Wyandotte High School, then received a BS degree from Kansas State college in Pittsburg, Kansas. He received a MS degree from Kansas State Teachers in Emporia, Kansas, and received his Ed.D from Duke University.
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All Meetings at Croasdaile Country Club
7/19/23 – Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach, UNC
8/2/23 – Andrew Carter, Reporter, News & Observer
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.
Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Chris Pollard, Head Baseball Coach at Duke. While at Duke, Pollard has coached more than 33 Major League Baseball Draft picks, 16 All-ACC selections, four Freshmen All-Americans and three All-Americans. In addition, he has led the program to two Super Regionals (2018, 2019) and an ACC Baseball Tournament Championship title (2021), each the first in program history. Duke reached three consecutive postseasons (2018, 2019, 2021) for the first time in program history and his first postseason appearance in 2016 broke a 55- year drought. In 2021, Pollard became the first Duke coach to reach 100 career ACC wins, becoming one of six active head coaches to achieve that mark at the time.
Our guest speaker for next meeting will be Professional and UNC Basketball player, Tyler Zeller. As a freshman at UNC he played on the 2009 national championship team, and as a senior was an All-American and the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year. Following college, Zeller was a first-round draft pick of the Dallas Mavericks then traded that same night to the Cleveland Cavaliers. He played 2 seasons with Cleveland, 3 seasons with the Boston Celtics, and had stints with the Milwaukee Bucks, the Atlanta Hawks, the Memphis Grizzlies and the San Antonio Spurs. He was named to the NBA’s All- Rookie team following his first season in Cleveland.
