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10/21/26 – Steve Wiseman, News & Observer Sports Editor

Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Steve Wiseman, Sports Editor for The Herald Sun and The News & Observer. He is an award-winning sports journalist and editor whose career has spanned more than three decades, including extensive coverage of college athletics, professional sports, and some of the nation’s most prestigious sporting events. He currently serves as McClatchy’s North Carolina Sports Editor, overseeing sports coverage for The News & Observer in Raleigh, The Herald-Sun in Durham, and The Charlotte Observer.

Wiseman is particularly well known throughout North Carolina for his coverage of Duke University athletics, especially the Blue Devils’ nationally prominent men’s basketball program. Since arriving in Durham in 2010, he has chronicled some of the most significant moments in Duke sports history, including the final years of legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski’s career, his retirement in 2022, and the transition to current head coach Jon Scheyer.

In May 2025, Wiseman was promoted to sports editor after serving as Duke athletics beat writer and assistant sports editor. His appointment recognized both his extensive reporting experience and his leadership in an increasingly challenging and rapidly evolving sports media environment. In his editorial role, he helps guide coverage of the Triangle’s major college athletic programs and the broader North Carolina sports landscape.

Originally from Illinois, Wiseman graduated from Illinois State University in 1989. His journalism career has taken him through several newspapers across the Southeast, including the Hickory Daily Record, Charlotte Observer, Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi, Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and The State in Columbia, South Carolina.

His reporting assignments have been remarkably diverse, ranging from the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints to University of South Carolina athletics, high school sports, professional hockey, minor league baseball, and even the South Carolina General Assembly.

Throughout his career, Wiseman has covered seven NCAA Final Fours, three Super Bowls, nine college football bowl games, and three College World Series. His reporting has earned numerous professional honors, including repeated national recognition from the Associated Press Sports Editors. He received top-10 national honors for beat writing in 2019, 2021, and 2022, along with recognition for breaking news, explanatory reporting, and event coverage. His work covering Duke’s 2025 Final Four appearance also earned national recognition.

Wiseman has also expanded his contributions to sports journalism through broadcasting, teaching, and publishing. He has participated in the “Bleav in Duke” podcast, offering insight into Blue Devils athletics alongside former Duke basketball standout Shelden Williams.

He is also the author of Duke Basketball: An Illustrated Timeline, a book exploring more than a century of Duke men’s basketball history, from the program’s beginnings in 1906 through the Krzyzewski dynasty and into the Scheyer era. Wiseman has additionally served as an adjunct professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

Away from the newsroom, Wiseman and his wife, Kelly, have a daughter, Bailey, who is an attorney. Although originally from Illinois, he considers North Carolina home and appreciates the state’s passionate sports culture.

With his extensive experience, historical perspective, and firsthand knowledge of Duke athletics, Steve Wiseman has established himself as one of the region’s most respected sports journalists, bringing readers informed coverage of the teams, personalities, and stories that define North Carolina sports.

Mark Your Calendar
11/4/26 – A Special Guest Speaker
11/18/26 – Lewis Bowling, Author & Historian
12/2/26 – A different Special Guest Speaker

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10/6/26 – Jones Angell (TUESDAY, October 6th)

Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Jones Angell, the longtime radio play-by-play voice of University of North Carolina football and men’s basketball, a position he has held since 2011. As the lead announcer for the Tar Heel Sports Network, Angell has become one of the most recognizable voices in college athletics in North Carolina, calling many of the biggest moments in UNC sports for listeners across the state and beyond.  He will be speaking to us about UNC basketball.

A North Carolina native who grew up primarily in Jacksonville, Angell was a Tar Heel fan long before becoming the program’s radio voice. As a youngster, he listened to legendary broadcaster Woody Durham call Carolina football and basketball games, an experience that helped spark his interest in sports broadcasting.

Angell attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying journalism and mass communication. Between his sophomore and junior years, he began an internship with the Tar Heel Sports Network, where he learned the broadcasting business from the ground up. While still a student, he began calling high school football and baseball games and also gained experience covering UNC women’s soccer and women’s basketball.

After graduating from UNC in 2001, Angell continued working with the Tar Heel Sports Network in a variety of roles. Baseball became an important part of his early broadcasting career. He spent nearly a decade calling Carolina baseball, including five trips to the College World Series. He also worked as a host and analyst on football and men’s basketball broadcasts, giving him the opportunity to work closely with Durham and learn from the man whose broadcasts he had listened to growing up.

When Durham retired in 2011 after 40 seasons as the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” UNC conducted a national search for his successor. Angell was selected to take over play-by-play duties for both football and men’s basketball. At the time, he had already been part of the Carolina broadcast team for nearly 70 football games and more than 200 men’s basketball games, including UNC’s 2009 national championship season.
Since moving into the lead chair, Angell has called some of the most memorable moments in modern Carolina athletics. His tenure has included ACC championships, NCAA Tournament runs, rivalry games against Duke and NC State, bowl games and the Tar Heels’ 2017 NCAA men’s basketball national championship.

Angell’s work extends beyond game broadcasts. He has produced and hosted features for UNC athletics, contributed to coaches’ television programs and written about Tar Heel sports. He also serves as co-host with Adam Lucas of Carolina Insider, a podcast devoted to UNC athletics that combines game analysis, interviews, behind-the-scenes stories and discussion of the Carolina sports program.

More than a decade after succeeding Woody Durham, Angell has established his own identity behind the microphone while maintaining the tradition associated with one of college athletics’ most prominent broadcasting positions. His preparation, familiarity with Carolina athletics and ability to describe a game clearly and enthusiastically have made him a familiar connection between UNC teams and generations of Tar Heel fans.

Mark Your Calendar
10/21/26 – Steve Wiseman, Sports Editor, Raleigh News & Observer
11/4/26 – A Special Guest Speaker
11/18/26 – A different Special Guest Speaker

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10-2-24, Jolene Nagel, Head Volleyball Coach, Duke

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.




MARK YOUR CALENDAR
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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5-3-23, Trei Oliver, Head Football Coach, NCCU

Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Trei Oliver, Head Football Coach at North Carolina Central University.  Oliver was named the 2022 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference “Football Coach of the Year”.  In his third season as head football coach at his alma mater, he led the Eagles to their first conference championship in six years and an overall record of 10-2, including a victory over Jackson State in the Cricket Celebration Bowl – the National Championship for Historically Black Universities and Colleges.  The team was just the sixth team in school history to win nine games in the regular season, and the third to win 10 or more in total.

Oliver was named as the 24th Head Football Coach in December, 2018. In the prior 15 seasons (2004-18) as a coach at four different universities, Oliver was a part of only one season with fewer than seven wins. During that time, his teams had 124 victories for an average of more than eight wins per year and a winning percentage of .725.

Oliver’s first coaching stint at NCCU was as a defensive backs and wide receivers coach, recruiting coordinator and special teams coordinator from 2003-06. The Eagles captured back-to-back CIAA championships with consecutive trips to the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2005 and 2006, and were crowned as the black college football national champions following an 11-1 season in 2006.

He and his wife Yvette, also an NCCU graduate, are the proud parents of a son, Reggie.

 

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5/17/23 – Valerie Gillespie, Archivist, Duke University
6/7/23 – Scholar-Athlete Awards LUNCHEON
6/21/23 – Special Guest Speaker

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4-19-23, Dave Odom, Former College Basketball Coach, Wake Forest & more

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.

Odom began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Wake Forest University in 1976 under head coach Carl Tacy. After three years at Wake Forest (1976–1979), Odom became the head coach at East Carolina University, where his squad compiled a 16-11 record, the university’s best since 1965. Odom stayed with the program until 1982, when he was offered a chance to return to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) as an assistant at the University of Virginia.  Upon his arrival in Winston-Salem, Odom inherited a team that had suffered four straight losing seasons under head coach Bob Staak. In his 12 seasons (1989–2001) as head coach, Odom compiled a record of 240-132, making him the second-highest winning coach in Wake Forest history, as well as the second highest winning percentage in school history. During this time, Wake Forest earned 7 straight NCAA Tournament appearances and one NIT championship.  Odom was named ACC coach of the year in 1991, 1994 and 1995.

Odom left Wake Forest to accept the job as head coach of the University of South Carolina in 2001, replacing former coach Eddie Fogler. During his tenure at South Carolina, his team earned one NCAA tournament bid, and made three appearances in the NIT, winning the championship in 2005 and 2006. He was named SEC Coach of the Year in 2004. On January 2, 2008, Odom coached his 400th collegiate victory as a head coach. Later that month, on January 18, he announced that he would retire at the end of the 2007-2008 basketball season, his seventh at South Carolina. He coached his final game for USC on March 14, 2008, in the SEC tournament.

 

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5/3/23 – Another Special Guest Speaker to be announced
5/17/23 – Yet Another Special Guest Speaker to be announced
6/723 – SPECIAL EVENT – Stay Tuned!

 

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8/1/18 – Alex Keddie, Director of Compliance, UNC

The guest speaker for this meeting will be Alex Keddie, who joined the UNC Athletics staff in July of 2018 as Director of Compliance. Her primary responsibilities include oversight of rules education and interpretation for UNC Athletics. Additionally, she will serve as the point of contact for the men’s soccer agent program.

Keddie came to Carolina from Seton Hall University, where she was most recently Associate Athletics Director for Compliance. At Seton Hall, she was responsible for overseeing the departments compliance efforts, including creating policies/procedures and providing rules education for all staff members and student-athletes.

Prior to her time at Seton Hall, Keddie served in several compliance capacities at East Carolina University.

Keddie is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Saint Peter’s University in New Jersey, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Marketing Management and was a women’s soccer student-athlete. She also holds a Master of Science in Sport Management and a Master of Business Administration from East Carolina.

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
8/15/18 – Jay Smith, UNC Historian
9/5/18 – Tubby Smith, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, High Point University
9/19/18 – Dwane Ballen, Former Sports Anchor and Reporter

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7/18/18 – Granville Eastman, Head Football Coach, NCCU

Our Guest Speaker for this week’s meeting will be Granville, Eastman, interim Head Football Coach at North Carolina Central University. With 20 years of collegiate coaching experience to his credit, Granville Eastman joined the North Carolina Central University football coaching staff in January 2014. He served as assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and safeties coach until his promotion to interim head coach on Dec. 8, 2017.

Prior to joining NCCU, Eastman spent nine seasons (2005-13) as the defensive coordinator at Austin Peay State University in Clarkesville, Tennessee. During his 11 total seasons at APSU, he coached defensive backs and linebackers, and also served as special teams coordinator (2003-04) and interim head coach (winter 2013).

Eastman coached four seasons (1999-2002) at Tiffin University in Ohio, including the last three seasons as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator, while working with defensive backs and defensive line during his tenure.

A native of Toronto, Canada, Eastman secured his first coaching position at York University in his hometown, where he spent two seasons (1994-95) working with defensive backs.

He has interned with five NFL teams since 2002, lending his services to the Detroit Lions (2002), Arizona Cardinals (2004), Tennessee Titans (2006), Indianapolis Colts (2011) and Minnesota Vikings (2012).

Eastman also volunteers as a coach and mentor with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
8/1/18 – Alex Keddie, Director of Compliance, UNC
8/15/18 – Jay Smith, UNC Historian
9/5/18 – Tubby Smith, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, High Point University