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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.

 

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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