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The Head Track & Field and Cross Country Coach at the University of Dallas, which is a Catholic institution. Prior to his current position he had spent a year-and-a-half working as the Program and Events Manager with Chicago Area Runners Association. He has a wealth of coaching experience that includes collegiate, high school, youth club, and adult levels for cross country and track and field. Overall, he has coached 25 USTFCCCA All-Americans, nine NJCAA All-Americans, and two Northern Athletics Conference All-Conference athletes. A Military Veteran with high honors, as an athlete he competed for the All-Navy track and field team. Plus, while he was not on duty, he competed as a sprinter/mid-distance athlete, at various NCAA college meets and open meets. He has competed in over 100 road races including nine marathons and one ultramarathon.

He played for Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos after having been chosen by them in the ninth round of the 1997 MLB Amateur Draft out of Jacksonville University.  At that school he hit better than .330 each season with the Dolphins, including a school record .450 batting average in 1997, when he earned multiple honors. As a student-athlete he had previously played at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Alabama, where he was a two-time all-conference selection. After having been an administrator and coach for the Pensacola Pelicans/Blue Wahoos Baseball Club for nine years, he currently runs Coach T's Hit Lab, offering professional batting lessons and baseball clinics, as well as youth, high school, college and pro evaluations and analysis.

He is a Senior Offensive Assistant with the NFL's Houston Texans. He has 15 years of NFL experience, including serving as Offensive Coordinator with the Miami Dolphins, Cincinnati Bengals, and Chicago Bears.  He was also the Quarterbacks Coach for Cincinnati, a role that he'd held with Philadelphia, Washington, and Seattle as well.  He had gotten his start in the NFL in 2003 as an offensive quality control coach with Atlanta and later became an offensive assistant with the Falcons. Along the way he had a three-year stretch serving as Offensive Coordinator and Quarterbacks Coach at the University of Virginia, was offensive coordinator at the University of Buffalo, and spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at Cornell University, for whom he had been a three-year starting quarterback, graduating with 26 passing and offensive program records.

(PARENTS MIGHT SCREEN THIS EPISODE BEFORE LISTENING WITH MINORS.)  With two very powerful stories that she shares here (and a borderline third at the end), she is in her second season as an assistant coach with the Ave Maria University cross country and track programs. Previously she'd been an assistant coach for the cross country and track programs at the University of Arkansas Little Rock for two seasons. She also has coaching experience at the high school level, having coached at two high schools in the Portland, Oregon area. While there, she also spent five years as a running coach at Nike World Headquarters. Back in her college days she was a decorated student-athlete, and has remained an active runner, currently holding the world records for fastest 10k race and fastest half marathon finished while pushing a stroller.

A Washington, D.C.-based attorney and former general counsel of the General Services Administration. He served as a lay baseball chaplain for eight years and is the president and founder of Catholic Athletes for Christ. He has served in sports-related ministry for close to 30 years including ministries associated with Major League Baseball, the NFL, professional boxing, and youth sports programs. He was a participant in Rome at the Vatican’s first-ever sports conference in 2005 and has been working with the Vatican’s sports office to promote the Church’s mission in the United States.

He is entering his eighth year as Assistant Baseball Coach at DeMatha Catholic High School near Washington, DC, having been the freshman head coach for two of his years there. He has also worked as Sports Information Director at Catholic University, which is also near our nation's capital. His career in sports has also included work as a journalist, covering NBA games in DC. More recently, he coached T-Ball for eight years, coached 10-and-under basketball, and along the way picked up a Coach of the Year honor. This all followed his having been a student-athlete back in his high school days. Listen for the physical challenge he overcame to play four different sports!

He is a former World Bodybuilding Champion, including having won Mr. Universe in 1992.  All told he competed in AAU Mr. East Coast, AAU Mr. USA, AAU Mr. America, and NABBA Mr. Universe -- some of those more than once and earning three first place finishes and two second place. He also competed in the 1991 Tokyo Sumo Wrestling Premier Event, winning the bronze medal.  In addition, he also became a professional skateboarder; even holding the world record for jumping onto a moving skateboard -- four feet and ten inches. And he was even a semi-professional boxer for three years.  As a student-athlete he had broken records in high school for the high jump and track events. STAY TO THE END FOR AN EMOTIONAL STORY ABOUT HIS BROTHER.

He got into martial arts in high school and competed in Tae Kwon Do in college, along with a little Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. That got him heavily into fitness and especially kettlebells, which led to him starting various fitness platforms and writing books related to minimalist methods of strength and conditioning. On the faith side, he has an amazing reversion story and next month will mark the release of his fifth book, this one to be titled, "The Best Argument For God."  He also has his own podcast that teaches listeners why it's better to be better at many things, not best at just one, covering everything from fitness and mental health to business and writing to philosophy and theology.

He has more than 30 years of coaching experience and currently serves as a senior offensive analyst for LSU football. His coaching career includes winning a Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints in 2009 and capturing the 1997 national championship with Michigan, having been a part of five Big Ten Championships with the Wolverines. Prior to coming onboard with LSU, he spent three years at Bowling Green where he served as offensive coordinator along with coaching the running backs and offensive line. That was his second stint with their program, having previously been there from 1986-1995 when he served in a variety of roles and helped them to back-to-back MAC Championships and bowl game victories in 1991 and 1992. He also coached at Western Michigan, Purdue, Holy Cross, and Boston College after having begun his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arizona.

He was a varsity wrestler at Jesuit High School in New Orleans during which time they won three state championships.  (He was second in the state one of those years.)  He went on to play intramural sports at Notre Dame, played flag football in seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, and was a referee of the annual flag football game when he worked there as a Vatican official.  He is an avid hunter and fisherman, and a PADI Master SCUBA diver, all while serving as the pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.  Along the way he had received his law degree from Georgetown University, went on to practice law for six years, eventually leaving to begin studies for the diocesan priesthood at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

He is the Associate Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator for Sam Houston State University football. Prior to his current role he had spent four seasons at Coastal Carolina serving as defensive coordinator. Before that he spent two seasons at Bucknell as defensive coordinator after having spent the previous six years at Cornell where he served two stints at defensive coordinator, spanning four seasons. He got his start at the Division I level as a graduate assistant at Nebraska, which led to opportunities with New Mexico State, where he spent two stints, mixed in with one year at Villanova and two at Buffalo.

He is a member of the founding family of the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and is also the owner of the Kansas City Mavericks, a franchise member of the ECHL. In addition, he is the founder of the Loretto Foundation, LLC, a private charitable organization. He also serves as interim president for St. Michael the Archangel High School in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and on the board of directors of Hunt Midwest and the Bright Futures Fund. He has also served on the board of Dynamic Catholic for many years.

She is a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed marriage and family therapist who has seemingly done it all, sports-wise.  She currently participates in boxing, having played sports her entire life, including basketball, softball, running, and bodybuilding. Her athletic background also includes collegiate basketball, Division I offers, options to play internationally, and playing with a WNBA farm team. She has coached youth basketball as well as a senior women's Olympic basketball team and has a sports ministry currently that provides sports-oriented training and integrates faith, with an emphasis on cultivating virtues.

He is the Director of Development for Catholic Sports (not affiliated with this podcast), a national young adult sports ministry that is building community for young Catholics, while growing the Church through marriage and conversions.  A cradle Catholic, he was the final cut from his high school basketball team, and fell into a party lifestyle.  After falling away from the faith in college, he experienced a powerful conversion his junior year.  The community of faith he encountered through Catholic Sports in Denver played a pivotal role in his spiritual journey. Today from the national office in Colorado he is helping oversee five sports being played in each of four different states, helping unite and provide fellowship for young adults ages 18-39.

He serves as the radio voice of Michigan State softball and #2 for volleyball, plus fill-in for the University of Toledo, as well as various championships for the Michigan High School Athletic Association.  His past roles have included being the lead voice of the United Shore Professional Baseball League, DePaul University softball, and various other free-lance opportunities.  During college he interned in the radio booth with Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, after which he landed the job as the TV broadcaster for Detroit Mercy.  He is also entering his tenth year as the voice for Salem Media Group Detroit's Catholic Football League on their news talk station, the Patriot.  He had even been "recruited" and given an athletic scholarship to start a broadcasting program at Marygrove College.

He holds the NAIA baseball career batting average record with a .480 career average while in college.  He had played basketball and baseball for four years in high school before going on to play baseball at both Creighton University and St. Mary of the Plains College. After graduation, he was a graduate assistant at Ft. Hays State University and then a head assistant baseball coach at St. Mary of the Plains College.  In addition to playing and coaching collegiate baseball he officiated high school football, basketball, and baseball, AND college (JUCO & NAIA) baseball and basketball.  He also served on the executive committee for his local youth baseball league for ten years and started a non-profit organization to support the travel high school basketball team.  His faith initiatives are just as extensive, if not more so, than all he has done with sports, including having been president of Ave Maria University, plus having a new book out that draws heavily from incorporating his Catholic faith into the business world and having gone through a major life tragedy.

He is the Assistant Head Coach of the football team at Detroit Catholic Central High School, where he has been on the staff since 2008.  Along the way he coached in two State Championship games and, prior to his promotion this year to his current role, had been promoted to Defensive Coordinator in 2018. He was an Undergraduate Assistant Coach at The University of Michigan from 2003-2005, and as a student-athlete playing for Detroit Catholic Central, he was a member of back-to-back state championship teams. He holds a B.S. in Physical Education from The University of Michigan and his father is in multiple Halls of Fame as a football coach.

He has trained in bodybuilding, Brazilian jiu jitsu, boxing, Jeet Kune Do, powerlifting, the Scottish Highland Games, and is currently going for hybrid athlete. He is the author of a book called, "Ten Commandments of Lifting Weights." On the faith side, he has a Master’s in Theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and earlier this year was named the Director of Extension Strategy at Benedictine College, which has been named one of the top Catholic colleges in the nation by First Things magazine and the Newman Guide. Previously he had served as the Director of the Word on Fire Institute.

He was a three-sport athlete in high school before going on to Siena Heights University, where he was on the baseball roster for two years.  He was a CYO Athletic Director and coached basketball at two Catholic schools.  At a different Catholic high school, he was the Athletic Director, before moving on to Associate Director of the Detroit Catholic High School League. He has also served as Chairperson (Lead Driver) of No Sports on Sunday in the Archdiocese of Detroit and is a Certified Play Like a Champion Sports Ministry Coach and Parent presenter.  He's the Athletics and Student Services Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Detroit in the Department of Catholic Schools.

He spent almost four years as the Public Relations Manager for Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers. That followed stints as the University of Houston's Assistant Sports Information Director, the University of South Alabama's Assistant Sports Information Director, and the University of Georgia's Sports Information Assistant. He currently serves as an Official Scorer with Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, a role he also held with the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. He has umpired Little League Baseball, has coached youth soccer and baseball, and, back in his days as a student-athlete, played baseball and wrestled. On the faith side, he is the Director of Development for Catholic Answers, and serves as the backup host for their live radio show.