Ayanna Tweedy, Associate Director of Athletics & Samantha Current, Compliance and Business Operations Coordinator, joined the show this week. Lots of great nuggets from this conversation! While Stephanie and I have spent a lot of time on our needs based assessment, these two have spent more time on their logic model!

Links:

Ayanna: Twitter | Wabash Bio

Samantha: Twitter | Wabash Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

Lamarr Pottinger, Associate Director of Leadership Development at the NCAA, joins this week's show. We talk about his time as a student-athlete, his transition to student-athlete development, and his time as a participant and facilitator in NCAA Leadership Development programs. 

Links:

Lamarr: Twitter | NCAA Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week Jackie Kelly, Director for Student-Athlete Wellness, Outreach and Inclusion, & Marc Dauphin, Big Ten Intern, of Rutgers join the podcast. We talk about the Rutgers Leadership program, leadership programs for credit, their experiences in NCAA LAW and their new building!

Links:

Rutgers Leadership Development: Twitter | Instagram

Jackie:  Rutgers Bio

Marc: Rutgers Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week Chad Levesque joins the podcast. Chad is an assistant coach for the AIC baseball team as well as working in the Student-Athlete Success department at AIC. He is also pursuing a masters degree at Western New England University.

Links:

Chad: AIC Bio | Twitter

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

After a short break, we are back with an interview with Cori Pinkett from Baylor University. Lots of fantastic information in the episode. This is an episode that we had to go back and listen to multiple times!

Links:

Cori: BU Bio | Twitter

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

This week we are joined by Kayla Lee and Ryan Griffin of Bethune-Cookman. We find out who dragged who into the program, how their program is coming along and their thoughts of the NCAA LAW modules so far.

Links:

Kayla:  BCU Bio

Ryan: BCU Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

After not talking about our formation group for 2 months, we give you an update as to what has been happening! 

Links:

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

We are joined by Shelby McKay, Assistant Director of Athletics, Student-Athlete Development, and Derrick Mitchell, Coordinator, Student-Athlete Development and Wellbeing from Washington State join us this week!

In the episode, we the Cougar Pursuit, the NCAA LAW program (surprise, surprise) and much more!

Links:

Shelby:  Twitter | WSU Bio

Derrick: Twitter | WSU Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

George Midgett, Director of Student-Athlete Development, Leadership and Outreach, and Ben Wilson, Director of Student-Athlete Development, of Kansas University join the show.

We talked about their student-athlete development programs that are already in place, the NCAA Law program, and their formation group. George also tells us what he learned from his MySpace days!

Links:

Ben: KU Bio

George: Twitter | KU Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio

Jenn Cunningham, Assistant Athletic Director/External Relations, SAAC Advisor and Nick Sailor, Director of Training and Education For Diversity, Equity And Inclusion of Providence College joins us for our longest episode yet!

We talk about their backgrounds, how they are building more than one leadership program, their coaches listening tour and so much more! These two gave us so many fantastic ideas that we are excited to put into practice!

Links:

Jenn: Twitter | PC Bio

Nick: Twitter | PC Bio

Stephanie: Twitter | AIC Bio

Thomas: Twitter | AIC Bio