Nobody's Safe with Brady Laber

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  • Thomas More Football preview
    This is a special episode of Nobody’s Safe with Brady Laber as we dedicate the show to a season preview of the 2021 Thomas More Saints football team. We talk with head coach Trevor Stellman about a number of subjects including how he and his team has filled the time during the fall while they would normally be playing its schedule. Coach Stellman acknowledges that everything is different now with playing a schedule that begins in February. This includes the decision making process of actually deciding to shift the schedule to spring with the admission that it’s not really spring during the month of February. We looked back to the last season that Thomas More played football back in the fall of 2019. Stellman acknowledges that going 4-7 in the team’s first year of playing in the Mid-South Conference was an admirable feat. However, that’s not the expectations at Thomas More and his team was just a handful of plays away from flipping that to a winning a record. We go through the two-deep depth chart for Week 1 as a way to break down his team and get to know some of the newcomers including new starting quarterback Jay Volpenhein. This season is a 7-game, all-league schedule within the Bluegrass Division of the Mid-South Conference. Coach Stellman talks about how difficult that will be but also the opportunity that this schedule presents. Also, a new element to the spring schedule is that the games are scheduled for Friday nights not to interfere with other fall sports moving to the spring. We close out with Coach Stellman talking about the fan base and hoping that they have a chance to be there and watch his team in person if and when it becomes safe. Next, we bring in the "Voice of the Saints” Nate Metz as we break down the Saints opening day victory over Cumberland University. Thomas More won over the Phoenix 19-14 in Lebanon, Tennessee to start the year 1-0. The Saints led throughout but fell behind in the fourth quarter. Volpenhein scrambled out of the pocket 34 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. A late defensive stop secured the victory when linebacker Del Thomas batted down a last second desperation pass into the end zone. You can follow Coach Stellman on Twitter @CoachStellmanTM and the Thomas More Football program @TMU_Football plus to get for more information on everything in the Thomas More athletic department go to the website thomasmoresaints.com. You can also follow Nate Metz on both Twitter @NateMetz and Instagram @NateMetz. He has the call of just about every Thomas More Saints home sporting event broadcast for the Saints Sports Network. You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    55 min
  • John Popovich
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is John Popovich. Popo worked in the sports department at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati for 40-years from 1979-2019. Popo got his start working at a high school radio station in his hometown of Struthers, Ohio. He admits that his love of sports was not going to translate into a playing career but this opportunity opened his eyes to the fact that he could still be a part of sports without playing the game. After graduating from high school, he attended Ohio University and earned a degree in telecommunications. He worked as a news reporter covering events in town such as city counsel meetings and interviewing presidential candidates for the upcoming election in 1972. At times the athletics department at OU had a number of good sports teams to follow. Bob Wren coached the baseball team to the 1970 College World Series with Hall of Fame Mike Schmidt playing shortstop for the Bobcats. Also, the basketball arena, The Convocation Center, opened during his time in Athens and the Bobcats opened it by beating Purdue who was ranked third in the country at the time. OU made it to the NCAA tournament before being beaten by Notre Dame who was lead by the great Austin Carr. After gradation Popo packed up and moved to Iowa for his first job at WDBQ radio in Dubuque. After about one year he moved across the state to the Quad Cities market in Davenport, Iowa. There he was working both radio and television at WOC for six years. Three years into his tenure, Popo moved full-time over to the sports department. In July 1979, Popo moved to Cincinnati taking a job in the sports department at WCPO-TV Channel 9. He was hired by the lead news anchor and general manager Al Schottelkotte who was a legendary figure in the television news industry. We talk about quite a few of his former co-workers in the sports department over the years. They include working with Jack Moran and Tim Melton when he first joined the station. Dennis Janson, who he worked with for 29 years, plus quite a few up-and-coming talents that went on to do great things in the business. Popo has lots of great stories including an interview he conducted with Muhammad Ali at Staggs Barbershop in Avondale. John talks about a close encounter that he was lucky enough not to be involved in when the newsroom was taken hostage on October 15, 1980. Click here read a story with video footage from the original incident on one of the anniversaries of the event. In 1980, at the suggestion of Schottelkotte, Popo created a show called Sports Of All Sorts that aired after the Sunday night newscast. The show started with feature stories but eventually evolved into a weekly full length episode that even had live calls from viewers. This show is still on the air and is the longest running sports show in the country. He bounce around talking about of the more interesting people and subjects he has covered over the years. These include the Bengals during the Super Bowl runs and the dismal years, the return and fall of Pete Rose, the meteoric rise of local boxing champion Aaron Pryor, the Crosstown Shootout, college basketball in the area and high school sports. As we start to wrap up Popo talks about him cleaning out his desk in his last months at WCPO and sharing some of those one-of-a-kind memorabilia items he collected over the course of his tenure. He admits that he doesn’t miss the daily grind of putting together a newscast everyday but misses all of the people he met and worked with over the years. Popo is not as active on Twitter as we once was but you can still follow him @Popo_WCPOSports You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
    1 hr 26 min
  • Adam Baum
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Adam Baum. Adam is the daily beat reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer’s coverage of the Xavier University men’s basketball program. Adam grew on the Westside of Cincinnati and is very proud of his heritage and we talked extensively about what it is like to be a Westsider. He also acknowledges that there are many quirks as far as how serious people take their grade school sports but does not apologize for it as he explains that dynamic. He graduated from Elder High School and played both football and baseball for the Panthers. Adam talks about what a thrill it was to play in one of the country’s most famous high school football stadiums known as “The Pit.” Adam played on a state championship team for head coach Doug Ramsey. He also talks a statistical anomaly that he achieved that makes him stand out in the hollowed history of Elder football. He also played on the baseball team at Elder for head coach Mark Thompson. He jokes about “back-dooring” his way to state championship ring working as the bullpen catcher for the team. Adam tells a story about a lazy decision in filling out his class schedule for senior year at Elder ultimately lead to his journalism career. As a freshman at the University of Cincinnati in the journalism department he landed a job with the Cincinnati Enquirer answering the score phone. That entry level position led to his role expanding to cover high school sports. A couple of his more memorable stories include one about his dad who tragically pasted away just three weeks after being hired full-time onto the high school sports beat. Another was about Griffin James, a pitcher from CHCA whose father was battling cancer and Griffin promising to pitch a perfect game in his honor. In 2018, Adam is promoted to take over the full-time beat covering the Xavier University men’s basketball team. Adam earns this position in part by doing a great job covering the Cincinnati Reds spring training that year as a fill-in after a number of staff defections at the Enquirer. Of course, you can’t talk about Xavier basketball without getting into the Crosstown Shootout rivalry between the Musketeers and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. Other aspects of the beat we talk about are chasing down rumors to confirm or deny the factuality of stories that are out there. Also, the recruiting circuit has developed into its own sub culture that can be difficult to navigate. We wrap things up talking about the newspaper business in modern times and how drastically in has changed just in the 14 years that Adam has worked for the Enquirer. You can follow Adam and his coverage of Xavier on Twitter @AdamJBaum You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 3 min
  • Mike "Kash" Kashirsky
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Mike Kashirsky. “Kash” is currently a batting practice pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and a college basketball official. However, I feel like this audience will be more in tune with his time coaching the Windy City Thunderbolts of the independent Frontier League. “Kash” played college baseball at St. Joseph College in the late 1990’s. St. Joe’s was a great D-II program based in the Great Lakes Valley Conference until the school closed in 2017. The Pumas were national runners-up in 1996 behind the arm of pitcher Rick O’Dette. Kash talks about some of his teammates including O’Dette who would later become the head coach and is now the skipper at St. Leo University, and Jason Becker who coached with Kash at Roosevelt University. The late Brandon Hardy was also on those teams and Kash tells a great story about Brandon and how St. Joe’s created the Brandon Hardy Award. Kash played some professional baseball including a stint with the Cook County Cheetahs of the independent Frontier League. His initial meeting with his manager, former big league outfielder Ron LeFlore, was a memorable one. LeFlore was arrested in 1999 for failure to pay child support by Kash’s father who was a police officer. LeFlore understood the situation and didn’t hold a grudge but he didn’t forget that interaction. When Kash reported to the team one year after the arrest LeFlore call him into his office. LeFlore joking told Kash to take his stuff and leave but after the initial shock told Kash he was kidding and explained he and Kash’s father had become friendly after the arrest. The Cheetahs rebrand to the Windy City Thunderbolts and in 2004 Kash is named to the coaching staff. He reminisces fondly about his rommates and fellow staff member Joe Charboneau. Charboneau was quite a character who was the 1980 American League Rookie of the Year for the Cleveland Indians. Brent Bowers managed the team in 2005 and 2006 and Will Flynt was the pitching coach and Kash tells great stories about both of his friends that he is on the T-Bolts staff with during his early years with the team. Andy Haines becomes the manager in Windy City in 2007 and the team has one of the best seasons in Frontier League history. That team won a Frontier League record 68 games on its was to the championship. Kash beomes the interim manager during the 2008 campaign and takes a struggling team on quite a ride. The team goes on a 37-14 to end the regular season with 60 wins and another Western Division title. Kash looks back on that memorable 2008 Frontier League playoffs starting with winning a tough division round win over the favored Southern Illinois Miners. The 2008 championship series will be most remember for the flood that happened in Kalamazoo just before the start of the series. Four inches on water deemed Homer Stryker Field as being unplayable and the entire series was moved to Standard Bank Ballpark which was called the Thunder Dome. Kash talks about working as a bench coach in 2009 with Tommy Thompson and finally becoming the full time manager for the 2010 and 2011 season. Kash left Windy City as the all-time leader in wins (141), since broken by Ron Biga, and his jersey number is retired at the ballpark. In 2013, Kash is hired by the Chicago White Sox as the left handed batting practice pitcher. Kash talks about being in the big leagues and working with some of the best hitters in the game. Kash is a very engaging and funny guy and his success has clearly not changed him a bit over the years. Photo credits goes to NPG Sports and Synergy Sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 3 min
  • Chris Hook
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers Chris Hook. “Hooky” grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky and graduated from Lloyd Memorial High School. He played sports growing up for Dixie Knothole and Erlanger Lions Club but it was baseball that he would develop of love for and make it his passion. After a successful high school career he played in college for Bill Aker at Northern Kentucky University. Hooky was a three-year letter winner as a starting pitcher from 1987-89. His junior year team in 1989 went 45-9 and just missed an appearance in the NCAA D-II World Series. Hooky signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds organization after his junior season at NKU. He signed after a college tryout and played five years in the Reds organization. Hooky was traded to the San Francisco Giants organization and was called up to the big leagues in 1995. He spent parts of two seasons in the big leagues earning five wins in 55 bullpen appearances. After being sent down in 1996 he pitched until 1999 when he retired and came back to his new home in Florence, Kentucky. Hooky returned to NKU as the pitching coach for the Norse for three seasons before joining the expansion Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League in 2003. After a tumultuous five year stint with the Freedom he was hired by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2008 to be the pitching coach for the Double-A affiliate Huntsville Stars. In 2018, Hooky returned to the big leagues as the Brewers pitching coach after the departure of Derek Johnson. Cover photo credit goes to Scott Paulus/Milwaukee Brewers You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 19 min
  • Rich Linville
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Linville who each night writes the Scoreboard Stumper question during Cincinnati Reds games at Great American Ballpark. Rich grew up a Reds fan on the Eastside of Cincinnati during the 1970s. He attributes his deep love for the Reds from the radio calls each night by the legendary team of Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall. Interestingly enough his favorite baseball player was Kansas Royals third basemen and Hall of Famer George Brett. As a child of he 70’s, Rich talks about collecting baseball cards, reading box scores in the newspaper and watching the national game of the week and “This Week in Baseball.” Rich graduated from Anderson High School and later Northern Kentucky University. He interned in the sports department at WLWT Channel 5 in Cincinnati. This is where he was given the opportunities to join the Cincinnati Reds scoreboard production crew. It was 1988 and the Reds has just installed a video board at Riverfront Stadium and initially relied heavily on employees from Channel 5 to help operate the board. As an intern, Rich started as a fill-in and after a couple of seasons was a full-time crew member starting with the 1990 season. In 1991, he was given the full-time assignment of writing the Scoreboard Stumper question. This question was and still is a staple of the ballpark experience at both Riverfront Stadium (later known as Cinergy Field) and Great American. Rich has made this responsibly his own and spends time year-round developing questions for all 81 home dates. We obviously talk about some of the details of how the questions are constructed. This veers off into a conversation about Rich’s appearance on a trivia show that aired on the MLB Network. Rich also has had some great behind-the-scenes stories about his interactions with famous personalities that he comes across at the ballpark. We finish up with some of the great moments in Reds history that Rich witnessed in person at his perch in the Scoreboard control room over the course of the last 33 seasons. You can follow Rich on Twitter where he has current and classic Scoreboard Stumper questions its @ScoreboardRich You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 9 min
  • Kennedy Berkley
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Kennedy Berkley. Kennedy was a three-sport athlete at Campbell County High School who went off to Murray State University as a track and field competitor and returned to the Lady Camels as the head volleyball coach winning back-to-back 10th Region championships. Kennedy’s first love of sports was actually gymnastics but eventually settled on volleyball, basketball and track and field. Her dad Nick and his two brothers were all quarterbacks at Bellevue High School and her mother Jennie was an athlete at Elida High School in Lima, Ohio. Kennedy went to Campbell County Middle School and at volleyball tryouts she meet Chandler Gray. Kennedy and Chandler hit it off immediately and are still best friends to this day. The two of them plus a large number of their classmates would team up be a successful generation of Lady Camel athletes. The late Greg Rose brought a group of these girls together coaching them as seventh graders on their team that was called Camels Select. Kennedy has found memories of Greg and his antics to get the girls ready for games. Kennedy’s high school volleyball career lasted five seasons where the battles between Campbell County and Newport Central Catholic became legendary. Her sophomore year brought back memories of the Lady Camels hosting the region tournament and losing in heart breaking fashion. The senior class was lead by two Division-I signees, Natalie Penrod (Tennessee Tech) and Jenna Cavanaugh (Youngstown State) plus a younger core that included Kennedy and Chandler. During her basketball career, Kennedy played for both Ed Cravens and Mike Murray. Unfortunately, six games into her senior year she suffered a torn ACL and was out for the remainder of the season. On senior day, Coach Murray came up with a plan to include an injured Kennedy to score a basket at the opening tip despite being injured. That team would go on to be runners-up in the 10th Region tournament falling to Montgomery County. The Lady Indians were a juggernaut in the middle of a nine-year consecutive run as region champs. Kennedy looks back fondly on the atmosphere during that championship game and how exciting it was inside the Campbell County Middle School gym. Track and field is actually where she had her most individual and team success. Her sophomore year the girls track and field team won the 2010 KHSAA 3A state championship. The Lady Camels won four region championships in her track career and she set school school records, one of which (triple jump) still stand to this day. Despite the knee injury as a senior, Murray State honors the scholarship offer and Kennedy is a four-year member of the Racers indoor and outdoor track and field program. After graduating from college, Kennedy returned home to Campbell County and accepted a teaching job within just a few days. She also was hired as the head volleyball coach as the tender age of 22. In 2018, the Lady Camels went on an incredible winning streak that resulted in the most successful season in program history. We first talk about hosting the 10th Region tournament and the unbelievable and unprecedented crowd support that helps carry the team to the title. That season concluded in the final four of the state tournament. After losing seven seniors from that team the Lady Camels repeated as region champs and another trip to the state tournament the next year. Kennedy is currently working on her masters degree and wants to pursue a career in education as a school psychology. You can follow Kennedy on Twitter @kenn-kate You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 21 min
  • Eric Thompson
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Eric Thompson who is the JV head basketball coach at McNicholas High School and a former team manager for men’s basketball team at Xavier University. Eric has a great story about positivity and inspiration. He was diagnosed as a child with a form of muscular dystrophy called spinal muscular atrophy. He has been in a wheelchair since the age of 9 but it does not get him down or be what defines him. He grew up on the Eastside of Cincinnati and attended St. Thomas More grade school and graduated from Archbishop McNicolas High School. He credits the love of sports as being the bonding agent with him and the other kids while growing to become his friends. He kept the stats and was a team manager for the McNick baseball and basketball programs while in high school. This led to him wanting to pursue a profession in the sports field. After attending the University of Kentucky for his freshman year and working there in the Athletics Communications Department, Eric transfers back home to attend Xavier University. Eric befriends former Xavier basketball player Sherwin Anderson who introduces him to the legendary Sr. Rose Ann Fleming. Sister Fleming picks up the phone with and Eric and his parents in her office and calls head coach Chris Mack. Just like that Eric becomes a team manager for the men’s basketball program. Eric looks back on some of the great memories of his time with the basketball program. He is there for three seasons and some of the stories are just incredible including having an up close vantage point for the infamous Crosstown Shootout that ended in controversy. After his time with the basketball team ends Eric sticks around to intern under Sports Information Director Tom Eiser while working on his masters degree in Sports Management. Eric moves on to a job in the ticket office before landing his current job with the university as the Annual Giving Officer. Although Eric has a successful professional career he still was missing something and that was having basketball in life. He decides that he wants build on a promising coaching career. While in college he begins coaching for his friends Sherwin Anderson’s Shining Stars AAU program. His leads to numerous stops working his way up the ladder. In the late spring of 2020, he returns to his alma matter and becomes the JV head coach at McNicholas High School. Eric credits and thanks varsity head coach Tim Monahan (his former history teacher) and athletic director Drew Schmidt (a former schoolmate) for bringing him back home to McNick. Eric admits that one day he would love to be a varsity head coach but as for now he couldn’t be any happier than to be back on Beechmont Avenue coaching for the Rockets. You can follow Eric on Twitter @Eric_Thompson10 and the McNicholas Basketball program @McNBasketball program You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 4 min
  • Rich Hoyt
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is Rich Hoyt, a college basketball analyst for both Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University women’s teams and a freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School. Rich grew up in Indianapolis and attended Cardinal Ritter High School. Like most Indiana natives he grew up a huge basketball fan and followed the Indiana Hoosiers led by the legendary Bobby Knight. Rich also followed the Butler Bulldogs and attended many games at the historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. This brings up a discussion about some of the great basketball venues in the state of Indiana that include Hinkle, IU’s Assembly Hall, Newcastle High School and Ben Davis High School. When Rich was a young lad he was a ballboy at the Midwestern City Conference Tournament (precursor to the Horizon League) played at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. Rich later found a photo of himself in the background as Xavier University great Byron Larkin is hitting the shot that made him the Musketeer’s all-time leading scorer. Rich graduated from Indiana University and actually took a class that was taught by Coach Knight. Rich talks about how much fun that class was and how much he learned from “The General.” He moves on to Xavier University starting as a marketing intern and than later took a graduate assistant position. He makes some great contacts while working for the basketball program including but not exclusive to David West, Romain Soto and Alan Majors. While at Xavier, Rich becomes a coach and begins working on the girls basketball team at Roger Bacon High School. He eventually moves to the boys team at Roger Bacon working under the head coach Bill Brewer and later Brian Neal. Rich becomes the head coach of his own program when he takes over at Summit Country Day. The Silver Knights win the district title for the first time in over 20 years and he earns Coach of the Year honors. He steps down as the head coach at Summit for family reasons but still needs a basketball fix so he turns to broadcasting. He helps lead a student broadcast production for Summit games as they win a state championship in 2012 led by his successor Michael Bradley. Rich continued his broadcasting career as he catches on over at Xavier to team up with Mike Schmaltz as the broadcast team for the women’s basketball program. In 2017, Rich adds the Northern Kentucky University women’s basketball team to his broadcast schedule. He and his partner Matt Sexton were on the call as the Norse accomplish its first 20-win season as a Division-I program in 2020. Rich officially got back into high school coaching after a 10-year hiatus when he was hired as the freshman basketball coach at Covington Catholic High School. He also brings up that his wife, the former Kim Powers, who is a Northern Kentucky athletics legend. The Dixie Heights High School graduate went on to become a six-time All-American as a diver at Stanford University. You can also follow Rich on Twitter @CoachHoyt You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 3 min
  • Madison Temple
    My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the all-time leading scorer at Thomas More University Madison Temple. Madison grew up in Anderson Township which is on the Eastside of Cincinnati so I started by asking her a fun but difficult question. I asked her to compare the Eastside to the Westside since she made a lot of friends in college from the Westside. We talk about her start playing basketball being a teammate of her older sister Haley on a team that was coached by her mom Ceci who played collegiately at Belmont University. Madison played in high for head coach Chris Careltti at Anderson High School. Her older sister Haley also played with Madison for two seasons. The Redskins won the ECC regular season title as Madison was Player of the Year in the league, leading the conference in scoring and rebounding. Unfortunately she tears her ACL just before the playoffs are to begin that sophomore season and is out for the remainder of the year. After a difficult and grueling rehab process she returns for her junior season. She averaging a double-double but again late in the season she suffers an ACL tear in her other knee. Madison makes it back in time for her senior year where she wins her second ECC Player of the Year award leading the Redskins to another conference championship. She had plenty of college scholarship offers but her options became limited after two major knee injuries. She wasn’t even sure if she wanted to play in college until Thomas More University head coach Jeff Hans decides not to give up on her. Madison commits late in the process to the Saints and the rest is history. In her four years at Thomas More, Madison wins two national championships and becomes the program’s all-time leading scorer. She also is tops on the all-time list for assist, field goals and free throws. In 2019, she is named the NCAA D-III National Player of Year. We talk about playing for Coach Hans, her teammates and the memories made during those deep tournament runs. Today Madison is working a full-time job for a financial institution and coaching high school basketball. She is currently an assistant coach at West Clermont High School under head coach Jeff Click. You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected] Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
    1 hr 11 min

About Nobody's Safe with Brady Laber

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Brady Laber has worked in a bevy of different positions in sports media, and he's bringing you stories and personalities that he and his guests have come across throughout the years. Nobody is safe.…