With the women’s volleyball and men’s water polo seasons nearing their conclusions, we brought on two of their senior student-athletes -- Ashley Harris (1:03) and Kenneth Keller (22:10) -- to reflect upon their time at Pepperdine as they close out their college careers.

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This is our second straight basketball season preview podcast, this time with Pepperdine men’s head coach Marty Wilson. We talk about how he’s built the 2017-18 team, what the expectations are and about each player on the roster.

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First-year Pepperdine women’s basketball head coach DeLisha Milton-Jones returns to the podcast to help preview the 2017-18 season, which begins on November 10. We talk about what she’s trying to build and go down the roster to discuss each of the young women on the squad.

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Pepperdine Athletics inducted another five greats into its Hall of Fame on October 15. We conducted brief interviews with each of the all-time great Waves on the night of the ceremony: Vilma Charlton of track (1:13), Paul Faries of baseball (7:49), Angela (Lawrence) Hendy of tennis (15:02), Jesse Smith of water polo (21:45) and Michael Zapolski of administration (29:41).

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Student-athletes Meagan Harbison of women’s soccer (1:06) and Mark Urban of men’s water polo (16:19) are our guests this week. Both seniors were key members of conference champions a year ago and hope to help their teams repeat this fall.

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With this being the 20th anniversary of Pepperdine’s NCAA water polo championship, we brought back Merrill Moses, the starting goalkeeper on that team and the Waves’ current associate head coach, for his second appearance on the podcast. This one is Pepperdine-centric, starting with the 1997 NCAA title and later going into his transition into coaching here.

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Student-athletes Nikki Lyons of volleyball (1:03) and Kevin Maeda of cross country/track (15:00) are our interview subjects this week. Lyons is a two-sport standout, being a key member of both the indoor and beach teams. Maeda, in addition to being a top runner, is co-president of Pepperdine Athletics’ Waves Leadership Council.

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Jonathan Winder, who won a national championship with the Pepperdine men’s volleyball team and was also an AVCA National Player of the Year, returned to campus recently in his position as an assistant coach with the Washington women’s volleyball program. We talked about his time with the Waves, playing for and coaching with Marv Dunphy, his time with the U.S. National Team, how he got into coaching and what he’s doing now.

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Jamie Van Horn of the Pepperdine women’s soccer team (1:12) and Zack Rhodes of the men’s water polo team (15:47) were both integral parts of conference champions last year, and both would like to help their respective teams repeat as seniors. They share their stories on this week’s podcast.

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The 50th episode of the Pepp Talk podcast features Pepperdine’s Director of Athletics, Dr. Steve Potts. He shares his unique story of going from a law school professor and administrator to becoming an athletic director. We also talk his big three things that make up Pepperdine Athletics’ mission, his philosophy for hiring coaches and what he tells recruits about Pepperdine.

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