Persons of Interest

Graphic Design has been an interest of mine for a long time so it was only a matter of time before it became a podcast topic for me. My guest in this episode is Steve Wilson from Clarksville, Tennessee. Steve is a graphic and web designer and brand specialist that has done his share of design work over the years. In addition, he’s also written a book titled “The Why of Sports Design.” Steve and I discuss our graphic design beginnings, skills, software, and the inspiration behind his book.

Follow Steve Wilson on Twitter: @ScoreCreative

Check out Steve's website: https://www.scorecreative.net/

Check out Steve's portfolio on Behance: https://www.behance.net/sawdesigns

"The Why of Sports Design" by Steve Wilson on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1987402472

The name Nafis Ricks might sound familiar to some of my Missouri State friends because he was the starting point guard on the 2010-2011 Bears Basketball team that won the regular-season Missouri Valley Conference championship. But his story isn’t just about basketball. Nafis made the most of his opportunities to get an education while also overcoming personal struggles. In this podcast, he describes how he landed at Missouri State, his connection with coach Cuonzo Martin, playing abroad, working as a graduate assistant at Mizzou, and what he hopes to achieve in the future.

I encourage you to read this story about Nafis: LINK - https://rvls.co/3e1kXF2

Follow Nafis Ricks on Twitter: @NafisRicks

Matt Gardner has made the most of his career in sports. Working in Tennis, NBA, and currently the Vice President, Digital Media & Emerging Technology for the St. Louis Blues, he shares some insight into how he got started working in sports, how technology has shaped his career, and developing relationships with the athletes to tell their story. Matt also discusses the work of the St. Louis Blues digital team and the content they produced during the 2018-2019 season as the team won the Stanley Cup.

The “official” Julie Smith description:  Julie has been teaching media literacy and media-related classes at the university level since 1997.  She holds her B.A. in Public Relations from the University of Tulsa and her M.S. in Mass Communication from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville.  Julie is currently on the faculty at Webster University in St Louis.

She is the author of “Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-In World” and over the last three years has traveled all over the world helping teachers and parents with media literacy, digital citizenship, classroom engagement, and social media.  Julie is currently working on a book advocating for more engagement in the college classroom. (via HeyJulieSmith.com)

Follow Julie on Twitter: @julnilsmith

My guests in this podcast are Bill Behrns, Ryan Haley, Austin Hansen, and Jeremiah McCallie. These four gentlemen were part of Loyola’s run to the final four, serving as part of the athletic department staff in communications, social media, and video content. Together we watched the Ramblers take on Miami and the guys shared stories and thoughts about the game and the run to the final four.

Watch the game with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-cYN73rU3s

Chester Lampkin first joined WUSA 9 in December 2019. Chester comes from KSDK-TV in St. Louis, Missouri, the sister station of WUSA 9. As a child growing up in St. Louis, Chester has always had a strong interest in weather. While growing up, he experienced some big weather events, including the "blizzard" of 1982 and the Great Flood of 1993.

His broadcast career began in Grand Junction, Colorado, as the morning meteorologist at KJCT News 8. Chester also worked at KRCG-TV in Jefferson City, Missouri, as both the morning and chief meteorologist, and at KTSM-TV, the NBC affiliate in El Paso, Texas, as the morning meteorologist.

Chester earned a bachelor's degree in meteorology from Saint Louis University and completed post-graduate work in geography at the University of Missouri.

Aside from the weather, Chester has an interest in geography, media, music, jogging, travel, baseball, and college basketball. Chester lives with his family in the Maryland suburbs, but can be found exploring the entire DMV with his partner and son.

You can contact Chester at [email protected] and follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

(via WUSA9.com)

Highly respected sports journalist Paul Suellentrop joined Wichita State as a senior communicator to provide comprehensive coverage of the Shockers' momentous first season competing in the American Athletic Conference and beyond. 

Follow Paul on Twitter: @PaulSuellentrop

Earlier this year, The Springfield Cardinals announced the promotion of Matt Turer from Public Relations Coordinator to the organization's newly created position of Public Relations & Digital Media Specialist. Matt joined the team in November 2017, leading the social and digital media efforts, serving as the team’s public relations contact and digital marketing copywriter. In this podcast, Matt and I discuss his career path that led to the Springfield Cardinals, his experience thus far, and more.

Follow Matt on Twitter: @MattTurer

Follow The Springfield Cardinals: @SGF_Cardinals

David Kvidahl covers prep sports in the St. Louis area for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLHighSchoolSports.com. In this podcast, I talked with David about his time covering prep sports in town, some of his favorite prep sports memories, and the recent all-decade team selections that were a hot topic on social media.

Follow David on Twitter: @DavidSTLhss

Follow STLHighSchoolSports on Twitter: @STLhssports

Joel Adam has been a physical education teacher and coach at Holt High School, Wentzville Middle School, and Wentzville South Middle School in the Wentzville School District for 30 years. He has coached baseball, softball, basketball and football, winning conference championships, district title and reaching state finals on multiple occasions. The longtime educator and coach was recognized as Holt High School teacher of the year this year and will retire at the end of the school year. In this podcast, Coach Adam reflects on his time at Holt at a teacher, shares stores about coaching his own children, and being the high school baseball coach for eventual major league players Ross Detwiler and Tim Melville.