Rich Take On Sports

The daughter of a high school football coach growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Victoria Carmen has only known that sports and family are synonymous which is one of the reasons she wanted to pursue a career in sports.

Her journey as a sports reporter and anchor has taken her to Wyoming, Ohio, Florida, upstate NY and now she continues that journey in Greenville, SC as the news anchor for Fox Carolina News where sports continues to be one of her loves.

Live moves so fast that most of us only focus on what's next but once Roy Philpott truly understood the importance of being great where you are in life he began to see how this would guide him on his path to follow his passion becoming a play-by-play broadcaster.

Now he's living that dream as an ESPN play-by-play broadcaster and you can even find him on SiriusXM as a sports talk radio host as well.

ESPN Senior Writer Andrea Adelson has been able to flourish in a male-dominated industry because of her belief that strength is power and the importance of setting goals which include even having incremental goals.

After telling her dad as a kid that she wanted to be a sports writer, Andrea would attend the University of Florida before she would embark on her career with various stops ultimately landing with ESPN where you can find her covering colleges sports with an ACC emphasis.

Sports talk radio host and play-by-by broadcaster William Qualkinbush understands that in life there will be times that we must choose a side but he also believes that sometimes the answer to which side you choose can simply be yes.

Currently, you can find him co-hosting "Out of Bounds" from 12-3 PM each weekday with Kelly Gramlich heard on 105.5 & 97.5 The Roar while he also serves as the radio play-by-play voice for Clemson baseball and women’s basketball.

Jonathan Gantt has experienced the power of paying it forward throughout his life from his mentors which is why it's so meaningful for him to do the same in his Associate AD/Creative Solutions role at Clemson University where he's been helping lead the digital transformation for Clemson Athletics beginning in 2013. His team’s work has helped the Tigers earn recognition from Forbes, Sports Business Journal, Sports Illustrated, and others.

He would begin understanding the power of social media and digital content while working for Ripken Baseball and the Tampa Bay Rays in media relations roles before helping Clemson Athletics become a nationally recognized leader in social and digital content.

"What drives you?" is a question that Jason Donnelly not only has asked himself but also uses this question to help understand what motivates others throughout his basketball coaching career in high school and college where he served as an integral part of the 2 National Championships in 2016 and 2018 for Villanova University and Hall of Fame Coach Jay Wright.

Since 2019, Jason has served as the Director of Athletics for Furman University in Greenville, SC where he continues to focus on the Optimist Creed while striving to inspire, educate and develop outstanding student-athletes through a culture of excellence, prestigious liberal arts, and sciences education, and nationally competitive athletics programs.

As a highly recruited 4-star Linebacker, Bryton Constantin future on the football field looked bright after signing with Clemson University and Head Coach Dabo Swinney as part of the 2019 recruiting class, however, three ACL surgeries in less than 3 years would force Bryton to make the difficult decision to leave the game that he loved but it only reinforced his belief of having a long-term vision mindset where he knows his future is still bright even if he's not on the football field.

The Junkyard, a HIIT studio in upstate South Carolina, continues to be an example for Co-founder Marcus Brown of how you can find success by doing what you enjoy. After playing football at Newberry College, Marcus and co-founder Ben Boulware would begin their entrepreneurial quest in 2018 opening their first Junkyard location in Anderson, SC with bigger plans beyond the second location in Greenville, SC which opened in 2020 as Marcus shares how sports helped him understand that you can define success in multiple ways.

Growing up in the sports-crazed city of Chicago, Sarah Spain was able to find her place through sports which became a place that she could fit in even at an early age and where she continues to utilize all of her skills and passions in a sports career with ESPN that she didn't necessarily envision as she shares part of that journey in our 150th episode.

It was first on the football field that Brian Kight felt freedom and also discovered the power of sports by requiring you to understand yourself in relation to the people around you and he soon began to recognize the importance of employing simple systems which would enable you to be disciplined in all walks of life which he continues to use as an entrepreneur, speaker, executive coach and author of dailydiscipline.com.