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Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-Navy Men's Soccer Coach Tim O'Donohue and CDR Carl J Tamulevich, USN (Ret.)'68, who serves as the Senior Associate Director of Scheduling and Team Support.

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Guest Bios:

Tim O'Donohue

Tim O'Donohue completed his fifth season as Navy's head men's soccer coach in 2020.

O'Donohue is the sixth head coach in the 100-year history of the Navy men's soccer program.

Prior to arriving at Navy, O'Donohue spent five seasons (2011-2015) as the associate head coach at the University of Connecticut and 10 seasons (2001-10) as the head coach at Division III Stevens Institute of Technology.

O'Donohoe was a four-year starter at Muhlenberg College and helped the team to four-straight NCAA Tournament appearances and a berth in the Final Four in 1995. The central midfielder earned all-conference honors in 1997. He was inducted into the Muhlenberg Athletics Hall of Fame as part of the 1995 men's soccer team. He graduated from Muhlenberg in 1998 with a degree in English. O'Donohue and his wife, Virginia, have four children, Tadgh, Tierney, Teagan and Ruairi.

Carl Tamulevich

CDR Carl J Tamulevich, USN (Ret.) serves as the Senior Associate Director of Scheduling and Team Support at the Naval Academy. Prior to his present position, he was Deputy Director of Athletics and Head of the Physical Education Department. He was a designated Naval Aviator and Surface Warfare Officer.

While attending the Naval Academy he was a standout athlete, lettering in football and lacrosse. In lacrosse, he was a two-time first-team All American and won the William C. Schmeisser Award as the nations top defenseman and the Theodore C. White Award for "Spirit, Morale and Welfare of the Navy Lacrosse Team." In 1989 he was honored with induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

Carl and his wife of 51 years, Lori have two children, CJ and Jeff and seven grandchildren.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital and special guest—-Pete Medhurst, longtime play-by-play voice for Navy football and basketball to discuss the Patriot League Fall Sports announcement.

In a July 13th press release the league made it known that because of COVID-19, "teams will not engage in competition in the fall season," but went on to say because West Point and USNA are "unique in their environments and their missions" those academies may continue with Fall sports at the discretion of their leadership.

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Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital to cover the latest Navy and national sporting news and talk wresting with special guests—-Cary Kolat, Navy Head Wrestling Coach, youngster phenom MIDN 3/C Jacob Koser and wrestling alum and owner of Mills Fine Wine and Liquors, Jerry Donahoe '94.

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Guest Bios:

Cary Kolat

Former national champion and Olympic team member Cary Kolat was named head wrestling coach at Navy on March 20, 2020.

Kolat has established himself as one of the premier coaches in the sport after building a Campbell program into a Southern Conference power and a national name. The Camels have seen unprecedented success over the last four seasons, winning three SoCon Tournament titles (2017, 2019, 2020) and two regular-season SoCon Championships (2019, 2020). Under his tutelage, he has had 19 NCAA Championship qualifiers, 12 individual SoCon Champions and 28 medalists at the SoCon Tournament.

Kolat won four-straight state titles and compiled a perfect 137-0 record at Jefferson-Morgan High School in Green County Pa. He was named Outstanding Wrestler at the state meet each year, an honor no other wrestler had won even twice.

Kolat began his decorated collegiate career at Penn State, where he advanced to the NCAA finals as a freshman. After his sophomore year, he garnered All-America honors for the second-straight season and was named Big Ten Conference Wrestler of the Year. In two seasons at Penn State, Kolat compiled a 61-6 record, including a 39-1 mark as a sophomore.

He transferred to Lock Haven, where he won his first NCAA Division I National Championship in 1996 with a 25-1 record. He finished 25-0 as senior when he won the 142-pound national title. He completed his college wrestling career with a 111-7 overall record and 53 pins.

Kolat earned his Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Lock Haven in 2003. He and his wife, Erin, are the parents of two daughters – Zoe and Gracie, and a son Ryder.

Jerry Donahoe

Jerry Donahoe graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994. He majored in Economics and was a member of the Wrestling team, lettering in 1994. He was teammates with Doug Ziembec.

Donahoe attended Duval High School in Howard County and was the 1990 State Wrestling champion at 152 lbs and also won his 152-lb match at the 1990 Senior All-Star Classic

at Johns Hopkins University.

He was commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer and served as the MPA on USS Ogden and the OIC of Assault Craft Unit 5 in San Diego. He returned to the Naval Academy in 2001 as a Phys Ed instructor and the Athletic Facilities Manager.

He left the Navy and co-founded DDK Technology Group in 2001, a start-up commercial IT firm to a major player in the DoD and Intel markets until it was purchased by ManTech in 2009.

He and his wife, Jennifer (also a 1994 Naval Academy grad), purchased Mills Fine Wine and Liquors in 2012....keeping a mainstay of local Annapolis business in operation. They have two daughters and a son. Jerry's son, Will, is a standout wrestler at Broadneck High School.

Jacob Koser

Jacob Koser is 2018 graduate of Northern York High School in Dillsburg, Pa., Koser attended the Naval Academy Prep School during the 2018-19 academic year. His brother, Kyle, was a three-time NCAA qualifier and 2017 All-American wrestler at Messiah College ... uncle, Rear Admiral Eric Ver Hage, is a 1991 USNA grad.

Wrestling at 197lbs his plebe year, Koser compiled a 21-9 record and was an alternate for the NCAA Championship.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—- NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann '99 about her time as a member of the women’s soccer team and about the latest SpaceX launch. We also chat about the strong bond shared by Navy Rugby alumni with Chris Hoffman '96 and Chris Cleary '96, as they continue to fund the sport at USNA and help it grow nationally. Finally, discuss the latest happenings with Noah Song '19, as it looks like he is flight school bound with his pitching career on hold for the near future. All this and more on Episode 9.

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Guest Bios:

Chris Cleary - 96

Chris Cleary became the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Department of the Navy in October 2019.

The Department of the Navy’s first Chief Information Security Officer Christopher Cleary entered his position as the head of one of four new directorates under the DON Chief Information Officer and Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy for Information Management, Aaron Weis.

As the DON’s Chief Information Security Officer, Cleary is responsible for maintaining the security of DON data and information, regardless of where it resides. He is also responsible for meeting communication security standards, implementing management solutions, setting policy and standards across the DON enterprise, and ensuring DON alignment to the Department of Defense cybersecurity architecture.

Mr. Cleary is a 1996 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

He was a two-time All American Rugby player at Navy. He was a Surface Warfare Officer, and eventually transitioned to Intel and affiliated in the reserves.

Chris Hoffman - 96

Chris Hoffman served as the Deputy Director, Center for Cyber Security Studies, at the U.S. Naval Academy from May 2017 to May 2020. He developed and executed a ground-breaking curriculum for the education and professional training of junior military leaders in the cyber domain. He was responsible for cyber operations academic curriculum, private equity partnership, and US Naval operational training of 4,000 officer candidates per year.

He was commissioned in 1996 and became a Surface Warfare Officer.

He was a four-year Rugby player at USNA and remains very involved with the Rugby alumni events. He recently accepted a position with Red Jack, a cyber operations firm in Reston, Va. He will retire after 24 years of honorable active duty service September 1, 2020.

Nicole Aunapu Mann - 99

Nicole Aunapu Mann was selected by NASA in June 2013. She is currently training for the crew flight test of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, the first crewed flight for that vehicle. Mann and her crewmates are working closely with Boeing to develop their new spacecraft systems, which will provide roundtrip crew transportation services to the International Space Station and, along with SpaceX’s CrewDragon, return the ability to launch humans into space from United States soil.

The Petaluma, California native holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Mann is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps and served as a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet. She deployed twice aboard aircraft carriers in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mann starred on the soccer field at the United States Naval Academy from 1995-1998, building Navy into a perennial power with the first four winning seasons in a streak that would last 21 years.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-Navy Head Football Coach Ken Niumatalolo, Vice Adm. D.C. Curtis USN (ret.) and rising junior MIDN 2/c Diego Fagot

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Guest Bios:

Ken Niumatalolo

In his 12 seasons at the helm of the Navy football program and in his 22 years overall at the Naval Academy, head coach Ken Niumatalolo has engineered a program that has hit on all cylinders more often than not since he took over the reigns at the end of the 2007 campaign.

Navy has had 10 winning seasons and gone to 10 bowl games during Niumatalolo’s time as head coach, which makes it one of the greatest eras in school history.

Niumatalolo has repeatedly guided the Midshipmen to success both on and off the gridiron. Included in his accomplishments are a number of milestones never before achieved by a coach or team in the program’s 139-year history.

Niumatalolo (98-60, .620) is the program’s all-time winningest coach and is the only coach in the history of the Army-Navy game to start his coaching career 8-0 against the other Academy. Niumatalolo’s nine wins against Army are the most in the history of the Army-Navy game, which is the greatest rivalry in all of sports.

A 1989 graduate of Hawai’i, Niumatalolo lettered three years as a quarterback and was a part of Hawaii’s first bowl team in 1989. He was hired as a fulltime assistant by his alma mater in 1992 and spent three seasons coaching on the offensive side of the ball.

A native of La’ie, Hawai’i, Niumatalolo and his wife, Barbara, have three children, Alexcia, Va’a and Ali’i and two granddaughters, Aussie Keanani and Rosie Kuuleimomiokamoananuiakea.

VADM D.C. Curtis

A native of Chicago, VADM Curtis graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1976 where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science. Following commissioning, he attended the Surface Warfare Basic School in Newport, Rhode Island, and was awarded the Arleigh Burke Award.

He holds a Master of Science degree in administration from Central Michigan University and is a graduate of the National Defense University and the NATO Defense College Senior Course.

In his final assignment, Vice Adm. D.C. Curtis served as the third commander of Naval Surface Forces and the 15th commander of the Pacific Fleet’s Naval Surface Force. He was responsible for manning, equipping, training and maintaining more than 160 surface force ships based around the world. He was assisted in that task by his staff and more than 50 major commands and support units of the force.

Diego Fagot

A rising junior, Diego is a 6-3, 240-pound Inside Linebacker from Fort Lauderdale, FL. He enters the fall as a starter at linebacker after an impressive sophomore campaign with a chance to be one of the best linebackers in school history. Fagot has great speed and plays with great ferocity, with the size and the speed to play on the next level. He has started 14 consecutive games dating back to 2018 and has earned two varsity letters.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk and former Superintendent and current President of the University of Nebraska System, Vice Admiral(ret)Ted Carter '81.

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Guest Bios:

Chet Gladchuk

In his 19 years as Director of Athletics, Chet Gladchuk has overseen a resurgence in Navy Athletics. His administrative leadership has helped lead the program to one of the most successful periods in school history.

Since being introduced as the Academy’s 28th Director of Athletics on Sept. 4, 2001, Gladchuk has pressed forward on numerous fronts with energy and vision. From the hiring of some of the top coaches in the country to the renovation of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Gladchuk has made improvements in several key areas that will prove more success on the athletic fields for years to come.

During Gladchuk’s tenure at the Naval Academy, he has seen the Midshipmen win 182 conference titles, produce 242 All-Americans and 107 Academic All-Americans.

Gladchuk’s biggest impact on the Naval Academy has been the $78 million renovation of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium where under his leadership the stadium was completely refurbished over a 10-year time frame. Gladchuk has worked closely with the city, county, state and neighborhood associations to ensure proper communication and sensitivity to issues that benefit both the NAAA and community at large.

Ted Carter

Walter "Ted" Carter, Jr. began his term as the University of Nebraska's eighth president on January 1, 2020.

Carter, 60, served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., from 2014 to 2019, the longest continuously serving superintendent in Annapolis by special request of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. As superintendent – the Naval Academy’s equivalent of a university president – Carter oversaw all functions of the institution, including leadership of 4,400 students and 1,500 faculty and staff, management of a $500 million budget, and oversight of academics, facilities, admissions and policy.

Carter earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and oceanography from the U.S. Naval Academy. He also has educational credentials from the 18-month-long Navy Nuclear Power School, the U.S. Air Force Air War College, the Naval War College and the Armed Forces Staff College.

He currently serves as the chair of the Daugherty Water for Food Institute’s Board of Directors and as a member on the Greater Omaha Chamber Board of Directors, the Nebraska State Commerce Board of Directors, and the Nebraska Medicine Board of Directors. Carter is also a member of the American Council of Presidents for the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and contributes as an Ex Officio member of the NU Foundation Board and Executive Committee.

The son of an English teacher, Carter was raised in Burrillville, R.I., a rural, one-high school town in the northwest corner of the state where he became an accomplished clarinetist and baritone saxophone player. He and his wife, Lynda, are currently transitioning their residence to Lincoln, NE. They have two adult children, Brittany and Christopher.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-Coach Paul Kostacopolous and Midn 1/C Jared Leins.

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Guest Bios:

Coach Paul Kostacopolous

In 15 seasons as head coach of the Navy baseball team, Kostacopoulos has become the program’s second-winningest head coach with 464 victories in Annapolis. After passing Max Bishop (306) on March 20, 2016 with a 7-3 victory over NJIT, he now trails just Joe Duff (595) in the all-time coaching standings.

In 10 of his 15 seasons, the Mids have won at least 30 games; marking the first time that the program has accomplished the feat. In 2016, Kostacopoulos’ Midshipmen squad won a school record 43 games, the most-ever for a Naval Academy athletic team. During the 2019 campaign, he led Navy to the second-most wins in school history with 39. For those within the college baseball ranks, this type of success should not come as a surprise as it has been synonymous with Kostacopoulos throughout his career.

Kostacopoulos earned his bachelor's degree from Providence College in 1987, capping a four-year career as a member of the Friar baseball team. He played 139 games and batted .260. As a senior, he was both captain and defensive player of the year. He comes from a family steeped in New England baseball; his father, Peter Kostacopoulos, recorded over 400 wins in 27 seasons as head baseball coach at Wesleyan University, and his brother, Pete, head coach at the Worcester Academy, has held coaching positions at Colby College, Dartmouth College, and Wesleyan.

Midn 1/C Jared Leins

Jared is a senior from Raleigh, NC. His junior season was cut short by an arm injury and the Covid pandemic, but he was fast becoming one of the better arms on Coach Kostacopolous' pitching staff.

A fantastic student, he's been named to Naval Academy's Commandant's List four times and Dean's List four times and is majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

He was named to the Patriot League All-Tournament Team in 2019. He was a Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American in 2018 and was named Second Team All-Patriot League that same year.

The Sing Second Team speaks with Navy Athletics Sports Information Director Scott Strasemeier about the decision to move the game from Ireland to Annapolis. The game is scheduled to be played over Labor Day Weekend. The video of this discussion is available of the Sing Second Facebook Page.

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-Women's Track and Field star MIDN 1/C Chelsey Edwards, Men's Water polo Coach Nicolao and Water Polo Alums CAPT Jason Salata '94 and Steve Salata '97.

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Guest Bios:

Chelsey Edwards - In her two and a half years, Chelsey has helped the Navy women's team claim four Patriot League Championships (Indoor – 2019, '20; Outdoor – 2018, '19), while earning three stars (Indoor – 2020; Outdoor – 2018, '19) during the annual Army-Navy Star Meet. She is a six-time Patriot League Champion and nine-time All-Patriot League performer (top two finisher).

Coach Nicolao- Luis Nicolao is the USNA Water Polo Head Coach. He graduated from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1992. Nicalao was recently selected for the 2020 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Hall of Fame induction, the first for an active head coach and player. As a Water Polo player at Navy, he was a 3x All American and received the NAAA Sword for Men.

He joined his alma mater as the head coach in January 2018. Previously, he served as the Princeton Head Coach for both Men’s and Women’s water polo for 20 seasons

Jason Salata - Jason was USNA Class of 1994 and played Varsity Water Polo all four years. Captain Salata continues his decorated 26-year career as a public affairs officer and Spokesman for NATO. He and his family live in Southern Italy.

Steve Salata - Steve was USNA Class of 1997 and played Varsity Water Polo all four years. Steve served as a SWO and moved on to COMCAST, where he now is a Senior Executive. Steve and his family live in Philadelphia, PA.

***Credit and disclaimer:

“Play-by-play calls from the Navy Radio Network are used in the opening of the show and from time to time will be part of podcast segments. The thoughts and opinions expressed on this pod are our own—and don’t represent the views of the Naval Academy Athletic Association, U.S. Naval Academy...or any other organization for that matter.”

Welcome to the Sing Second Sports Podcast--a weekly pod for Navy fans by Navy fans. On this episode we are joined by Bill Wagner of the Annapolis Capital, special guests—-mens basketball coach Ed DeChellis, men's lacrosse standout MIDN 1/C Tyler Perreten and Men's Basketball phenom Mike Heary '98.

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Guest Bios:

Coach Ed DeChellis

Ed DeChellis just completed his ninth season as the head coach of the Mids, his 24th year as a head coach and his 38th season as a collegiate coach. DeChellis has guided Navy to 94 victories over the last six seasons, including 54 wins in league regular season games. This is after the program had totaled 79 overall wins over the previous seven seasons and 43 victories against league foes in the previous nine years.

Tyler Perreten

Tyler Perreten just completed his junior year at the Naval Academy and is a member of the Lacrosse team. Tyler is from Crofton, Md., and graduated from the Severn School in 2016. He attended the Naval Academy Prep School and arrived in Annapolis in 2017. As a freshman, he made his first career appearance in the Mids’ 15-5 win over Lafayette where he dealt out his first collegiate assist and grabbed a ground ball. In his sophomore season, he saw action in 4 games and scored his first collegiate goal in the Mids’ win over Bucknell in the league opener.

Perreten burst on the scene in the abbreviated 2020 season. He tallied two goals and an assist in a win over Furman. He notched a hat trick against Lehigh, and exploded for 5 goals and two assists in a big win vs Colgate before the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus. He is majoring in Quantitative Economics.

Mike Heary

Mike Heary is a 1998 graduate of the Naval Academy and was a four-year starter for Coach Don Devoe's basketball program. The Fredonia, NY, native was given a piece of paper as a teenager with a quotation written on it by his sister, Michele. It read: "When you do it better, you get to be the leader." Heary learned the game from his late father, Tom, who had played at Canisius College. At school, in the driveway at home or in mother Rita's kitchen, Heary always seemed to have a basketball in his hands. His high school career was quite decorated, and he was inducted into the Chautauqua County Hall of Fame in 2009. He scored a county record 62 points in a game and was a heralded sharp-shooter from the northern NY area. He was recruited by several high-profile Division I programs, but settled on Navy.

Mike finished his four-year career with a scoring average of 14.1 points. He led the Mids to the NCAA tournament in 1997 and 1998, the last year the program reached the tournament. Heary is the 6th all-time leading scorer in Navy history and is known as one of the greats of the program.

Mike service selected Surface Warfare upon graduation and served two tours in the fleet before returning to his alma mater in the early 2000s on the NAAA staff in Ricketts Hall. Heary left the Navy in 2005, and he is now the Director of Sales and Marketing for CDS Logistics in Baltimore, MD.

Mike remains involved in the Navy basketball program having just completed his 10th season as the color commentator for Navy basketball games on WNAV radio.

***Credit and disclaimer:

“Play-by-play calls from the Navy Radio Network are used in the opening of the show and from time to time will be part of podcast segments. The thoughts and opinions expressed on this pod are our own—and don’t represent the views of the Naval Academy Athletic Association, U.S. Naval Academy...or any other organization for that matter.”