Telich Talks

Claude Holland was a 3 time All State athlete at Cleveland’s John Adam’s high, and a college track standout at the University of Cincinnati. He coached John Adams (1982) and Cleveland Heights (2008) to state track titles. Holland was named Nike National Track coach of the year,and is in the Ohio Association of track and cross country coaches Hall of Fame. He’s a highly regarded mentor of track athletes, and often the voice at many track meets all over the region. He started the Rebel track club years ago which has produced many state finals caliber athletes . His late mother, Bernice Robinson Holland was a 1948 Olympic track and field standout. With the Paris Olympic games in the second week we talked about some of the highlights so far and about Hollands approach to coaching.

Lauren Brill is the founder of The Unsealed, an online writing community that shares inspirational open letters that encourage strength and compassion. Brill is a former television sportscaster at stations WIVB in Buffalo, New York, and WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio and MSG Varsity in metropolitan New York,

City. While in Cleveland , Brill wrote an open letter detailing her experience with sexual violence while in college . The online letter went viral, and in a way, led to her starting The Unsealed on July 24,2019.

Since its inception, the on line community has shared inspiring letters of people from close to 200 countries worldwide. For Lauren, it’s always been about story telling.