Archive for November, 2012

Inside Athletics: November 30, 2012

November 30th, 2012

Listen to the podcast. In this week’s “Inside Athetics” podcast, Sports Information Director James De Boer rides solo.  He opens talking about the excitement building for the track & field season, which opens this weekend.  With both basketball teams opening their ODAC seasons this week, James also talks about some trends we might see this [...]

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Inside Athletics: November 27, 2012

November 27th, 2012

Listen to the podcast. In today’s podcast, Dave is joined by Sue Kolb, the Assistant Athletic Director for Student Athlete Well-being.  They review the work that Sue did last year in tracking attendance and academic progress as a means of improving retention rates.  Sue outlines the program that was implemented, the follow-up work that was [...]

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Inside Athletics: November 16, 2012

November 16th, 2012

Listen to the podcast. This week Dave takes a break from reporting results and highlights of sports action and focuses on the issue of athletic scholarships. He references a series of articles by Bill Pennington that appeared in the Ney York Times in 2008. The articles were based on, at that time, recently disclosed information [...]

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Inside Athletics: November 12, 2012

November 12th, 2012

Listen to the podcast. This week, Dave’s guest is Roger Mast, head men’s soccer coach. In the weeks in between the fall and winter sports, Dave takes the opportunity to visit with Coach Mast and reflect on the recent men’s soccer season. Besides commenting on his team’s season, Coach Mast provides insights into the parity [...]

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Inside Athletics: November 2, 2012

November 2nd, 2012

Listen to the podcast. This week, Dave’s guest is Jason Lewkowicz, head coach for the cross country and track and field.  With the cross country teams fresh off the ODAC Championship meet and preparing for the NCAA Regional Meet on November 10, Jason discusses the progress his teams have made and the preparations underway for [...]

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