The Chant Pod: Recent Episodes
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We flip the script on the podcast, interviewing host Sam Weiderhaft as he heads down 501 to be the voice of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans!
Head Coach of the 2-0 WLAXers joins the Pod as the home opener on Saturday fast approaches!
The Softball Chants are finally going to get their season started this weekend and host Sam Weiderhaft has Softball standout Courtney Dean on the pod to talk about it!
Host Sam Weiderhaft welcomes University President Dr. Michael T. Benson to the Pod to discuss the President's First 100 Days, CCU Athletics, and more!
Back on the links to talk to the head of the women's golf program Coach Katie Quinney - coming off a tournament win the Chants are looking to keep things going on the the links this spring!
States Fort, fresh off the Any Given Tuesday individual and team win for the Chants, joins the Chant Pod to talk CCU men's golf and more!
This week, The Chant Pod takes a look at the women's basketball team and is joined by the leading returner from last year's historic season-Aja Blount. Host Sam Weiderhaft talks with Aja about restarting their season after a 28-day break between games, and how this team is improving with each week. Sam also breaks down the men's basketball wins from the past weekend, and looks ahead to this weekend's matchups.
The Chant Pod Returns for Season 3 (we made up when seasons end, but it works) as we look at MBB and Sun Belt leading scorer Devante Jones!
The Chant Pod talks to Defensive Coordinator Chad Staggs after the Chants held high powered BYU to 17 points in a historic win.
Football play-by-play voice Joe Cashion visits the podcast to preview the biggest Saturday in Coastal Carolina history.
Our second Sun Belt Championship of the year is upon us at WSOC takes on UL Wednesday at Noon on ESPN+ - that and more on this edition of The Chant Pod!
The MSOC team is undefeated in large part to our guest this week on the pod! We welcome Tor Saunders and also hit on all things Chant Athletics!
Charles Ouverson joins the pod with some great insight into the CCU Football program, plus all the info you need from CCU Athletics!
Another big pod! Lina Perugini joins Sam as the Volley Chants get ready to keep the season rolling.
Get a recap of the last week in CCU Athletics and cap it off with an interview with Trey Carter from CCU Football.
Sam and Cari Rosiek discuss various community outreach programs CCU student-athletes and coaches are participating in.
Jeffrey Gunter marked his return to CCU with a big interception vs. Kansas and sat down with The Chant Pod to discuss that and more!
The Chant Pod is back!! New host Sam Weiderhaft talks to Coastal Volleyball standout Anett Nemeth about all things Volleychants!
Coach Chadwell is back to talk football and Fall Camp to get ready for 2020 on the Surf Turf!
Ariana Monroe joins the pod to discuss her unique start to Quarantine, college life as a student-athlete and Wall Fellow, her work as a leader on the team, and hopefully more goals coming in the future as she changes her position on the pitch.
Looking ahead to August, September and beyond as athletics get going here in Conway and on Campus! With 6 programs getting rolling we wanted to preview those seasons and also reached out to our coaches to get some names you should expect to see fill up the scoresheets and your timelines this fall. KD is the assistant athletic director for media relations, so he sees every score, stat, and award come through his office before it gets out to teal nation, and is at nearly every every event somehow - so he knows his chants. Assistant AD for Digital Initiatives Alex Souza throws his two pennies in as well!
Enjoy!
Today the Chant Pod is graced with Trey Carter's presence. We talk academics, living room quat racks, and coin a new term that will be used in the CCU Media offices all fall! A few connection glitches made Trey sound like a zombie but otherwise a great conversation worth your time!
Shaun Docking updates us as he heads into year 23 at the head of the men's soccer program! 2020 will see two new assistant coaches but a strong core coming back on the pitch.
Our first current student-athlete joins the pod! CCU Football D-Lineman Tarron Jackson joins Alex Souza and Kevin Davis and tells us about his time away from CCU during the quarantine, his cinderblocks workout plan, and a bunch of other topics, including his excitement for the 2020 football season! Lock in!
Another wide-ranging podcast with a leader of one of our programs! Coach Paul Hogan joins The Chant Pod to talk quarantine, his strong core coming back to the pitch, and the learning he has done in the wake of the social issues facing our country. Enjoy!
Head Coach Jamey Chadwell joins the pod to hit a myriad of topics and gets us moving towards the fall as voluntary workouts have opened up.
10 Chants from the 2016 National Championship team joined us to relive the journey of that season and postseason and the bonds they formed along the way. There will be a video of this conversation with highlights released tomorrow Friday June 3rd live on Facebook!
Our first episode back with a new name and semi-new format and we welcome Director of Athletics Matt Hogue to go over the timeline and work being done amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic. Matt gives us insight into the processes back in March that led to the cancellation of sports across the world but specific to our situation at CCU, along with the daily work he and University and Conference leaders are doing to prepare for the 2020-21 season moving forward. We hope you can spend some time with us and dive in on this one!
A wild one for you today! We got 3 of the many standout players from the 2010-2014 Men's Soccer era to jump on a zoom call and talk some CCU Footy! Shawn McLaws, Justin Portillo and Pedro Ribeiro covered a ton of topics from this incredible string of seasons. Enjoy!
Brooke Weisbrod has always represented CCU the best she could. As a student-athlete, a Wall Fellow, a professional basketball player and as an analyst and commentator on ESPN. Brooke always had a well-rounded skill set that has benefitted her in every avenue of her career and will only continue to do so. Brooke has given back to CCU with her time and advice on countless occasions and is a Chant forever! Enjoy this conversation spanning her entire career up until this point.
The Regulator Warren G, Warren Gillis, joins us to talk about the back to back trips to the NCAA tournament from 13-14 and 14-15 for the MBB team. This team set the HTC Center ablaze and has some of the most memorable figures in CCU Hoops history. Warren takes us through the progression of a team trying to live up to previous seasons, then finding their own identity. Plus the feeling of cutting down the nets in front of #TealNation!
Today we speak to Sara Nolan of the Women's Lacrosse program. Sara was on the inaugural team in 2013 and has been close with the program ever since. It was great to go through the progress of the team through her eyes. When the Chants are back on the field next spring make sure to come see this team play, they are a blast!
Kiana Quolas was a dynamic 2-way player since the time she stepped on the field in 2012 and is still just as dynamic during interviews! The 2-time pitcher of the year joined us to talk about her freshman year, the 2012 season that saw the Chants win the conference tournament for the first time since 2006 and make it to the NCAA Tournament and really put the program back on the map. Kiana is still coaching at GWU and you can hear the passion for softball is still strong and her passion for the Chants is even stronger.
This week we talk to Malene Hansen, 2-time team conference champ with women's golf, 4 time top-5 finisher at the conference championship and the 2018 Sun Belt individual champion. Malene spoke to use from her home base in Conway as she waits for the Symetra Tour (one step below the LPGA) to get started after the hiatus caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Today we bring you the year that brought CCU MBB back on the map. A great mixture of talent, upperclassmen, young guys, stars and a deep bench. The 05-06 MBB team had Kimbel Arena filled to capacity and more in the second semester of that season, and reignited the excitement on campus for hoops in Conway. We spoke with senior point guard and leader Colin Stevens about this season and so much more, enjoy!
10 Episodes in an we need to take a breath! Here is a quick episode (recorded on our host's walk!) with an update on everything happening in CCU Athletics! We will see you on Thursday for a full episode with Colin Stevens on the 2005-06 MBB Season!
An incredible season deserves an incredible conversation. Today we have Eric Quimby, CCU Men's Soccer alum talking about the magical 2003 season and run to the Sweet 16 the Chants made. This team hosted the first ever NCAA post season game in Conway, had the top GPA in all of Men's Soccer that season, and had the National Player of the Year in Joseph Ngwenya. What a season it was and we had a great time going over all the great moments from that year. Enjoy!
Our first Hall of Famer on the show! Blair came to the Women's Soccer program in 2005 from North Myrtle Beach High and put the conference and region on notice. Her 17 goals her freshman year is still the CCU record and propelled her to become the highest tallying goal scorer in program history which still stands today. We talk that special freshman season but also get into the development of the program while she was on the field and since.
Great insight and candor from Coach Williams during this conversation about this season's women's basketball program. Learn more about their trip to Cuba, her special group of seniors, that epic game vs. Troy and the future of the program.
This week we look at the story of PGM Majors turned MGOLF stars Zack Taylor and Morgan Deneen from their head coach Jim Garren's perspective. We also dive into the mission of men's golf here at CCU and the future of the program. Enjoy!
This week's episode covers the 2013 season of CCU Football with the current Voice of the Chanticleers that has seen nearly every snap played by CCU Football. Joe Cashion was the sideline reporter for this team and every team prior before heading into the booth to take over play-by-play duties. He saw everything up close and personal from this pivotal year in CCU history and takes us through some of the epic matchups and key moments from Coach Joe Moglia's second year in charge of CCU Football.
Part 1 of 2 of the story of 2 PGM (Professional Golf Management) majors walking onto and making a major impact on the CCU Men's Golf team. This was our first episode with 2 guests so we figured it would be best to have 2 golfers who know how to wait their turn. Shout out golf etiquette! Their stories about being under-recruited to champions at the division one level are inspiring. The partnership between PGM and CCU men's golf is strong once again and these two are a big part of that!
Next week we will talk to Coach Garren about his point of view of these two, and the program under his leadership so far!
Enjoy!
Today's guest is Jenna Orner - Jenna was a senior on the 2014 Volleyball team that won the Big South Championship in the HTC Center. It wasn't the first or last Championship in program history, but it was the first for current Head Coach Jozsef Forman and his staff - and the first in a string of 4 straight championships across 2 conferences. This was also a statement win over a Radford team that had swept the chants in the previous year's championship tilt.
Great insight from Jenna on this group of student-athletes and how Coach Forman has influenced her career in coaching.
Episode 3 and we are already switching it up! On Monday's we are going to hit some of the singular student-athletes, performances, moments, and records that need to be talked about at length - one's that may be part of a season we cover, or don't fit the theme of the main episodes on Thursdays.
The first moment I thought of when this new segment came to mind was DJ Williams 51 points vs. Troy this season for CCU Women's Basketball (don't worry, we will be talking about this team in a future episode at length). It was a magical night and one that no one in the building will soon forget. 51 points, vs. the top team in the league at the time, with NO turnovers. The best performance in ALL of College Basketball last year.
We got DJ on the pod on short notice so we thank her for that - her energy jumped through the headset during this convo and I hope you can enjoy as much as I did.
Our first interview episode and it is a doozy - some great stories about the 2008 CCU Baseball team from Joey Haug. Joey takes us through that incredible regional victory, and gives us some perspective and stories on one of the most fun and memorable teams in CCU History.
Welcome to the preview episode of The Chantiyears Podscast - where we talk about the seasons that matter in CCU Athletics with the coaches, student-athletes, fans and support staff that made it happen.
Be on the lookout for the first few episodes in the next week or so as we get our bearings - hopefully this podcast can serve as a small dose of Chanticleer Athletics while we go through this suspension of play - stay safe out there, wash your hands and mind your manners and we will all get through this together!
Hit us on @CoastalCSN on Twitter and we will talk to you soon!