Athletics Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Scott and Sydney review the ODAC baseball semifinals and the track & field results from the previous weekend and look ahead to the Championship series for baseball.
The Senior Award winners were announced at the first-ever Student-Athlete Cookout in addition to the women's lacrosse IWLCA All-Region teams.
Scott and Sydney sit down with head field hockey coach and Senior Women's Administrator, Ashley Smeltzer-Kraft, about her season, playing a traditioally fall sport in the spring and the individual awards her women earned during the post-season.
The three talk about Junior Kelsey Jones, who was named ODAC Player of the Year, and Rookie of the Year Farren Winter First year student-athletes Cassidy Morrison, and Kylee Tuebner rounded out the All-ODAC honors.
Jones and senior goalie Issabella Morande were named All-Tornament with All-State awards coming out early summer.
Scott and Sydney review the ODAC baseball quarterfinals and preview the semifinal series, the upcoming track & field slates and the remaining all-conference awards.
Scott and Sydney return to the podcast after a busy spring. The two review a few seasons and recount the ODAC and all-state accolades that have been announced through Thursday, May 6.
Coach Moyer joins the pod to tell us how her first season at the helm of the Shenandoah softball program was including defeating No.1 Virginia Wesleyan on their senior day, the final double header of the regular season
Men's Lacrosse Head Coach Tim Marshall joins Scott and Sydney on today's show to talk about the upcoming season.
Coach Marshall and his squad are the first spring sport to open up competition with an away game at William Peace on Sunday, February 14.
Scott and Sydney preview some upcoming contests for the Hornets and discus the @SUHornetsRED Team social media campaign for Black History Month and the department's Meet the Coaches video releases.
Dr. Kerby Hatter '12 & '15, a Shenandoah University Women's Basketball alumna, is our guest this week.
Hatter played four years of basketball and served as an assistant coach while enrolled in Shenandoah's Doctorate of Pharmacy program.
Scott and Kerby discus how her time as a Hornet helped her excel in her field and how those skills translate to running an out-patient pharmacy and the intersection of sports and medicine as she serves as the pharmacist for the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball franchise.
Jet Hayes '22 and Matt McIntosh '23 interview senior goalie, Izzy Morande, of the field hockey team.
Izzy, from Gloucester, Virginia, is a criminal justice major at Shenandoah.
The three talk about her fall senior day, crime shows, all things New York, and Jet and Matt come up with some creative nicknames for the last line of defense.
Assistant Women's Lacrosse Coach Taylor Paige and captain Ashley Grimes '22 join the podcast this week to talk about their experiences participating in the "Future Leaders of the Game: IWLCA Students of Color Coaching Symposium".
Coach Paige served as a mentor and facilitator for the symposium while Ashley Grimes participated. The symposium featured a diverse group of presenters including BIPOC coaches and administrators tied to lacrosse with the purpose of exposing student-athletes of color to the lacrosse coaching profession and allow social and networking opportunities to the future leaders of lacrosse.
Ashley Grimes, a third-year lacrosse student-athlete (with sophomore eligibility due to COVID-19 athletic waivers) discussed her history with lacrosse and what it has been like for Shenandoah student-athletes to navigate the current landscape and how covid-19 protocols have limited the team's ability to bond with freshman to help them adjust to college and how they have adapted to the current situation.
In departmental news, The Old Dominion Athletic Conference announced that indoor sports will not allow spectators during the 20-21 spring semester.
Our streaming services have been upgraded to accommodate the limitations of fans. Streaming links can still be found attached to every game in the schedules but can also be found at www.suhornets.com/live.
Avery White, a men's basketball senior joins the podcast to talk all things basketball with Jet Hayes and Matt McIntosh.
The three discus MJ or Lebron, favorite movies, music and hidden talents.
White from Woodbridge, Virginia and walked-on to the men's team who has evolved into a consistent starting role. He is a force to be reckoned with on the defensive end and gets after the boards.
Assistant Athletics Director for Student Success, Inclusion, and Equity, DeShon Foxx is this week's special guest. Foxx entered his role with Shenandoah on January 4. Get to know DeShon, his vision for the Shenandoah community, and his background that what led him to Winchester, Virginia (0:33)
Department updates: Men's and women's basketball, men's wrestling and the track & field program have all returned to campus and have entered into the testing protocol to start practicing (33:40)
Hornet History: Shenandoah celebrated some anniversaries this week, hiring head coaches Scott Yoder and Zack MacDougall. Head men's basketball coach, Adam Walsh celebrated 100 career wins this time last year and former hoops standout Jeremiah Lawrence '08 inked a professional deal with Landsberg of the German Regionalliga.
Madison Hoilman, a senior from the women's tennis team, joins the podcast for the first of the 2021! Jet Hayes and Matt McIntosh get to know Madison and hear about her experience at Shenandoah and the goals she has to impact campus and her future on and off the court.
Madison, from Springfield, Va., transferred into Shenandoah from ODAC rival, Bridgewater College, started her tennis career and experienced changing her major all within her first two years at SU. She is going into her third season with the squad after losing out the rest of the spring 2020 season due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
In between sets on the tennis court, Hoilman is a member of the Sports Business Association, both cheerleading teams at Shenandoah (competition and game day), and a member of Shenandoah's RED Team.