The podcast that investigates what makes coaches and leaders great! Travis takes a deep dive into the specifics of how elite leaders lead their programs or department. Our host is Travis Wyckoff. Travis coached college baseball for 11 years and currently runs Kingdom Coaching, where he partners with leaders to help them discover the strengths that propel them, the constraints that trip them up, and their unique style and voice.
Mitch Barnhart, Athletic Director at the University of Kentucky joins us on this week's podcast. Mitch shares some insights on John Calipari, Pat Summit and Pat Casey.
Casey Blake, Former Los Angeles Dodger and Cleveland Indian, joins us on this week's podcast. Casey talks about what made Joe Torre such a great leader, insight on Don Mattingly, and a behind the scenes look at the challenges of getting traded mid-season.
Kirby Hocutt, Athletic Director at Texas Tech University, joins us on today's podcast. Kirby shares stories about Bill Snyder's attention to detail as well as what makes Tech's mens basketball head coach Chris Beard so special.
Patty Gasso, Head Softball Coach at the University of Oklahoma, joins us on today's podcast. Patty shares her journey from junior college softball player to the head coach at Oklahoma, how she balanced being a wife, mom, and softball coach, and the moment the Lord changed everything in her coaching.
On this leadership moment I want to talk about outside the box thinkers. Those leaders who are innovative, creative, and see things from multiple perspectives. One attribute that I am seeing with high level leaders is this innovative, outside the box mindset.
Josh Broghamer, Video Coordinator/Advance Scout for the Cleveland Cavaliers, joins us on today's podcast. He shares insight into Jason Kidd, how he went from D3 baseball player to an NBA coach, and how technology helped him get there.
Mike Rooney, ESPN college baseball analyst and former college baseball coach, joins us on today's podcast. Mike share his insights and perspective on the landscape in college baseball coaching circles, who are the elite coaches, who are the up and comers, and which programs are poised to make headlines nationally!
Janae Shirley, head softball coach at East Texas Baptist University, joins us on todays podcast. Janae has built the East Texas Baptist softball program to one of the best programs in the country. She shares some ideas on what has helped her grow ETBU softball.
Marco Born, Athletic Director at Lamar University, joins us on today's podcast. Marco shares his unique journey from Germany to Middle Tennessee State to eventually Lamar University. He also shares some great insight into fundraising and relationship building.
Andy Lopez, former head baseball coach and two time national champion, joins us on today's podcast. Andy was the head coach at Cal St. Dominguez Hills, Pepperdine, Florida, and Arizona. He shares insights about some of the great coaches in college baseball as well as what made him successful.
Rob Mullens, athletic director at the University of Oregon, joins us on today's podcast. He shares insights on what makes Chip Kelly, Dana Altman, and others great!
Brent Kemnitz, former long time pitching coach at Wichita State University, joins us on today's podcast. Brent shares what made Gene Stephenson so great and what allowed him to have unparalleled success as a pitching coach. Brent also gets into the strengths of current Shocker head coach and former Cleveland Indians and Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge.
John Moore, head men's basketball at Westmont College, joins us on today's podcast. John has over 30 years of head coaching experience and has won over 600 games! He shares a ton of knowledge and insight that will benefit coaches at any point in their journey.
Tommy McClelland, Athletic Director at Louisiana Tech, joins us on the podcast. Tommy was the youngest Athletic Director in NCAA Division 1 when he was hired at McNeese State in 2008. He has been at La. Tech since 2013.
Occasionally I am going to spend some focused time talking about one topic that has repeatedly come up in my conversations with coaches and AD's. Today's topic is self-awareness, the importance in growing in self-awareness, and three simple steps to grow in this area.
Jimmy Elgas, Head Men's Basketball coach at Henderson State University joins us on the podcast. Jimmy had been a lifelong assistant coach, working with many great coaches, before getting the head coaching job at Henderson State in 2015.
Wes Johnson, pitching coach of the Minnesota Twins, joins us on the podcast today. He was hired by Minnesota in 2018 straight from the University of Arkansas. He shares some great insights about coaches he has been around, including Dave Van Horn (Head baseball coach U of Arkansas) and Rocco Baldelli (Manager Minnesota Twins).
This is a must listen! Orv Salmon joins us on today's podcast. Orv is a former college basketball coach and athletic director. Every coach needs to take one hour and listen to this episode.
Bernard Muir, athletic director at Stanford University joins us on today's podcast. Bernard shares his journey from his playing days at Brown to his stops as an AD at Georgetown, Delaware and his current position at Stanford.
Ryan Ficken, assistant coach of the Minnesota Vikings (special teams), joins us on today's podcast. Ryan has been on the Vikings staff for 12 years and has worked for and with some of the brightest coaches in the NFL.
Bob Bowlsby, commissioner of the Big 12 Conference joins us on today's podcast. Bob shares with us what sets Kirk Ferentz, Jim Harbaugh, & David Shaw apart. He has been around some of the great coaches of our day during his stops at the University of Northern Iowa, U of Iowa, and Stanford University, and he what has made them so successful.
Brandon Curran shares his unique journey from a random night of deciding to go shoot at a playground to a manager at the University of Texas to being the head basketball coach at East Texas Baptist University.
Jeremy Sheetinger from ABCA joins us. 'Sheets' is the College Division Liason for the American Baseball Coaches Association. He talks about the staff he was apart of at the University of Kentucky and what made that staff so special, as well as walks us through his story from little league to his present role at ABCA.
Our guest is Ryan Ivey, athletic director at Stephen F Austin. Ryan has made some great hires and he talks about his hiring process. He also talks about what has made the coaches he has been around so successful.
Bruce Rasmussen has been a mainstay at Creighton for over 20 years. Listen as he masterfully shares insight into what has allowed coaches like Dana Altman to be successful. He also shares some of his hiring practices and insights that have made him one of the most successful and respected AD's in the country!
In this first episode of Coaching DNA Podcast, Dan Fitzgerald joins us. Dan is the Associate Head Baseball Coach at Dallas Baptist University.
