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Welcome as we kick of our third season of EIU Panthers Podcast visiting with with former EIU football player Jamie Pilson who has gone on to be a successful businessman in the local community.  He talks about the experience of playing for former head coach Bob Spoo along with a couple of new initiatives taking place surrounding the EIU Football Program with the Panther Football Players Association and Panther Football Champions.

 

Our spring season of EIUPanthers Podcast continues as this week we visit with former Eastern Illinois women’s basketball player Mariah King.   We talk to King about her career playing for the Panthers, touch on her playing career professionally overseas and discuss the Panthers success this season as she is in her first season as an assistant coach on the team.  The women are set to play as the No. 2 seed in this week’s upcoming OVC Basketball Tournament in Evansville.  (Episode 91)

 

We start up the spring segments of our EIUPanthers Podcast series as we visit with recently hired EIU women’s soccer head coach Dirk Bennett.  Bennett discusses his long relationship with both the local area, Eastern Illinois and Panther soccer as he embarks on his first head coaching role at the collegiate level.   Along we talk a little soccer and some of the styles of play that intrigue him.  Enjoy Episode 90 of EIUPanthers Podcast

 

Welcome back to our latest episode of EIUpanthers Podcast (No. 89).  Eastern Illinois baseball has had three players selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft most recently with the selection of Trey Sweeney in 2021 by the New York Yankees.  Tim Pyznarski was the first of those three Panthers selected when the Oakland A’s tabbed him with the 15th pick of the 1981 MLB Draft.  He joins us to talk about is time playing at EIU, his path in professional baseball that included a stint in the Big Leagues with the San Diego Padres and what life after baseball has held for him.

 

This week in our return to the EIUPanthers Podcast series we sit down with Eastern Illinois Head Athletic Trainer Jim Nave. Nave has been in the athletic training business for more than 20 years and discusses what first got him into the profession and what things he has seen evolve over the past two decades.  In addition he talks about how he has built his athletic training staff here at EIU and how his side hobbies of playing in a band and fishing give him a good balanced approach to his job.   (Episode 88)

Our Eastern Illinois Athletics Hall of Fame series continues this week on EIUPanthers Podcast (Episode 87) with Marlise Davidson.  Davidson was a three-sport athlete at Eastern Illinois which is a unique feat in these modern times when athletes excelling at just one sport is hard enough.  Davidson was a standout in the pool as a sprint swimmer, a member of the EIU women’s rugby team playing in a unique event and middle distance runner on the track team helping EIU secure an Ohio Valley Conference Championship.  She talks about all those experiences and her current job in the medical profession.