EIUPanthers Podcast

EIUPanthers Podcast

EIUPanthers Podcast

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EIUPanthers Podcast Jamie Pilson

August 9, 2023
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.
 
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EIUPanthers Podcast Mariah King

March 1, 2023
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 OV...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Dirk Bennett

February 23, 2023
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 Podc...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Tim Pyznarski

October 19, 2022
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 pl...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Jim Nave

September 28, 2022
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...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Marlise Davidson

September 7, 2022
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 run...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Dino Fanti

August 31, 2022

Welcome to this week’s edition of EIUPanthers Podcast (episode 86) as we continue our 2022 EIU Athletic Hall of Fame series this week as we talk with Dino Fanti.  Fanti was a member of three EIU FCS playoff teams earning Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2015 en route to earning first team All-American honors.  Fanti did not follow the professional football route like his teammate an...

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EIUPanthers Podcast Tom Akers

August 25, 2022
This week on EIUPanthers Podcast we start our Hall of Fame series talking over the next couple of weeks with members of the 2022 Eastern Illinois Athletic Hall of Fame.  First up is Tom Akers who will be inducted as a coach following a dominating career leading the Panthers track and field programs.  During his tenure, EIU won 45 Ohio Valley Conference track and field championships between the men’s and women’s programs covering bo...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Johnathan Jordan

August 17, 2022
This week we visit with another of the Panthers new head coaches as EIUPanthers Podcast (Episode 84) sits down with head swimming coach Johnathan Jordan.  Jordan was hired late in the summer and hit the ground running at EIU in early August.  He has a couple of previous head coaching stops and last fall had the unique chance to serve as an Olympic Coach for the team from the Marshall Islands.  Jordan talks about his coaching experi...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Hayden Birdsong

August 11, 2022
Welcome to this week’s episode of EIUPanthers Podcast (No. 83 in our series).  Eastern Illinois pitcher Hayden Birdsong was selected in the sixth round of this year’s Major League Baseball Draft by the San Francisco Giants.  We catch up with Hayden on one of his off days as he is down in Arizona preparing for an abbreviated first season of professional baseball.  He gives us some insight on the draft process, why he chose EIU and w...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Josh Oakley

August 4, 2022
Episode 82 of EIUPanthers Podcast - this week we talk to new Eastern Illinois men’s soccer coach Josh Oakley. Oakley grew up a local kid at nearby Mattoon High School and previously worked as an assistant coach with the Panthers men’s soccer program.  We talk to him about his coaching journey and what has brought him full circle as he gets to coach a program that he knows a little something about.
 
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EIUPanthers Podcast Ryanne Jackson

July 27, 2022
Welcome back to EIUPanthers Podcast as we begin our third season of episodes covering Eastern Illinois Athletics with interviews with current and former coaches, athletes and administrators.  Season three (Episode 81) kicks off with a conversation with former EIU golfer Ryanne Jackson.   Jackson recently competed in the inaugural USGA Adadaptive Open placing second in the women’s field.  She talks about this unique experience and h...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Tyler Laser

April 27, 2022
Episode 80 of EIUPanthers Podcast visits with former Eastern Illinois men’s basketball player Tyler Laser.  Laser played for the Panthers during the late 2000’s and then overcame some miraculous odds to go on and have a successful professional career playing in Europe.  This week we talk to Laser about some of his experiences which during part of his career took him to Eastern Europe along with his current life plan and how that ev...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Ken Wooddell

April 21, 2022
This week we piggyback off of friends at WEIU TV & Radio.  A few weeks ago they had EIU Athletic Hall of Fame member Ken Wooddell on as a guest for their Issues and Attitudes program.  Wooddell was a long time fixture in the radio industry in the Coles County area and served as the Voice of the Panther Football team during the 1980’s and 1990’s.   With their permission, this week’s episode of EIUPanthers Podcast, No. 79, in our ser...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Nathan Aide

April 13, 2022
The Eastern Illinois baseball team is off to the best start in the program’s NCAA Division I history as the Panthers head into mid-April leading the Ohio Valley Conference race with 22 wins.   Part of that success has been with the play of transfer outfielder Nathan Aide along with strong performances by several other Panthers.  Recently Aide accomplished one of the harder feats to do in offensive baseball as he hit for the cycle c...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Hannah Cravens

April 7, 2022
Episode 77 of EIUPanthers Podcast visits with EIU softball player Hannah Cravens.  Cravens played the role of hero in both of the Panthers softball games on Wednesday night (April 6) as she added to her season totals in doubles, home runs and RBI.  She is currently chasing the single season school record in several categories, some of those held by her current teammates.  We talk to Cravens about the good season she is having, what...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Dr. Carole Griggs

March 23, 2022
Episode 76 of EIUPanthers Podcast visits with former Eastern Illinois women’s soccer player Dr. Carole Griggs.  Griggs was a standout player on the pitch for the Panthers in the early days of the program helping EIU win an OVC Tournament Championship while earning All-League honors.  Since graduation she has gone on to create and run a successful consulting business that involves executive coaching for some top companies on the Wes...
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EIUPanthers Podcast Manolo Concepcion

March 16, 2022
In the fall of 2021 Eastern Illinois Athletics announced that it would add the sport of beach volleyball to begin play in the spring of 2022.  Fast forward eight months and the Panthers will play their inaugural NCAA Beach Volleyball competition on March 22 against Missouri Baptist.   Our guest today for episode 75 of EIUPanthers Podcast is EIU associate volleyball head coach Manolo Concepcion who serves as the head coach of the EI...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Women's Basketball Seniors 2022

February 23, 2022
Episode 74 of EIUPanthers Podcast, on this week’s episode we visit with EIU women’s basketball seniors Kira Arthofer and Jordyn Hughes as both prepare to play their final home games for the Panthers this weekend at First Mid Court at Lantz Arena.  Both came into the program four years ago and have played through the ups and downs of dealing with COVID seasons.  Each recalls what it was that brought them to Eastern Illinois, some of...
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EIUPanthers Podcast - Chris Wilkerson

February 16, 2022
Episode 73 of EIUPanthers Podcast as this week we visit with recently hired EIU football coach Chris Wilkerson.  Wilkerson, a former EIU player and assistant coach, talks about his time playing and coaching for the Panthers, some memories of stops he has had along the way and what it is like to follow in the footsteps of one of his coaching mentors as the head coach at Eastern Illinois.
 
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