If You Only Knew...with Dr. Debby Stroman
Dr. Debby Stroman has witnessed the intersection of sports and racism her entire life. She's former basketball player and team captain at UVA, UNC coach, board member at the Advancement for Blacks in Sports (ABIS), consultant to former professional athletes through their transitions from athletics to a career, business ownership, and/or the completion of an academic degree, and now a leadership professor in the domains of sport business and racial equity at UNC. On If You Only Knew, Dr. Debby brings on her friends and colleagues in sports to share their inspirational stories and...
Mack Brown, head football coach at UNC, opens up about growing up in the south (and what his parents did when they saw racist behavior), his growth when he started to realize his privilege, the patches the football team put on their jerseys in 2020, and why he’s not afraid to talk about race.
Published 06/01/21
With everything that NC State National Champion Dereck Whittenburg does, it's amazing he has time to sleep. "There's no time to rest. You'll have plenty of time to rest when you go to heaven. But until then, while you on this Earth, you have to serve." Today, Dereck and Dr Debby talk about how it...
Published 05/06/21
John Tobias (ESPN, Lecturer at UNC Charlotte) is an expert in analytics, and as a minority, that’s pretty rare. Today John and Dr Debby talk about John’s career journey, what analytics means to sports, his passion for educating, being the only one in the room, and what we can do to encourage more...
Published 04/29/21