Скачать или смотреть Liberty U: Kirk Handy Zoom Interview 10/26/2022

Discussion with Liberty U Club Sports Director and head hockey coach Kirk Handy.

Start – Where K Handy is from and path to LU
2:30 Origins of LU Club Hockey
2:28 How rink came to campus after playing in Roanoke
5:00 Making LU ACHA Hockey a product that sells on campus
6:45 Why intercollegiate club sports needed to be handled more seriously by university (liability / safety) and move away from student-run unsupervised
8:15 Creating a more formalized structure for intercollegiate club sports that looks like NAIA
9:10 LU made a conscious decision to have all club sports NOT be sport that existed at the NCAA level, no duplicating sports at NCAA AND intercollegiate club sports level
10:15 Hockey is the only sport NCAA or Intercollegiate Club that has more than one team bc in the beginning they were trying to fill the rink
10:40 Club sports “showing value to the university” especially for recruitment and need institutional backing for continuity
12:09 How many sports does LU Have? 20 NCAA DI sports, 44 Club Sport Teams (5 of which are hockey M&W), 550 NCAA Athletes, 715 Club Sports athletes (paying tuition)
12:50 8 Pillars of Clubs Sports to show value to the University
19:10 Vendors being used
22:30 Are Club sports coaches paid, how are they hired?
30:40 Most LU Club teams have their own dedicated facility – rink, wrestling center, gymnastic center, skiing hill, crew lake, shooting sports range
32:35 Compliance with Title IX in (non-NCAA) intercollegiate club sports
36:40 LU Club Sports on ESPNU and ESPN3 and Flames Network, licensing
41:00 Sports and departments knowing what they are
42:40 NCAA DIII, NAIA and Intercollegiate Club programs competing for talent
47:00 What does NIL mean for non-NCAA intercollegiate club sports?
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