Jesse Balcer has been the Director of Athletics at Division II Chestnut Hill College since 2018. He’s been at the school since 2003 when he started the men’s basketball program and he served as head coach until 2020.In Episode #214 of “1-on-1

Eastern's Dan Pruessner - 'Passion is What Drives This Program'

9 days ago 43m 29s

Dan Pruessner has been the head men's basketball coach at Division III Eastern University in St. David's, Pennsylvania on the Main Line since 2019. In 2022, he led the Eagles to their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance and in 2024 Eastern wo

Jada Pierce – ‘Every Day You’ve Got to Prove Yourself’

16 days ago 59m 28s

Jada Pierce has been the head women’s basketball coach at Niagara University since 2015. The Philadelphia native has raised the program to a new level, leading the Purple Eagles to their first two Division I postseason appearances and first eve

Delaware Women's Ice Hockey's Allison Coomey - 'You Have to Work Together to Win'

Apr 10th, 2024 34m 31s

The first coach in the history of the University of Delaware's women's ice hockey program is Allison Coomey. She will build the program from the ground up as the Blue Hens prepare to begin play during the 2025-26 season. Coomey comes to Newark

Penn Men’s Squash’s Gilly Lane - A Great Day to Win a National Championship

Apr 3rd, 2024 36m 50s

Gilly Lane has been the head men’s squash coach at his alma mater the University of Pennsylvania since March of 2016. On his watch Penn has been one of the nation’s elite programs and this past March, he led the Quakers to their first-ever Pott

Kutztown Football’s Jim Clements – A Foundation of Trust

Mar 27th, 2024 57m 57s

Jim Clements has been the head football coach at Division II Kutztown University since 2014. In his 9th season in 2023, he led the Golden Bears to a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championship and an appearance in the National Semifinal

Widener Football's Mike Barainyak – A Great Teammate

Mar 13th, 2024 42m 58s

Mike Barainyak is the head football coach at Division III Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. The 2023 season was his fifth at the helm of the program and he led the Pride to a 7-4 campaign. His coaching career has also included stops

Heather Long – Winning is Fun

Mar 6th, 2024 29m 17s

Heather Long is a volunteer assistant field hockey coach focusing on goalies at Division III Ursinus College in Collegeville. She also is still playing field hockey at an elite level, as she has earned a spot as a goaltender on the Over 35 Unit

Emily Snowden – Bring Your Best, Leave Better

Feb 28th, 2024 46m 43s

Emily Snowden is the founder and owner of The Goalie Trainer. She works with dozens of field hockey goaltenders from all over the country at different levels of development at her facility in Malvern, PA.In Episode #206 of “1-on-1 with Matt Le

Saint Joseph's University's Don DiJulia – The Heart of Hawk Hill

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 8m

Don DiJulia spent 35 years as the athletic director at Saint Joseph’s University in two separate stints. The first was 1976 to 1981 and the second from 1988 to 2018. He is truly one of the most respected administrators in the history of Philade

Samantha Sayward – Dodgeball is Life

Feb 14th, 2024 30m 7s

Samantha Sayward is the founder and owner of Philly Dodgeball. In just a couple of years she has developed a thriving community in Philadelphia of people bound together by their love of playing dodgeball.In Episode #204 of “1-on-1 with Matt Le

Stockton’s Devin Jefferson – 'I Started Feeling Like Myself Again'

Feb 7th, 2024 42m 12s

Devin Jefferson is the head women’s basketball coach at Division III Stockton University in Galloway, NJ. This is her first collegiate head coaching job. She previously served as an assistant at Vermont and associate head coach at Fairleigh Di

Bishop Eustace’s Sam Tropiano – A Teacher That Coaches

Jan 31st, 2024 38m 57s

Sam Tropiano is the winningest head coach in the history of South Jersey high school baseball with 748 career victories. He has led the program at Bishop Eustace Prep in Pennsauken, New Jersey since 1990 and earned 716 of those victories with t

DelVal's Cory Kieschnick – ‘This Is Where I Want To Be’

Jan 24th, 2024 34m 38s

Cory Kieschnick is the Director of Equestrian Sports at Delaware Valley University and she is also a full professor and chair of the Department of Equine Science and Management. Her program at DelVal is one of the top equestrian programs in the

Wilmington University’s Dan Burke – ‘I Don’t Know What I Would Do Without the Game of Basketball’

Jan 17th, 2024 33m 30s

Dan Burke has been the head men’s basketball coach at Division II Wilmington University in Delaware since 2014. His Wildcats are always in contention in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and his coaching career came after he played bas

Nat Graham – Reconciliation

Jan 10th, 2024 57m 37s

Nat Graham is the Associate Head Men’s Basketball Coach at the University of Pennsylvania. He’s been on staff with the Quakers since 2014 and serving in his current role since 2018. He has also worked on head coach Steve Donahue’s staff when th

Villanova's Joanie Milhous – ‘You Want Them to Love It and Be Happy’

Jan 3rd, 2024 45m 30s

Joanie Milhous will be spending her 30th season as the head coach of Villanova University field hockey in 2024. The Wynnewood, Pennsylvania native has won more than 250 games at the helm of the program and in 2023 her Wildcats advanced to the s

Ed Gruver - The Game That Saved the NHL

Dec 13th, 2023 24m 21s

Ed Gruver is an author whose latest book focuses on the 1976 hockey game between the Flyers and the Soviet Red Army team, The Game That Saved the NHL.In Episode #197 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Gruver to talk about his boo

Kevin Stocker – From the Infield to the Booth

Dec 6th, 2023 53m 46s

Kevin Stocker is a radio analyst for the Phillies, the team that drafted him as a shortstop in the 2nd round back in 1991 out of the University of Washington. He spent the first five years of his eight-year MLB career playing shortstop for the

Neumann’s Mike Hedden – Settling in Behind the Bench

Nov 29th, 2023 33m 16s

Mike Hedden just recently took over as the head men’s ice hockey coach at Division III Neumann University in Aston, PA. This is the first head coaching job and also a homecoming for Hedden, who was a star player for the Knights, leading them to

Leadership on the Diamond – Rowan Baseball’s Mike Dickson

Nov 8th, 2023 36m 36s

Mike Dickson is preparing for his tenth season as the head baseball coach at Division III Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. He led the Profs to the 2021 College World Series and on his watch, Rowan has made a total of six appearances i

Spending More Time in Vegas than Wayne Newton – Legendary Boxing Writer Bernard Fernandez

Nov 1st, 2023 42m 24s

Bernard Fernandez has spent the last several decades as one of America’s foremost boxing writers. Most of his newspaper career was spent at the Philadelphia Daily News and in recent years he has released a boxing anthology, Championship Rounds,

‘Morning Sunrises are Completely Underrated’ – On the Water with Penn’s Wesley Ng

Oct 25th, 2023 48m 49s

Wesley Ng has been the head women’s rowing coach at the University of Pennsylvania since 2015. On his watch, Penn has enjoyed consistent success including qualifying for the NCAA Championship each of the last two years, the first two times the

Arcadia’s Kelsey Koelzer – Inspiring on the Ice

Oct 18th, 2023 41m 41s

Kelsey Koelzer is the head women’s ice hockey coach at Division III Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania and one of the few Black women in the hockey world. She started the Arcadia program from scratch in late 2019 and by the 2022-23 se

Dwayne Jones - Big Man (Back) on Hawk Hill

Oct 11th, 2023 35m 23s

Dwayne Jones was recently hired as an assistant coach for the Saint Joseph's University men's basketball team. This is a homecoming for Jones, who was a standout player on some fantastic Hawks teams as a player - including the 2003-2004 squad t