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But first formal lectures and stuff, succession, like building off of each other, was with KP.

It was an intro to TCM and Ayurveda, I want to say, at Lane Community College.

I love that we have that in common.

For me, I was taking classes with you in Seattle, and I lived five hours from Seattle, so I would drive over, I stayed with a friend, but I'd listen to all these different lectures on CDs on the way over, so I'd listen to five hours of lectures on the way over, various conferences and everything.

So th-they were-- Teaching writing was a really live option for me from the time that I left graduate school.

I had taught at Lane Community College and, and taught freshman composition there while I was going through graduate school to make some extra money, and I really enjoyed it.

Okay, yeah.

Um, and so it sounds like you were-- With your own writing, you mentioned doing these smaller pieces, op-eds, getting to know some editors.

On this episode of the Rising Coaches Podcast, we're joined by Joe White, assistant coach at the University of South Dakota.

White's journey includes playing at Southern Oregon and professionally in Ecuador before transitioning into coaching, with stops at Tacoma CC, Lane CC, Idaho State, and South Dakota, along with head coaching experience at Lane CC.

In this episode, we discuss how head coaches can delegate while developing their assistants, the biggest mistakes young coaches make when trying to advance, and the habits and mindset that help coaches separate themselves.

Welcome back, everybody.

We will see you later on this season.

We'll see you at Lane Community College.

Yeah, for sure.

We'll see you in Spokane.

Thank you very much.

Well, thank you, Thaddeus, for coming on and talking with us.

And now you're on my radar and I'll keep an eye on you throughout the season and also at the state meet at Lane Community College later on in November.

Let's talk to our friend Steve Sparks as he gives a little recap of the Jim Danner Championship.

But in large part, you know, there are new things that have emerged for me over time that have become priorities, but more than those changing priorities, I would say a sense of really understanding the, the data, not a- um, abstractly or intellectually, but like the, the lived experiences and the, and how you draw inferences between things.

A good friend of mine, Arturo Zavala, who was the, the head of, um, academic advising and student services at the College of Design at, at Oregon, he now works at Lane Community College as their, um, student services dean.

He showed me practically what it means for how you behave doing student services work and who walks through the door to get those services and what it means in terms of concrete outcomes for students.

And that was a kind of, like, really tangible analysis of How does our behav-- how do, how do our attitudes translate into behaviors? How do our behaviors translate into opportunities for others? How do those opportunities for others translate into outcomes for them? It was a real game changer for me in terms of thinking about the structural analysis of spending my time on X project versus Y project, and then, um, being able to read out of those outcomes, okay, what's the valuable data and what does it mean in terms of are we achieving our mission? Are we, are we living the values that we wanna live? And I've carried that a lot with me, and that's continued to evolve over time as I've learned more about the realities of, you know, injustice around race and class and sexuality and gender over time.

Did I really want to just compete? Or did I feel like I had something to contribute to the sport? And so one of my degrees is as a fitness technician and also a personal trainer.

And during my years at Lane Community College here in Eugene, Oregon, I had the honor of starting and organizing some of the largest cross-country meets in the nation.

This kind of gave the motivation to expand into ultra running in my later years and even give some thought into organizing ultra marathons.

People enjoy these races because those of you who are familiar with Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, is just on the outside of Eugene.

And so there's a lot of natural environment there that's undisturbed.

Runners who came across the state as well as the nation enjoyed what is called the Northwest Cross Country Classic.