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Shanika Ward

Shanika Ward

Athletic Director and Physical Education Teacher at Fort Service-Learning Magnet Academy (Fort Middle School) in Columbus, Georgia, and host of the No Time Outs Left podcast.

Aug 13, 2026

47:17
What would be your advice?
47:20
You know what? What I usually do is I'll see kids in the hallway and I was like, hey, you need to go out for this and you need to go out for this.
47:26
You know, a lot of times they're confused.
47:28
I never played that before or whatever, whatnot.
47:30
But I think, you know, I've always offered this inspiration to all of the kids.
47:35
You know, if an individual has a sport that they're good at, you know, I pretty much encourage them to continue to play it.
47:42
But if they want to branch out into a different sport as well, you know, there's nothing wrong with being a multi-sport athlete, you know.

9 MINS LATER

56:58
Yes, ma'am.
37:39
Speaking of life, and again, for those who do know you, but there's a bunch of guys and p- women that don't know you, and, uh, uh, if you would in, in an executive summary, take them through, uh, who you are, where you're from, you know, so that you can give them some kinda balance, 'cause if they didn't make plans on watching you at 9:00, maybe of course something that you'll say in your upbringing and as you explain it that might gives them an incentive to wanna watch.
38:02
Yeah.
38:03
I'm just a, a small town gir- town girl from a town, um, back in Milledgeville, Georgia, that is about 35 minutes east of Macon.
38:11
You know, I grew up there, single parent mom, uh, five kids.
38:16
You know, um, I fell in love with the sport of basketball around, like, 8 to 10 years old.
38:21
I gravitated towards it.
38:22
I played in middle school, high school, went to college as well.
40:55
Oh, man.
60:58
And, uh, just share with us exactly what you got going on.
61:01
All right, so I've been working on a, a podcast for the last maybe like, um, consistently, maybe for the last maybe two plus years.
61:10
But it's always been a dream of mine to give something back in a way that, you know, a lot of people don't know much about me here.
61:16
And, you know, most people know so much more about me back home in Milledgeville, Georgia.
61:21
So I came up with this concept.
61:23
I remember just being in so many knockdown, drag out basketball games.
61:28
And this particular championship game, we were down about maybe 16 points in the first quarter, and I was looking at my, my girls, and they was giving me that look of defeat.

7 MINS LATER

68:31
'Cause you definitely have a lot of stories and, and you have been in, in key moments in your life, especially winning championships at the middle school level and, and having an impact on these student athletes.

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