Speakers

At the Raleigh Sports Club, we bring our members a wide and very impressive variety of speakers to our weekly meetings.  On any given week, you could hear from the head coach of a NCAA champion basketball team, a member of baseball’s Hall of Fame, or the receiver who made the winning catch in last week’s game.

Here’s just a small sampling of some of the great sports figures that have spoken at the Raleigh Sports Club:

• Chuck Amato – Head football coach at NC State
• Elliott Avent – Head baseball coach at NC State
• Vic Bubas – Former Duke University men’s basketball coach
• Bill Cowher – Pittsburgh Steeler head coach and former NC State football standout
• Bobby Cremmins – Former Georgia Tech. and Appalachian State Basketball Coach
• John Bunting – Head football coach at UNC
• Charles “Lefty” Driesell – Head men’s basketball coach at Georgia State, formerly at Maryland and Davidson
• Lee Fowler – Athletics Director at NC State
• Carl Franks – Head football coach at Duke University
• Roman Gabriel – Former NC State and NFL football great
• Pete Gillen – University of Virginia men’s head basketball coach
• Dave Glenn – Editor of ACC Area Sports Journal
• Gail Goestenkors – Head women’s basketball coach at Duke University
• Adam Gold – Sports talk show host, WRBZ 850 The Buzz Otto Graham – Former NFL all time great
• Jim Grobe – Head football coach at Wake Forest University
• Sylvia Hatchell – Head women’s basketball coach at UNC
• Lou Holtz – Head football coach at the University of South Carolina
• Jim “Catfish” Hunter – North Carolina native and baseball Hall of Famer
• Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice – Former UNC and NFL football great
• Chuck Kaiton – Voice of the Carolina Hurricanes
• Mike Krzyzewski – Head men’s basketball coach at Duke University
• Meadowlark Lemon – Former Harlem Globetrotter
• Abe Lemons – Former basketball coach at Oklahoma City University and the University of Texas
• Steve Logan – Head football coach at East Carolina University
• Joe Louis – Former world heavyweight champion
• Rollie Masimeno – Former men’s basketball coach at Villanova, UNLV and Cleveland State
• Frank McGuire – Former head basketball coach at USC and UNC
• Jack McKeon – Former manager for the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics
• Bones McKinney – Former head basketball coach at Wake Forest
• Stan Musial – Three time NL MVP with the St. Louis Cardinals and Hall of Famer
• Byron Nelson – All–time golf great
• Dave Odom – Head basketball coach at University of South Carolina, former coach at Wake Forest University
• Jesse Owens – US Olympic track and field hero
• Billy Packer – CBS basketball commentator and former Wake Forest basketball great
• Satchel Page – Former Negro League great and member of baseball’s Hall of Fame
• Benny Parsons – NASCAR great
• Digger Phelps – Former basketball coach at Notre Dame University
• Skip Prosser – Head men’s basketball coach at Wake Forest University
• Brooks Robinson – Former Baltimore Oriole great and Hall of Famer
• Bobby Ross – Former college and NFL head football coach
• Herb Sendek – Head men’s basketball coach at North Carolina State University
• Enos Slaughter – Baseball Hall of Famer
• Dean Smith – Former head men’s basketball coach at UNC
• James “Bonecrusher” Smith – Former world heavyweight champion George Steinbrenner – Owner of the New York Yankees
• David Thompson – Former NC State and NBA basketball allstar
• Bob Uecker – Milwaukee Brewer commentator and former major league player.
• Jim Valvano – Former head men’s basketball coach at NC State University
• Dick Vitale – ESPN basketball analyst and former head coach of the Detroit Pistons
• Dr. Leroy Walker – Former President of the US Olympic Committee
• Earl Weaver – Former Baltimore Orioles manager
• Ted Williams – Former Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer
• Kay Yow – Women’s head basketball coach at NC State University