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Dick Beardsley, world - class marathoner and motivational speaker, will address the Carolina Day community today at 1230pm in the upper school. For more information on Mr. Beardsley, please see our post yesterday.

Any questions, please call Steve Henry in the athletic ddepartment.

The CDS community welcomes Dick Beardsley to campus tomorrow at 1230p! Mr. Beardsley is a world-class runner and motivational speaker. His running accomplishments are many, but some of you may recall his famous duel, known as the Duel in the Sun, with Alberto Salazar in the 1982 Boston Marathon.

Mr. Beardsley will address the community on a wide variety of issues ranging from leadership to lifestyle choices. For further information on Mr. Beardsley, please visit his his web-site. Mr. Beardsley’s address will begin at @ 1230p in the Upper School. We’ll post the exact location this afternoon.

Mr. Beardsley’s visit to campus is sponsored in part by the Athletic Leadership Project of Carolina Day School. The Athletic Leadership Project works to develop leadership qualities among our student-athletes that benefit individual, team, and community. For more infomation regarding the Athletic Leadership Project, contact Steve Henry in the athletic department.

Janet Cone, Director of Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will speak to the Carolina Day School Athletic Leadership Project on Tuesday, Feb. 5th, at 1230pm in the Nash Athletic Center. Ms. Cone has a very impressive resume and has been recognized as one of the top female athletic administrators in the country by her peers.

We will post more information regarding her visit on Monday. As always, the CDS community is encouraged to attend. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the department at 274-0757.

Evan Wynn, cyclist extraordinaire, featured in the Asheville Citizen-Times. We’ll post the link as soon as it becomes available on the Citizen-Times web-site.

The Athletic Advisory Group will meet Friday at 1230p in the Lasher Weight Room.

The Leadership Project meets tomorrow at 1230p in the Upper School.

Tomorrow’s Discussion Items:

Leadership Survey; Communicating Effectively with your coach; and Conflict Management.

If you have any questions regarding the Leadership Project, please contact Steve Henry in the athletic department.

Members of the Leadership Project will meet this Friday (Jan.11) at 1230p in the Nash Athletic Center.

The Athletic Leadership Project will meet Thursday, December 13, at 1230pm in the Nash Athletic Center lobby.

Stacey Enos, former collegiate soccer star at UNC-Chapel Hill and a former US Women’s National Team member, and current Director of Athletics and Adventure Sports at Warren Wilson College, spoke to a standing room only group yesterday at CDS. Stacey’s discussion on leadership in athletics was informative and inspiring.

Thanks so much to Stacey and to all the members of the community that attended.