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The surge in women's sports & getting to know a local champion
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I took some time to talk to a local coach who just signed an extension with their school and got their impression of the many changes. Plus, summer staple motorsports! This morning, towards the end of the year, with their regular season, and Kentucky is home to a two-time reigning series champion. Spend a few minutes with this driver and find out what he's been up to. It's all about Kentucky, it's all about sports, and it's time to focus. Right here on Kentucky Focus. Welcome to Kentucky Focus on the Kentucky News Network, the show that looks at issues affecting the Commonwealth and its citizens. We cover state politics and history, human interest stories, sports, and even entertainment. It's Kentucky Focus on KNN. Let's take it a while, but leave a little doubt that in 2024, women's basketball is a force to be reckoned with. At the NCAA Women's Tournament this year, the final game between South Carolina and Iowa averaged nearly 18.7 million viewers peeking at 24 million on a combined ESPN ABC telecast. According to ESPN, that marked just the first time a woman's final out drew the man. Joining us is for your letter winner at Eastern Kentucky, who left as a leading rebounder in second leading score. She's a Sacred Heart alum, and they know a thing or two about hoops there, and was the head coach at Florida Atlantic before she earned a conference title in an NCAA tournament birth. She's now entering her 13th season at the helm of the Bellarmine Knights. We're of course talking about Chancellor Dugan. Greetings, coach. Thanks for taking time to talk to us. God, thank you so much for having me. Just longtime fan, you know, listen to your lot. Well, thanks for having me. Oh, that means so much, coach. Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. Yeah, I just, you know, my wife and daughter are Bellarmine grads. We love Bellarmine. We love doing things at Bellarmine and being a part of that program. And so it's an honor for me to talk to you for sure. And, coach, I got to ask you, you've seen plenty of highs and lows in your career. After taking Florida Atlantic to the tournament, you arrive at D2 Bellarmine. And your first season, you'll lead them to a winning season after two straight losing seasons. Now, just three years later, you go 24 and four. You get a top 20 ranking heading into the tournament. Then comes the adjustment to D1 down the road. What has this ride been like for you, coach? Yeah, that, that ride, you know, one of the championship here, you know, division two, you know, was, you know, G.O.V.C. championship was really, was really awesome, you know, and, but, you know, to make the leap to go to division one, and then do it, it's hard enough, you know, it's like going, and I tell everybody all the time, it's like, you know, playing eighth grade basketball, and now you're going to play college basketball, you know, it's that big of a leap. And so, but then do it during the pandemic. Yeah. That was, that was something else. So, you know, I tell the girls, you know, that we're here, you know, the women on my team that we're here, you know, they set that foundation. They had to go through so much, and so, you know, it was so hard, and just to navigate, you know, through that, much less, try to get, you know, wins and wins. Yeah. So, you know, it was, they played, they gave me everything they had, and they played as hard as they could. And, and, you know, I've got, you know, some lifelong relationship with those kids, you know, on, on that, on those teams. And, you know, they, they just set up the foundation for where we are right now. And, you know, I'm looking forward to what we can do moving forward in this league and being able to, you know, go to the tournament, you know, and that's, that's a goal down the road. And, you know, we want to be able to, to be able to do that. So, looking forward to it. Well, we're talking with coach Chancellor Dugan, women's basketball coach and Bellarmine University just signed an extension to going to be around for a bit longer, which I think we're all happy to see. Coach, really excited about it too. I was going to ask you, how did, how did that make you feel when the university said, hey, let's, let's extend you out, coach. Let's keep you here for a while. You know, coming off, you know, a, a 10 win season, you know, and it's the most we've ever had, you know, in, in division one, coming off a, of a season where, you know, you think that you're going to have, you know, a leading scorer leading rebounder, you know, a son freshman of the year back, but, you know, she's red-searching. So, you know, we had to really pivot and, and put in the offense and defense that I'm normally not, you know, I normally not do. So, you know, we had to, in the girl, the kids bought in, they did everything we wanted them to do. And we ended up winning more games than we ever have. So, you know, that was, that was really something that, you know, was very special, you know, to us, you know, in the trajectory of where we are going is going up. I'm glad you're talking about that, Coach, because I wanted to talk to you about your recruiting. You've been hitting the recruiting trail pretty hard, and bringing home some local talent, like former Sacred Heart All-State Selection, Erin Taller, she began her post-valkyrie error at UK. Now, she's coming back home. How big of a factor is she going to be this year? She's going to be huge for us. I mean, you know, Erin, she's such a great kid too. I mean, she's, she's doing everything that we want her to do. She's, she's playing so hard right now and doing, you know, doing great. You know, we're, we're not really, you know, doing a lot this summer. We're shooting a lot. We're playing some three on three and, and, you know, just really getting to know each other, you know, because we had four returners off last year's squad. So, we've got eight new ones coming in. And, you know, it's just, we've got, you know, I'm picking up a kid, you know, tonight at the airport, you know, from, from Serbia. And then we got a kid from Egypt coming in at the, uh, at the middle of August. So, you know, we're, we're still, you know, getting, getting to know each other. And that's, you know, really kind of where, uh, we're, what we're doing right now in the summer. And I want to talk about some of that local talent too, again, coach that, that you're bringing in. And you went to Bullitt East and got former charge Anna Rogers. She's a proud member of the Bullitt East 1000 Club. How big is that to keep some of this local talent at home? You know, I think it's big, you know, Anna has, has come in and, you know, she's exceeded all of the coaching staff, you know, because she was hurt last year, you know, and, and, you know, probably didn't get the looks, you know, that she deserved. Um, but, you know, we're, we're very happy that she's on a team and, you know, just, uh, you know, she's probably going to be pushing, you know, for, for some minutes. So we're, you know, I think, I think everybody on the team right now is just really competitive and, you know, that the how, how we're practicing right now, uh, is, is really, uh, pleasing to me and to my staff because, you know, they're, they're competing every single day and every single, you know, even though we're just shooting and doing that, they're competing in their shooting events, you know, and just, you know, looking down, or they got 20. Well, we need to get more than that, you know, so, uh, it's, it's really nice. Talking with Chancellor, Chancellor Dugan head women's basketball coach at Bellarmine University on the heels of her signing and extension going to be around for a bit as they're on the upswing there at Bellarmine and coach, you mentioned the player from Serbia, I assume you were talking about Mina Milosevic. Is that right? Yes. Yeah. Okay. I was, yeah, I was just reading about her. How big of an impact is she going to make for you this year? She's going to make a huge impact, you know, she was recruited out of the two years at a, at a, at school up in Maine. And, uh, you know, she was highly recruited out of there, but really chose said that she was not going to play, that she was going to go pro back home and, uh, just really late got, you know, thinking about it. And she's like, no, I think I want to play. So, you know, we were very, very fortunate to, uh, come in, swoop in and get her. Uh, so we're, we're really excited about her at six, too. She's going to bring a little height to you too, right? She's got some heights. She can shoot. She can take it out to dribble. Yeah. Um, you know, she can, she can post up. So, you know, she's, she's really versatile in, in what we want to do. Coach, that will fit our style. Very nice. Coach Chancellor Dugan talking with us, head women's basketball coach at Bellarmine University. Coach, let's talk about some things facing women's basketball right now. Let's start off from the obvious. As we mentioned in the open, the ratings were off the chain for the women's national championship game. Pretty much all year for women's basketball. What is driving the surge, not only in women's sports, do you think, but women's basketball and women's sports? I think it's you talking about it. I think it's the, you know, everybody picking up on it. You know, I've always said in my, you know, 30 plus years of coaching, I said, if you will give us the time that you give the men's basketball, you know, on the front page of the paper, on the front headlines, every, every, you know, radio show talking about it, every ESPN show talking about it, if you'll give us that time and talk about us like you do men's basketball, you will see the numbers come to us. And I think you've seen it. I think that, you know, that you have seen what can happen when you look at our game, because our game is good. Our game is exciting. Yeah, there's not many that can dunk, but there's some that can dunk out there. But, you know, I think that, you know, basketball, loyalists and purists really want to come see like what we can do, how we move the ball, you know, how we suit the basketball. And, you know, I think that it's exciting brand of basketball that we play. And I think in large part too, it's players like, and I hate that you lost her this year, that of course, Gracie Merkel, because she went, when she was in there and in there as a freshman, she was a dynamic player and fun to, I mean, she got after it. She scrapped as hard as any of the, any of the fellas I've seen. And, and I think you see that across the board and women's basketballs, we've seen in the WNBA. I mean, look how hard they go in the WNBA. That's, to me, that's basketball. Yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, if you watched, if, you know, you watched the WNBA All Stars versus the USA team, I mean, that is indicative of, yeah, where we are right now. Those young players are pushing so hard against Tarazi, you know, and, and, you know, all those girls that have been there, done that, you know, I mean, it's, it's incredible, you know, just the amount of talent. And, and I think that, you know, the WNBA sees that because they're like, okay, we need to expand, you know, and so they're, you know, in 20, 26, you know, two more teams are coming in. Yep. You know, and that's just, is going to open up, you know, such a level of competitiveness and opportunities, you know, for these college players, because, you know, you saw even the first round kids, first round picks in the WNBA didn't get picked up, you know, on a team. Right. Right. So, well, and I think Geno Ariema said it best, too, when he was talking about this, and he thinks one of the mainstays for women's college basketball, at least for now, is that the, the, the ladies stick around at the same school for a while. You're not seeing this in and out of the portal the way it, the way it is with the men. And I hope it stays that way. Because, right? Because then you can develop some, some sort of following with the players. And, and I think, coach, that's what, that's why I love Bellarmine Athletics so much, because, as we mentioned, it is such a homegrown, organic product. And, and there's talent in our backyard. That's right here. And we saw that when Gracie Merkel was at Bellarmine. And when you keep that talent at home, people get excited. Look at TBT. I mean, you know, you got, you know, people have seen, you know, and they want to come back. Right. Right. And see it, you know, whether it be a university, Kentucky, where it be, you know, Bell, whether it be at Bellarmine. Yeah. I mean, you know, those guys that played, you know, the TBT, everybody came out to watch them and they wanted to see them, you know, and that's why, you know, it's so great to have like Ashley Harris on our team. Yeah. You know, right from Sacred Heart, you know, have Hope Savori on our team from Mercy. You know, I mean, those kids right there, everybody, when we got hope back here, everybody was like, Oh my God, we got hope coming back, you know. And, I mean, just her family alone is like a, a seating section, you know, and freedom all. So, we know that right. It would seem to your point, we know the Savori's because we got to say Martha. So we know the Savori family's from over at St. Martha when my daughter went to school there. And when you keep these products at home, it gives that community bond and they're good players. And that's why I think Bellarmine is so good for athletics in this town and what you're doing. Again, we're talking with coach Chancellor Dugan and we're talking Bellarmine women's basketball in the state of women's athletics in general, which are enjoying just some banner times right now. And coach, I do want to ask you, and I'll, how has it changed the game from a coaching standpoint? Oh, like Savori. Right. That's just, you know, I mean, you know, I've gone through and seen everything, you know. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought that the NCAA would have given so much autonomy to, because it's like the Wild Wild West. Yeah. I mean, the rules change and update daily to that thing, you know. And it's just, it's amazing that, you know, that is out there and that is a vehicle for them. I mean, kudos to, you know, the student athletes, you know. But, you know, I would, I would have liked to have seen a little bit more control on that, you know, but when they rolled that out, and I think the NCAA is probably thinking that same thing that they should have had more control over it because we're trying to pull it back a little bit. Yeah. But once that cats out of the bag, I don't know how you can put it back in. That's, that was going to be my next question for you. Coach, do you see any changes coming to that? Or is it just going to be something coaches are going to have to adapt to? I mean, I think it's just, you know, we're adapting to it. I mean, you know, we have, we have initiative here, you know, going at, for women's basketball, at Bellarmine, and, you know, and, and so, you know, we are, we're not going to be behind in that, you know, we are going to be on the forefront of that. And, you know, so we just want to make sure that, you know, we're doing it the right way. We're, we're, you know, having conversations with compliance, you know, and making sure that we are doing it the correct way. And, but, but we know that to attract, you know, the players to be able to compete at the division one and go to the instead of like in the Atlantic Sun conference, we're going to have to have some money to be able to offer these kids. Right. Chancellor Dugan's talking with us spending a few minutes with the Bellarmine women's basketball coach over what's going to be an exciting season for Bellarmine in the A-Sun conference again this year. And coach, after making it into the A-Sun tournament, what do you expect out of the league this year? You know, I expect a very competitive league, you know, obviously, you know, Florida Gulf Coast is up there, you know, and that's, that's everybody, that's who everybody's chasing. And, and I think we're, we're closing in on them. And I think that, you know, with the recruits we have and with the trainers we have, that we can make a push to be up there, you know, so I'm not going to put a number on and or anything like that. But I think that we can really be in the mix of, of competing for the, for the league title, you know, and that's, that's something that, you know, I've not been able to say, you know, in a very long time. So I'm very excited to be able to say that. Well said coach, coach Chancellor Dugan, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be an exciting season. Cannot wait to get out to Freedom Hall coach. Thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us. We really appreciate you. Scott, thank you so much and go Knights. Thank you again to Bellman women's basketball coach, Chancellor Dugan, who will join first-year Kentucky head coach Kenny Brooks, UofL head coach, Jeff Walls, western Kentucky's Greg Collins, eastern Kentucky's Greg Todd, more head state head coach Kayla Petrie and entering your eighth season, Murray State's Rochelle Turner, who won't represent women's college basketball right here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Coming up, he's a two-time and writing NASCAR series champion, and he's from right here in the Commonwealth. I'm Scott Fitzgerald, we'll take some time, talk some motorsports on this special sports edition of Kentucky Focus. Out here in the middle of these acres, it can feel like you're the only person on earth. That's how it feels when you're struggling with your mental health, but you don't have to feel alone. Find more information at loveyourmindtoday.org, brought to you by the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council. Let's shift now into motorsport, shall we? At 27 years old and not even 10 years removed from his days down in Dixie Highway, Holy Cross High School, Ben Rhodes is already a two-time NASCAR champion, that in the Craftsman Truck Series, and he's spending a few minutes with us as he prepares for the regular season finale. Coming up on August 10th at Richmond Speedway, that in the clean harbors 250. Greetings Ben, thanks for taking a few minutes to drop by. Hey Scott, yeah, thanks for having me. It's great to talk to you again. We'll get to the season in just a bit, brother, but it's been a while since we last talked. How does it feel to call yourself a two-time Craftsman Truck Series champion and to be just the fifth-person series history to pull that off? So it's funny, when you put it that way, it feels great, but in my everyday life, my personality is such where I don't even really think about it or consider that it's happened. I can tell you actually, this season has been kind of weird. You know, we had such a high note that we ended on in 2023 with the championship, and then this season's been extraordinarily tough for us. So day-to-day life has been stressful in the sense that we're trying to find some speed, get back to where our program should be. So those championships right now don't mean much to me. I'm just trying to go fast again and put myself in contention to collect another. I understand again, we're talking with Ben Rhodes on the Craftsman Truck Series. Ben, as we mentioned, jump into 2024. You switch crew chiefs before Darlington. You split from Rich Lucius, who won you that championship last year to Doug Randolph. You have your best finish so far, finishing third at the Lady in Black. You pick up another top five-inch Charlotte, followed by, well, two top tens at worldwide in Nashville. But the last couple races haven't been so kind. Where do you think the disconnect is? Yeah, the races have been up and down, not even just the past five races with Doug, but just the season as a whole has been really up and down. To me, the disconnect comes on development. As the series has developed and kind of found ways to find speed with a lack of practice. If you remember ever since COVID, we've really never had any practice. It's just been 10, 15-minute sessions at each racetrack we go to to just make sure that nothing's falling off the racetrack, essentially. You can't really do anything to tune your truck in in those 10 minutes. So for us, it's coming down to how can we use the tools available to try to develop and find speed, but still not be off when we show up with only 10 minutes of practice. So that's kind of the million-dollar question. A couple teams have kind of started to figure it out. Others haven't. I would say we're one of the teams that are still working on that. My teammate, Tom Majeski, his crew chief, Joe Sheer, I'd say they have started to figure that out, obviously, with their win last weekend at IRP. So we're kind of in a development stage right here. And I wish I had a good answer for you, but it's going to take a little bit more time, unfortunately. And we're talking to our own Ben Rhodes, our hometown hero, as he's the two-time and reigning Craftsman Truck Series champion, as that season comes down to its final regular season race, August 10th in Richmond, and Ben, your former teammate, Christian Ekis. Well, he's having a bit of a run. You two have a little bit of a history, too, going back to Texas in 2020. Of course, it was only fitting that, you know, last year, you won the series and he won the series finale race, and now he's moved on to BMR racing. Is that competition vibe still around between you two? He's gone there. He's working with her chiefs, whose name is Charles, and they've really hit it off. They've found their stride, but Christian has been kind of like a satellite teammate to me in many ways ever since he's left or sport racing. Obviously, we had a rough start with one another in 2020, but since then, I'd say that we'd become good friends and we always find a way to get together and talk at the racetracks. He's certainly had a really good season going right now and is very deserving to be in the final four at Phoenix. But the competition around Thor sport racing is kind of such that we're all, except for the '98 running in a particular way. So when you're all kind of not running as well as you want to, you find a way to really work together and open one another out. Usually when everybody's having great success and everybody, let's say, is winning races, it kind of turns into a free-for-all, like every man for themselves, right? That's kind of human nature at race teams. But whenever you're all collectively not running as well as you'd like to, it's amazing how quickly everyone will come together to get it resolved. And that's a good thing, right? That's a good culture to have. And speaking of that, have you had a chance to sit down and watch the NASCAR Netflix documentary yet? No, no, I've got two under two right now, so my springtime has spent changing diapers, listening to screaming. If one's not screaming, the other one is. How is Ben over there? Because again, that was another question I was going to ask you later, but since we're there, how is family life treating you now? How hard is that with your life on the road and all the, like this, the media engagements you have to do when it comes with being a NASCAR champion? Yeah, it's weird, right? Like, I'm a young dad, I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out. I'm sure I never will, but you know, there's, you just have to do it to get into it, right? Like you have to become a father to really understand what it's like. I remember when I was a kid, my dad would say, wait till you're older, you have kids, you don't understand yet. And I truly didn't. And now I'm starting to kind of understand where he was coming from with everything. It makes you appreciate your own parents, but life is the life tough around the house. Somebody's always screaming. We're up a lot during the night. And I know to get better with time, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's been the biggest blessing in my life by far. You know, that's one of the things that, and I ask you that. And that's one of the things they addressed in that documentary in, in the NASCAR Netflix is, you know, drivers that have young families, because a lot of you do, you see them at the tracks in the pre race. And you know, trying to find that sleep before you have a big race day, that could be difficult at times, can it not? It can. For me, I've kind of, I maybe I'm weirder. Maybe I'm a little strange compared to other people in racing, but I really put myself into a bubble before races. I really kind of retreat and focus and kind of pull away from anything that's not racing oriented. So typically what that looks like is we're gone on race weekend. And my family just doesn't come along with me. I'll be by myself. And I can say, you know, total focus on on the task at hand. It was funny, even when they came to Phoenix the past couple of years for the championship races, I stayed in a completely different hotel than my family, not just my wife and kids, but yeah, my, my, you know, my mother father-in-law and my parents, they all kind of stayed in one area. I stayed in my bubble. And people are like, wow, that's really weird. I'm like, well, it's worked for me the past three years. I'm gonna keep staying focused and you guys stay up all night and not get sleep. We'll see. We're talking with Ben Rhodes, our own Ben Rhodes here from Louisville, Kentucky. Two time Craftsman Truck Series Champion and reigning champion. And Ben, I'm not trying to compare F1 to the Craftsman Truck Series, but that circuit looks to test cockpit AC. And that's talking about air conditioning. That's been in the news lately after some drivers succumbed to sort of the heat at Carter where it can be very hot. They're gonna do this at the Dutch Grand Prix later this month. British driver, of course, Lewis Hamilton speaking out saying, no, that's not necessary. A couple of questions for you, Ben. Do you remember the hottest race you ever involved in? And where do you stand when it comes to maybe putting cooling units in rides? No, I'm a big fan of the cooling units. It depends on what you're racing, of course. But at least in NASCAR, it's very fitting that we have that. It was probably, you know, a cooling unit isn't cheap. We've got two different ways to do it. You've got the cool box or I guess it's like a trying to think of how to describe this here. It's basically a fan that uses these cooling electromagnetic fins that cool the air. And then they also have a spot for a filter to reduce the carbon monoxide intake. So basically that cold air, that cool air goes to your helmet, but it really doesn't work that well when it's hot out. Actually, you really don't even notice a deference when it's hot out. It's basically fresh air that's had the carbon removed out of it. So that's a big safety item, right? Like that's important. But the other item would be the cool shirt, which I just invested in last year. And that was the single biggest game changer for me. I don't think drivers can properly state how hot it truly gets inside these race cars. Yeah. So for me, the hottest race I've ever been a part of was 2020 at the Daytona road course. And remember, COVID was that year. So they changed the schedule up quite a bit to just try to get these races in. So they have us racing Daytona. And I think either July or August, middle of the day, it's, you know, upper 90s with like a really, really high humidity rate. And I think it was two thirds of the field was in the medical center after the race. And there was quite a few drivers that never even finished the race. Yeah. So it was extremely taxing. And you know, I've told my wife after that one was done, I said, that took a few years off my life, like literally, like, I don't know how I made it through there. But I really hope I'm never subjected to that heat ever again. It was pretty, pretty crazy. Yeah, you were talking about, you know, pops and your family and being a family man now. Do you ever make it back home to Louisville? And if so, what do you like to do when you come home? Oh, yeah. No. So I never truly moved away. Um, you know, it's funny. All these other drivers live in North Carolina around their race teams. But, but our race teams in Ohio. So it makes no sense for me to go to North Carolina. That's a further drive than what I've got now out of Louisville. So I know I still live in Louisville. I, uh, I'm here, uh, quite often if I'm not at the race shop or race track, then I'm in Louisville. And, uh, I, uh, I like it here, right? It's my friends, my family. It's our support system. If I moved to North Carolina, I don't have any of that. And that's pretty important when you have children. Yes, you're absolutely right. Well, Ben, we love having you part here in Louisville. We, we talk about you all year. We watch it. Yeah, I like you being the truck races. Cause I like my Friday nights when I come and come home, watch a good truck race. And it's great. And then I did Wednesdays and Thursday nights with the truck series special. Yeah. Oh, do you, do you prefer like a midweek as opposed to a Friday? I don't, I don't mind it. Uh, it's cool. Right. It changes it up a bit. If it's a night race on a Wednesday, people come home. They've, they've got really something to look for to midweek. And that's kind of been like a, a point of feedback that fans have given me over the years. Okay. Well, I like it on a Friday. Cause that's quasi my happy hour. So Ben, listen, man, you are the best. It's always great to catch up with you. I know you've been busy and certainly we're going to be watching you from here in Louisville. You're one of our own. We like to claim you every time we talk about you on sports. You are a two time defending and reigning series champion. And you're going to wrap the regular season up August 10th in Richmond. It is the clean harbors 250. You can see that on FS one, all the best Ben. And like I said, we'll be watching and good luck to you, my man. Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate you. And that's a wrap on this special sports edition of Kentucky Focus. Again, a big thank you to Bellamine women's basketball coach, Chancellor Dugan, who after signing her multi year extension will enter her 13th year at the helm of the Knights. Also, thank you to the pride of Holy Cross high school and Kentucky native who still calls it home through time and reigning NASCAR craftsman truck series champion Ben Rhodes. And good luck as he and the trucks wrap up the regular season August 10th in Richmond in the clean harbors 250. That's a race, by the way. You can see on national TV FS one starting at 7 30 for all of us here at Kentucky Focus and the Kentucky News Network. I'm Scott Fitzgerald saying make it a safe and happy week. We'll talk to you next time on Kentucky. Hey, everyone, it is Ryan C. Crest here ready to heat up your summer vacation. Get ready. Things are about to get sizzling at Chumba Casino. Your summer getting a whole lot hotter with a special daily login bonus waiting just for you. So sign up now for reals of fun and reals of prizes right here at Chumba Casino with yours truly join me at Chumba casino.com and dive into a summer of social casino fun sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary vgw group for prohibited by law 18 plus terms and conditions apply. [Music]