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On the Camel Call Podcast it is a CAA Baseball Tournament preview as the CAA Coach of the Year Chris Marx, talks to Chris Hemeyer about his team as they get set for postseason play. Plus, we recap a sensational Spring Season for Campbell Athletics.

Successful college student-athletes are often expert multitaskers – balancing a heavy academic course load with all of the duties expected of a scholarship athlete in and out of season. To say that Denise Ford Shipman did it all during her career at Campbell University would be a vast understatement. On the basketball court, she was a three-time all-conference performer and helped lead the team to 80 victories – including one in the 1989 Big South title game – during her career. Off the floor, she was voted the 1988 Homecoming Queen, was a cadet in the Reserve Officer's Training Corps and commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army upon graduation in 1989. After serving in the Army, Denise earned multiple master's degrees and has devoted much of her professional career to public education. She was inducted in the Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011 and this fall, will be enshrined in the Guilford County Hall of Fame. In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Denise Ford Shipman chats with Stan Cole about her path to Campbell, competing alongside three other Hall of Fame members, jumping out of airplanes, working in the education field and more. Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.

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New Campbell Head Men's Basketball Coach Jimmie Williams sits down with the Voice of the Fighting Camels, Chris Hemeyer. Coach Williams discusses family, faith, growing up in Kansas, his coaching journey, and his plan for Campbell Basketball. After the interview, Chris talks about red hot Campbell Baseball as the team looks to capture a CAA Tournament Championship, plus season Football tickets are on sale now, Chris has all the details.

Michael Rudisill took an indirect path to Campbell University – but after he arrived in Harnett County in 2010, he made the place home for more than a decade. A standout student-athlete and starting linebacker, "Rudi" became a leader on and off the football field and across campus over his four seasons with the Fighting Camels… so much so… that he stuck around to add master's degrees in education and divinity to his undergraduate degree in psychology. Along the way, he served as football team chaplain, worked as an admissions counselor for the medical school – and truly found his calling and career. Now "Rudi" works at Duke University in career services, helping the next generation of college students prepare to transition into the next phase of their life. In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Michael Rudisill chats with Stan Cole about his path to Campbell, three degrees, how he strengthened his faith, Carolina Panthers football and more. Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.

Matt Moot arrived at Campbell in the fall of 2007 – the latest in a long line of golf standouts to make their way from Western Pennsylvania to Buies Creek. Since graduating in 2011, Matt's path has led him back to his alma mater twice. A four-year standout, two-time NCAA regional participant, and later a professional on various tours, Matt eventually turned his attention to coaching and has mentored some of the best golfers ever to pass through Buies Creek. Along the way, he was coached by and coached under Hall of Famer John Crooks. He was named head coach of the Campbell men's program last summer, and now two of Matt's former players are competing on the PGA Tour. In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Matt Moot chats with Stan Cole about his path to Campbell, his playing and coaching career, all things Pittsburgh sports and more. Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.

We got the guys back together again to talk Campbell Athletics! Our Winter sports are winding down, and Spring sports are in full swing. Chris, Evan, Lendl, and Zach discuss a wild winter as Men's Basketball starts the CAA Tournament, and our Women's team tries to wrap up a top-three finish in the regular season. Women's Lacrosse is on a seven-game win streak as our Softball and Baseball teams look poised to get back to the top of the CAA. Recorded in the new Campbell podcast room, it is a supersized edition of Camel Call!

Jonathan Rodriguez arrived at Campbell from Puerto Rico, by way of Miami, in the fall of 2006 and by the time he graduated four years later was the first player in Fighting Camel history to score 2,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds in a career. A first-team all-state performer and state champion at Calusa Prep in Miami – "J-Rod" took a chance on a Campbell program that was in a building phase – literally and figuratively. After playing on the Miami Tropics AAU team that sent six players to the Division I ranks, Rodriguez moved to Buies Creek and tiny Carter Gym – capacity 947 – to be a key figure in Coach Robbie Laing's fast-paced attack. He played his first two years in tiny Carter Gym then his last two in Gore Arena as he helped a team go from a winless league record two years before his arrival to a conference regular season title in his senior year. J-Rod was a Mid-Major Freshman All-American and four-time All-Conference performer who at the time of his graduation was one of only 101 players in Division I history to reach the 2000-point, 1000-rebound mark. From there, he embarked on a professional career that has taken him all over the globe and earned a place on the Puerto Rican National team. It's no surprise that J-Rod was inducted this year into the Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame. In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Jonathan Rodriguez chats with Stan Cole about moving to the States as a high school student, his path to Campbell, his professional career, and more. Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.

A quarter century after she graduated, Martha Covington is still one of the best hitters in Campbell and Atlantic Sun Conference softball history. The fast pitch era of Campbell's softball program was less than a decade old in 1996 when Martha first stepped into the left-handed batter's box. She immediately showed Campbell fans that a hitter could display power without sacrificing contact. She shattered the school records for doubles, home runs, total bases and RBI. She set a school mark for slugging percentage, and her .429 batting average is second all-time in Campbell history. Martha was a four-time Atlantic Sun first-team all-conference performer, three-time All-Southeast Region selection and a 3-time ASun batting champ. It's no surprise that she was a member of this year's Campbell Athletics Hall of Fame induction class. In the next episode of Tales from the Creek, Martha Covington chats with Stan Cole about her love of the outdoors, her path to Campbell, how a strong work impacted her performance, and more. Suggestions for future Tales from the Creek interview subjects are always welcome and may be sent to Stan Cole at cole@campbell.edu.

Recorded live at Napper Tandy's on February 12th. Campbell head baseball coach Chris Marx gave us a preview of his 2026 team. Head women's lacrosse coach Dawn Easley tells us about her squad, plus head women's basketball coach Ronny Fisher and head men's basketball coach John Andrzejek join the show to talk about the basketball season and the upcoming CAA Tournament.