In the Trenches 102 - Warde Manuel, Two Olympians
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The University of Michigan's Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics Warde Manuel joins the show to discuss the latest developments on the athletic department and University's response to COVID-19 (10:30). Then, we share some sound pertaining to the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games from a pair of Wolverines-turned-Olympians in Sam Mikulak and Dr. Jeff Porter.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to In the Trenches, where we get a chance to talk about Michigan Athletics, Michigan |
| 0:05.0 | Football, and today we've got a special guest. It is the Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics |
| 0:12.0 | Ward Manual. We'll get to him and some special sound clips next on In the Trenches. |
| 0:18.2 | Let's go In the Trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you in the trenches. Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. The former Wolverines captain in |
| 0:23.0 | Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. |
| 0:27.5 | This is a big, big competition for all of us in this world right now. You know, we have to |
| 0:34.4 | be resilient. We have to be, we have to persevere. |
| 0:39.7 | We have to look past ourselves and really work together as a team. |
| 0:44.6 | Once again, here's John Jansen. |
| 0:47.5 | We will have Ward Manuel, the director of athletics. |
| 0:50.5 | In just a few minutes, we will also have some clips after from Dr. Jeff Porter, |
| 0:55.7 | who is U of M's Director of Student Athlete Alumni Relations, also a two-time Olympian in the men's |
| 1:02.7 | 110-meter hurdles, as well as Sam McCulloch, two-time Olympian, as well as former gymnast |
| 1:10.2 | at the University of Michigan. He was in the 2012 and |
| 1:13.5 | 2016 Olympics, so we'll have some sound clips from a conversation that I had with them earlier |
| 1:19.3 | this week. Obviously, this is a changing world on a daily basis now, on a minute by minute basis, |
| 1:26.4 | it seems like at times. |
| 1:28.2 | But Brian Bush, the play-by-play voice of Michigan basketball, my partner here on in the trenches. |
| 1:34.7 | Brian, this has been an epic period in not just sports history, American history, but human history. |
| 1:43.8 | How are you a week into, or a little more than a |
| 1:47.9 | week into this, what we're, I don't even know how we're defining this moment yet, but the COVID-19 |
| 1:54.5 | suspension of sports and suspension of life as we know it. Well, my dog Nellie is certainly |
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