This channel is an archive of DYNASTY IN THE WOODS, a podcast series on Oregon State baseball and the 2018 NCAA Championship. Previous episodes on the ”Beaver Tales” channel include ”Where Are They Now?” episodes with former OSU student-athletes.
Episodes
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Jabral Johnson was Oregon State's second-leading tackler the last season the Beavers made a bowl game: 2013. After starting at linebacker in 2013 and 2014, Jabral graduated and went on to become a police officer in Portland.
We talk about some ups and downs at Oregon State, his experience being a cop (especially the last few weeks) as well as his presence as an African-American officer in a predominately caucasian field.
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Today's featured non-profit is Children's Garden, which helps kids in need in the Philippines. They're a small organization, so any donations go a long way. Check them out online at childrensgarden.ph
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Pat Casey's 900th win was also his third national championship. He's a legend at Oregon State, so when I chatted with Pat, I wanted to go as deep as possible into his coaching philosophy, where he found his inspiration, and what values he finds most important.
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In lieu of advertisers on this podcast, I feature some great nonprofits. I know the two house parents/leaders of Children's Garden, a home for street kids in the Philippines. They do amazing work. You can learn more and donate at http://childrensgarden.ph/
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I'll talk to Pat again soon about more specific memories of the 2018 NCAA Championship team, especially for the audio documentary that's I'm producing. That project will be released hopefully within a few months. If you're a Beaver fan, a baseball fan, a podcast documentary fan or are a human being, you'll enjoy that when it comes out!
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Bill Rowe won an NCAA Championship on the 2006 Beaver Baseball team and was an undergraduate assistant coach in 2018 when Oregon State claimed another national title. He's now the head coach of the Medford Rogues, a collegiate summer league squad, and he has a compelling motivation for what attributes he wants to instill in his players.
Rowe spent 10 years in the film industry, most of it working on the set of the Portland-based NBC show "Grimm," and he has some fun memories of preparing the actors in the Twilight movies how to act out a baseball scene. We also talk about his transition back to coaching at Oregon State and some key moments in the College World Series in 2018 that paralleled 2006 when he scored the game-winning run in OSU's first NCAA Title in program history.
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The featured charity for most baseball episodes is Kingdom Home, which aims to end child sex slavery in Uganda. To see how former OSU baseball player Matt Boyd is doing that, check out https://kingdomhome.org/
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
Rachi Wortham was on the Oregon State men's basketball staff for the first two seasons of the Wayne Tinkle era. Among other things, Rachi used his role as the Director of Player Personnel to help student-athletes in their academic pursuits and to think about life beyond basketball. His backstory and philosophy on how to raise young men of character is something we could all use a dose of right now.
Thanks for listening and I hope you can support this episode's featured nonprofit, Convoy of Hope: https://www.convoyofhope.org/
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Pat Bailey has been an assistant coach at Oregon State since the 2008 baseball season, winning the national championship in 2018 and serving as interim head coach for the 2019 season.
Coach Bailey also won a D-III NCAA Championship in 2004 as George Fox's head coach while earning National Coach of the Year. Bailey earned the "Ethics in Coaching Award" from the American Baseball Coaches' Association in 2012, and he joins the Beaver Tales Podcast for an open conversation on coaching philosophy, life philosophy, and race.
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Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Roberto Nelson finished his career as the 4th leading scorer in Oregon State history with 1,745 points, and has since played professionally in the NBA Summer League and overseas in Italy, France, Mexico and New Zealand.
I talked with Roberto partly about his sports career but also about more important things- what should our perspective be on racial tensions in America? What type of conversations do we need to be having? And how has his international travel impacted his point of view?
We start the conversation with how his Oregon State career started, being recruited by Craig Robinson and more, but we finish with the topic of racial inequality and media representation.
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Katelyn Driscoll is another prime example of a student-athlete whose career didn't go as expected. Some last-minute drama caused Katelyn to head to Oregon State in 2012 instead of the University of Colorado. A knee injury and the first of four ACL surgeries prevented her from playing for nearly two years. Her return was rewarding, though: she was healthy in time for the 2014 season and OSU's first two NCAA Tournament victories in program history.
Katelyn similarly has seen her professional career take some unexpected turns. She began playing professional volleyball in the Philippines but another ACL injury cut her career short. She now lives in Melbourne, Australia and joins the Beaver Tales Podcast to reflect on what she's learned since arriving at OSU eight years ago!
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Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
Tyler Malone made the 2018 College World Series All-Tournament team while tying a CWS record with three home runs during OSU's road to the National Championship. He's already had unique experiences in professional baseball in the San Diego Padres organization, switching positions from outfielder to catcher.
Tyler speaks about what made his freshman year in 2017 difficult off the field and what helped him grow as a player and as a person the last three years. Plus, some great memories from Omaha in 2018 during the CWS!
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Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Hunter Jarmon played both football and baseball his freshman year at OSU. He wanted to balance both but had to drop baseball after one season. Over the next three years of football he totaled 555 yards and 3 TDs and was primed for an expanded role as a wide receiver in his final year.
After spring football in 2017, however, he switched sports again. Hunter signed a professional baseball contract with the San Diego Padres. So how did a guy who hadn't thrown a baseball in three years suddenly jump to the pros? The story involves the Don Mattingly family and a phone call Hunter Jarmon never expected to get.
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Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
Zak Taylor was the starting first baseman on OSU's 2018 National Championship team. His walk in the 9th inning of Game 2 in the College World Series turned into the tying run and ultimately a miraculous comeback in Omaha. After finishing his OSU career in 2019, Taylor has played one season of professional baseball in an independent league in Illinois.
Hear his experience in pro ball, what he's learned since leaving OSU and his recollections of the craziest moments in the CWS on the Beaver Tales Podcast!
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Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
Alyssa Loveday (formerly Alyssa Martin) stuck with the OSU women's basketball program when few others did. Players were transferring and de-committing in the midst of a messy coaching change, but Loveday never wavered in her desire to play for the Beavers. She was the only senior in 2014 when OSU made the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly two decades.
Not only that, Loveday was balancing a civil engineering degree during her playing career. She now works in central Oregon. Enjoy her stories of becoming a civil engineer and playing basketball at a crazy time for OSU!
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Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Jack Anderson didn't make the Oregon State baseball team in 2014. He wasn't even offered a walk-on spot. Three years later, he was a First-Team All-Pac-12 outfielder. The next year, he was the starting centerfielder in Game 3 of the College World Series as the Beavers won the national championship. Now, Jack is working on his doctorate in Physical Therapy at Regis University in Denver.
Check out Jack's episode to hear how close he got to never playing baseball at OSU and his journey to becoming a national champion.
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Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
Jarmal Reid was a key role player in the 2015 and 2016 Beaver basketball teams that exceeded expectations and made the program's first NCAA Tournament in 26 years. The 6'7 forward now plays professionally in Australia.
He joins the Podcast from Down Under to talk about his maturation since college in terms of nutrition & academics, the difference between his two head coaches at OSU (Craig Robinson & Wayne Tinkle), and how he handled the death of his father during his college career.
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Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Steven Kwan had a marvelous spring of 2018, being named First Team All-Pac-12 while batting .355 and winning an NCAA Championship. He was drafted in the 5th round by Cleveland and has played in the minor leagues for 2 seasons.
He joins the Beaver Tales Podcast to talk about his growth in the minor leagues, how Pat Casey gave him the confidence to be a great player, and how he supported his OSU teammates in the College World Series whether healthy or not.
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Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Lyle Moevao was a fixture of the Oregon State football team in the late 2000s, leading the Beavers to wins in the 2007 Civil War, the 2008 game vs #1 USC, the 2008 Sun Bowl and more. Moevao ranks in the top 10 in school history in passing yards and touchdowns and now coaches the running backs at Northern Colorado.
He talks about getting mentored by head coach Mike Riley, his relationship with fellow quarterback Sean Canfield, and why he couldn't stop grinning after throwing an interception on his first pass at OSU.
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Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
Michael Gretler was the starting 3rd baseman on Oregon State's 2018 national championship team. He was drafted in the 10th round by the Pittsburgh Pirates but after two seasons in the minors, he retired from pro baseball and now works in Seattle.
He shares about his transition away from baseball, the leadership of head coach Pat Casey, and his experience in the 2018 College World Series.
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Saturday May 09, 2020
Saturday May 09, 2020
Mitch Meeuwsen was the model of a consistent defensive presence: he went from Freshman All-American in 2001 to First-Team All-American in 2004. He intercepted 20 passes while at OSU; to this day, no other Beaver has more than 15. He played in Germany for NFL Europe and later raced dwarf cars after his football retirement. The Forest Grove native now lives in Tualatin with his wife & two kids.
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Matt Boyd's charity: Kingdomhome.org
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Cadyn Grenier won the 2018 Brooks Wallace Award as the best shortstop in college baseball. He also earned First Team All-Pac-12 honors twice, was named 2018 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, and a first-round draft pick of the Baltimore Orioles. But most importantly, Cadyn Grenier is a national champion.
Cadyn talks about his experience in professional baseball so far and his detailed memories of the 2018 College World Series.
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Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
Before the 2007 Civil War, Matt Sieverson had started one game in his career. He came to Oregon State as a walk-on defensive back from Bend, but on December 1, 2007, he got the start at running back. In the final regular season game of his career, Sieverson totaled 142 yards and a touchdown, leading the Beavers to a dramatic, double-overtime victory over the Ducks in Eugene.
Matt talks with Josh about his memories from that game, including a "what if" about that Civil War: what if Yvenson Bernard hadn't gotten hurt and Matt never had the opportunity for his breakout game? Would he still know today what he was capable of?
Saturday May 02, 2020
Saturday May 02, 2020
Langston Morris-Walker was a steady presence for Oregon State in the transition from Craig Robinson to Wayne Tinkle. Playing half his career for each coach, Langston appeared in 118 games. The 6'5 guard was a clutch performer, including in 2015 with his game-winning basket to seal the upset over #7 Arizona.
He opines on the difference between his two coaches, his air guitar celebration, his adoption story, modeling for the 2K14 video game and his current job with Adidas.
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Dustin Stanton started 30 games for OSU on the offensive line, finishing with the 2016 Civil War victory. After getting cut by the Bengals, he held a "corporate America" job in Portland for 5 months before the Dallas Cowboys signed him. He expects to stay in the NFL for the foreseeable future, which makes it that much more surprising Dustin nearly quit football in college when the OSU coaches asked him to switch positions. He reflects on that journey on the Beaver Tales podcast.
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
It seemed Sara Almen's track & field career was done in 2012. She won six state championships in high school (three in high jump, one in the 4x100 relay, two in volleyball) but came to OSU solely as a volleyball player. A lot has happened since then. Her collegiate volleyball career ended and her collegiate track & field career began. She competed in the 2016 Olympic Trials, transferred schools and became a coach. She now works for Pac-12 Radio. Sara shares on the Beaver Tales podcast how she has matured during all the changes.
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
The starting left fielder in Oregon State's NCAA title run in 2018, Kyle Nobach reached the highest peak of collegiate baseball. However, Kyle says expecting to find happiness in success is backwards. He discusses that philosophy, how his relationship with Pat Casey was healed, why he's stepping aside from coaching at Everett Community College and what he's focusing on instead.
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
A two-sport athlete and Olympic Trial finalist, Dick Oldfield was a tremendous middle distance runner for OSU in the early 1980s. He shares his highlights at the Olympic Trials and at OSU, including anecdotes about why his head coach Frank Morris would drive his car on the track as a training exercise as well as how the runners would pilfer Gatorade from the locker rooms after workouts.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Football is only one small part of Steven Christian's story. The former OSU defensive back spent much of his six years of collegiate athletics rehabbing from hip injuries, so he turned to a new outlet: art. As a talented illustrator he has produced comics, animated cartoons and augmented reality books as well as blogs, podcasts and more. His work is online at iltopia.com.
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Jamie Scott, formerly Jamie Weisner, joins the podcast while stuck in Siberia after her most recent season of pro basketball. While at OSU, Jamie was an All-American & the Pac-12 Player of the Year when OSU made the 2016 Final Four. A Canadian National Team gold medalist and already well-traveled in her pro career, Jamie discusses how she's developed as a person and athlete since leaving OSU, and what her first 3 years of marriage have been like with former OSU football player Larry Scott.
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
The granddaughter of OSU Hall of Fame basketball coach Jimmy Anderson, Felicia Anderson was an Oregon State swimmer from 2016-2019. Already holding two school records and an Olympic Trial hopeful, Felicia had just finished her junior year when the swimming program was disbanded. She transferred to SMU for her senior year but even that season was cut short by COVID-19. Felicia shares in the podcast what she's learned through a wild collegiate career.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Simon Date became the first international men's soccer player in Oregon State history when he played for legendary coach Jimmy Conway in the mid-90s. Simon first came to America on a 90-day visa following his high school graduation, but a pickup soccer game in Portland in 1992 changed everything. He shares the story of how he found Oregon State early in the podcast as well as his work now as the head of the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Alexis Serna is a Beaver legend. He won the 2005 Lou Groza Award, labeling him the best kicker in college football, and earned All-American status twice. Serna was a critical part of some momentous Beaver wins, but he's also remembered for missing 3 PATs in the overtime loss to LSU in 2004. He reflects in this episode why he feels blessed by all the valleys he has traversed and how he's helping current OSU athletes prepare for the future.
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Damien Haskins played running back for Oregon State from 2013-2015. He benched pressed 400 pounds, once scored 52 touchdowns in a single season of high school football, and is now a licensed nursing home administrator in Eugene. He is the first guest on the Beaver Tales podcast!