#185: Nate Rucker-Upper Iowa University

#185: Nate Rucker-Upper Iowa University

Can a volleyball game help find someone's passion to coach college track and field? Learn the journey of Nate Rucker, head coach of the Peacocks from Upper Iowa in today's podcast episode. Hear him share his life changing volleyball match as an undergrad at University of Dubucque and the career he built from that epiphany. He travels to Missouri, Iowa, St. Louis, and even Alabama and he creates a career in the NCAA and NAIA ranks. You'll enjoy the challenge he inhereited and accepted at Central Methodist when he found himself the coach of a national champion racewalker. And we even have some fun talking about the southern food experience during his time at Huntingdon College.

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