Tim Hall is the Director of Athletics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was also appointed President of the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (ADA) in the summer of 2017 and has served as the chairman of the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics. During the 2018 NCAA Tournament, the UMBC Retrievers Men’s Basketball team made history when they became the first ever No. 16 seed to beat the No. 1 seed when they beat Virginia by 20 points, 74-54. Tim has previously served as the Athletic Director at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.  Before heading up his own departments, he was the assistant A.D. at Eastern Kentucky University, Saint Xavier University, Youngstown State University, and Kent State University. 

In today’s episode, we discuss:

• The historic upset that the men's basketball team had in the 2018 NCAA Tournament
• How to build a mid-major athletic program
• Hiring and keeping good team members
• What makes UMBC so special

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Articles of interest ...

• UMBC stuns Virginia to make NCAA tournament history as first No. 16 seed beat No. 1 seed
• UMBC’s Tim Hall named president of Division I-AAA Athletics
• This man once dreamed UMBC's upset could happen for UMKC

Past "Success is a Choice" podcast episodes of interest . . .

• Dan Tudor (Recruiting Expert) - Episode 076
• Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino (“Best Ever You” Network & Author of “Percolate”) – Episode 073
• Curtis Hollomon (NCAA Director of Leadership Development) – Episode 064
• Todd Gongwer (Best-Selling Author of “LEAD… for God’s Sake”) – Episode 062
• Mike Hamilton (former Tennessee Athletic Director) - Episode 043
• Jay Korff (Award-Winning Washington DC reporter) - Episode 023
• Kevin Harrington (Original Shark on “Shark Tank”) – Episode 021
• Anton Goff (St. John's University AD) - Episode 010
• Brian Stanchak (College Basketball Coaching Agent) - Episode 002
• Dwane Casey (2018 NBA Coach of the Year) – Episode 001

 

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