UW-Madison’s Peter Miller has launched a new podcast called, “Sport and the Growing Good.”
Miller is a professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and he chairs the university’s Athletic Board. Miller is an expert on community-based educational leadership, education in contexts of homelessness, and school-community collaboration. He also teaches and writes about leadership and reform in youth and intercollegiate athletes.
His podcast examines how athletics contribute to everyday improvement in our society by taking an embedded approach to tell stories of the “hidden” people and practices on the front-lines of sport.
Since launching the podcast in January 2020, Miller has spoken with high school and college coaches, student athletes, and experts on the topic from Wisconsin and across the nation.
On episode 22 of “Sport and the Growing Good,” Miller featured Paul Chryst, the head football coach at UW-Madison. One of the many topics the two discuss is high school football programs and how to identify a good one. For Chryst, it’s about identifying a coach who is organized and passionate: “When you go in you know there’s three, four things that they’re just proud of. They can’t wait to show. And then you kind of sense it, feel it.”
Check out the podcast and its 30-plus episodes here.