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Philadelphia Area College Football Preview: Widener University Pride Head Coach Mike Barainyak  The Widener University football team is preparing for the 2021 season and looking to make some noise in the Middle Atlantic Conference. The Division III Pride lost their 2020 season to the COVID19 pandemic, so head coach Mike Barainyak has a group of players that are anxious to get back out on the...

Philadelphia Area College Football Preview: Lincoln University Lions Head Coach Justin Dean After losing the 2020 season to the COVID19 pandemic, the Division II Lincoln University Lions are anxious to get the 2021 college football season underway. Josh Dean has been the head coach at Lincoln since 2018. Lincoln is slated to open its 2021 season on Saturday, September 4th with a home game against...

Mike McDonald has been the head girls basketball coach at Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster since 2015. On his watch, the Vikings have been an elite program, winning three state titles and two Philadelphia Catholic League crowns. Wood alums are found on college rosters throughout the Philadelphia area and beyond. In Episode #98 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with McDona...

Amy Cohen is one of the top field hockey coaches in the country. She has been at the helm of the program at Division II West Chester University since 2011. Since taking over, she has led the Golden Rams to three National Championships in 2011, 2012 & 2019. In Episode #97 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Cohen over Zoom to talk about her life in field hockey, her roa...

Kevin Quinn spent 49 years coaching track & field and cross country at Saint Joseph’s University. He retired in 2015 after enjoying enormous success and his impact on the program can be learned in no small part by the fact that the Hawks’ home track bears his name, “Kevin Quinn Track.” Since his retirement from Saint Joe’s, he has spent some time serving as a volu...

Bryan Volpenhein has been the head coach of the men’s heavyweight rowing team at the University of Pennsylvania since 2019. He has a long history with the U.S. National Team and has made multiple appearances in the Olympics as a coach and a rower, winning gold as a member of the men’s eight in Athens in 2004. In Episode #95 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with Volpen...

Tom Moore has been a sportswriter and columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times since 1985. Since 1988 he has covered the 76ers beat. From Charles Barkley to Allen Iverson to Joel Embiid, if it has happened with the Sixers during that time, Tom Moore has written about it. In Episode #94 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with Moore over Zoom to talk about his career coverin...

Trish Juhline Brunner was one of the greatest players in the history of Villanova University women’s basketball. A Cardinal O’Hara product, she scored more than 1,600 points during her career and as a senior in 2003, she helped lead the Wildcats to the Big East Tournament Title and the NCAA Tournament’s Elite 8. To win that Big East title, that Villanova team upset UConn in legen...

Kevin McGovern is a baseball player. He's a left-handed pitcher and a Philly guy, he went to high school at Archbishop Ryan and college at Thomas Jefferson University in East Falls. And for the last decade he has been moving all over the country and beyond, playing ball in independent minor leagues, with teams not affiliated with any Major League squad. That is a long time to be chasing your dream...

Matt Azevedo has been the head wrestling coach at Drexel University since 2011. On his watch, the Dragons have made multiple appearances in the national rankings and had more than 30 individual NCAA Wrestling Championships qualifiers. In Episode #92 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt speaks with Azevedo over Zoom to talk about his success at Drexel. They also discuss Azevedo’s impr...

Diana Caramanico was one of the greatest women's basketball players in Big 5 history. A University of Pennsylvania legend, she is the all-time leading scorer in Big 5, Ivy League and Penn history with 2,415 points. She was a four-time first-team All-Ivy selection, logged an incredible 65 career double-doubles and lead the Quakers to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history as a se...

Emily Messina is the play-by-play voice for the Phillies’ Double-A affiliate the Reading Fightin Phils, making her one of the few, but growing number of female play-by-play broadcasters working today. In Episode #90 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with Messina over Zoom to talk about her career in broadcasting, what it is like to broadcast a game by herself and the challen...

Before the NBA G League, there was the Eastern Professional Basketball League. It was a northeast league stocked to the brim with great players like John Chaney, Stan Pawlak, Jim Boeheim, and Hal Lear, with many of the teams calling Eastern Pennsylvania home. The league featured larger than life characters on and off the court, and the stories from the Eastern League are absolutely wild. Syl Sobel...

Marco Dapkey is the owner of CrossFit MFP in Haverford Township, a fitness coach and one of the top CrossFit competitors in the country. He was also a star football player at Neshaminy High School before his career was derailed by cancer.   In Episode #89 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with Marco about the world of CrossFit, his success as a competitor and his battle to be...

Peter Gallagher has been the head football coach at Division III Ursinus College in Collegeville since 2000. He has coached and won more games than any other coach in program history. In 2010, his Bears won the Centennial Conference title. In Episode #88 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Gallagher over Zoom to talk about his time in Collegeville, how he got into coaching...

Harold Jensen was a star basketball player at Villanova University and a key member of the 1985 team that shocked Georgetown and the world to win the first National Championship in program history. Jensen was a perfect 5 for 5 from the field in that win over the Hoyas, including the go-ahead basket in the final minutes. In Episode #87 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Je...

Demetrius Poles was one of the greatest high school basketball players South Jersey has ever seen. He led Delsea High School to a state title in 1991 before going on to play in college at Saint Joseph’s University and then Rowan University, helping the Profs win a Division III National Title in 1996. He spent years playing overseas and now serves as the head women’s basketball coach at...

Joe Fields is a South Jersey native who played his college football at Widener University. After an outstanding college career, he was drafted in the 14th round by the New York Jets in 1975 and went on to enjoy a 14-year NFL career, spending 13 of those seasons with the Jets and becoming an elite offensive lineman. In Episode #85 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Fields...

Dave Thomas is the cross country (15th season) and track and field (9th season) coach at Division II Thomas Jefferson University. He’s led the Rams to 14 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference titles (11 women’s cross country & 3 men’s cross country). Thomas has also run 76 marathons, taking part in races all over the world. In Episode #84 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,&rdq...

Mike Rogodzinski spent parts of three seasons with the Phillies from 1973 to 1975. He was an outfielder, but most of his time in the big leagues was spent as a pinch-hitter. In fact, he still holds the Phillies rookie record for pinch-hits with 16 in 1973. In Episode #83 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Rogodzinski over Zoom to look back on his career. They talk about h...

Lynn Farquhar has been the head field hockey coach at Saint Joseph’s University since 2014 and on her watch the Hawks have become a power in the Atlantic 10, winning three conference titles and advancing to three straight NCAA Tournaments. In Episode #82 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt speaks with Farquhar over Zoom to talk about her career in field hockey and her success on Haw...

Justin Watson was one of the greatest football players in the history of the University of Pennsylvania. He rewrote the receiving record book for the program before getting drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2018. In Episode #81 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon” Matt catches up with Watson over Zoom to look back at his incredible college football career. They also talk about how important...

Matt Hockenberry is the pitching coach for the Phillies Single-A squad, the Jersey Shore BlueClaws. He has been a coach in the organization since his days as a pitcher in the organization came to a close. In Episode #80 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt talks with Hockenberry over Zoom about his career in coaching, his memories of pitching in the minor leagues and what it was like being...

Drew Kelly has been the head men’s basketball coach at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr since the program’s creation in December of 2004. On his watch, the Bears have won at least 20 games every season and become an elite junior college program. In Episode #79 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt catches up with Kelly over Zoom to talk about his life in basketball, what it was like...

Ann Li is one of the rising stars in women’s professional tennis. Just 20-years old, the Devon native recently advanced to the Round of 32 at the Australian Open. In Episode #78 of “1-on-1 with Matt Leon,” Matt speaks with Li over Zoom about what it is like to be a pro tennis player, what she loves about the game and how she handles the travel that goes along with being a pro. "1...