{"id":278276,"date":"2026-05-20T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278276\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:36:07","slug":"smith-selected-to-participate-in-the-inaugural-nabc-flight-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278276\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Selected to Participate in the Inaugural NABC Flight School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 On Wednesday morning, the NABC announced the cohorts of assistant men&#8217;s basketball coaches and athletic administrators who have been selected to participate in the inaugural NABC Flight School. The invitation-only event, set to take place on the Nike Philip H. Knight Campus outside of Portland\u00a0on Thursday, May 21 will provide high-level programming targeted at ascending assistant coaches and athletic administrators.<\/p>\n<p>NABC Flight School will feature educational panel discussions, mock interviews and opportunities to build connections between participants and influential head coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners and search firm representatives. Participants for the inaugural NABC Flight School were identified in consultation with head coaches, conference offices, search firms, athletic administration associations and other college sports stakeholders.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2026 NABC Flight School \u2013 Assistant Coach Cohort<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nR-Jay Barsh, Gonzaga<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNeill Berry, Marquette<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nChris Carrawell, Duke<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTJ Cleveland, Texas A&amp;M<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDuffy Conroy, Tulsa<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEmanuel Dildy, Duke<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCourtney Eldridge, Temple<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMike Farrelly, Notre Dame\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nCody Fueger, Kentucky<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nArmon Gates, Minnesota<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRyan Hamm, Cal State Fullerton<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLaDontae Henton, Georgetown<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nChretien Lukusa, Morgan State<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJackie Manuel, American<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJames Martelli, VCU<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJames Miller, Oklahoma State<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nJonathan Mitchell, Mercer<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBrock Morris, Oklahoma<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPat O&#8217;Connell, Towson<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/khristian-smith\/1090\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1090\" target=\"_blank\">Khristian Smith<\/a>, Miami (OH)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKyle Smithpeters, Missouri<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMike Sotsky, Harvard<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nP.J. Thompson, Purdue<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNate Tomlinson, Colorado<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWill Voigt, BYU<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2026 NABC Flight School \u2013 Administrator Cohort<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKristen Brown, Nebraska<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRyan Clingan, St. Bonaventure<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHJ Cohn, Oregon<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKen Dempsey, New Hampshire<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAlfred Grigsby, Seattle<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTiffini Grimes, Purdue<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nStephen Johnson, Seattle<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nScott Sidwell, Colorado State<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 On Wednesday morning, the NABC announced the cohorts of assistant men&#8217;s basketball coaches and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-278276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}