Our Team
Nations of Coaches is blessed to have a team of highly talented professionals who work together to help coaches and athletes across the country achieve a higher level of play in sports… and in life.

Tommy Kyle
Executive Director
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Dale Clayton
V.P. of Coaches’ Ministries
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Marty Stubblefield
Chief Operating Officer
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With over 30 years in banking and government administration, Marty Stubblefield is a recognized business and government leader, speaker and ministry partner.
Since 1997, he has been writing the Great Day Addendum daily devotion, which has subscribers across the country and internationally ( www.oldlazydog.com).
A graduate of Frankfort High School in Frankfort, Kentucky, Marty went on to play basketball at the University of Southern Mississippi. After two seasons in the old Metro Conference, he transferred to Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. After his playing career, Stubblefield returned to USM to graduate with a degree in Marketing – Sales Management.
Among other involvements, he was the founder of Power Point, a Tallahassee marketplace ministry; the founding coach of the Tallahassee Storm girls travel basketball program; a long-time regional board member and speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; and on the board of directors of Tallahassee Christian College and Training Center.
He is married to the former Amy Hutto and they have three college and high school age daughters – Ellie, Abbie, and Sarah Grace, and two Labradoodles.

Pete Wehry
National Director
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Jon McLamb
Legacy Engagement Director
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Jon joined NOC in 2020 as the Legacy Enrichment Director and is currently focusing on the North Carolina/ South Carolina region.
Jon has a strong background as a program builder. He has a proven track record of implementing and leading successful capital campaigns and fundraising programs at higher education institutions including Wake Forest University and Georgia State University.
Jon also started and led his own company, CourtHarbor which developed the first-ever free-standing tennis court dividers, and custom logo court products for tennis. In 2017, CourtHarbor merged with North Carolina-based SE Logo Wear.
His passion for basketball, which began at an early age, includes coaching basketball at Milton High School (GA); North Davidson High School (NC); and Greensboro College (NC). He is included in the 1994 Greensboro College Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the coaching staff.
A 1992 graduate of East Carolina University, Jon, and his wife, Kerri, and their two sons, Lawson and Layton, live in Lexington, NC

Nikki Sprader
Executive Administrator
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Heather Kyle
Marriage & Family Ministry Coordinator
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Melissa Woodruff
Executive Assistant
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Regional Director
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Tim Carter
Regional Director
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Tim Carter joined Nations of Coaches as the Regional Director over Texas in 2020 after an exemplary 34-year college basketball coaching career. Carter began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma from 1982-83 and was an assistant coach at Midwestern State University from 1984-86. He helped lead Houston to the NCAA Tournament in 1987 and then joined Leonard Hamilton’s staff at Oklahoma State from 1987-90, leading the Cowboys to the NIT in 1989 and 1990. From 1990-94, Coach Carter was the head coach at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. From there he had an 11-year stint at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Coach Carter is the all-time winningest head coach at the University of Texas-San Antonio, leading his team to the NCAA Tournament twice during his tenure. After reuniting with Leonard Hamilton at Florida State for the 2006-07 season, Carter became the head coach at South Carolina State for six seasons from 2007-2013.
Coach Carter earned an associate’s degree from Hutchinson Community College (1976), his bachelor’s degree in education from Kansas (1979) and a Master’s in education from Oklahoma (1984). He is a past board member of both the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Tim and his wife, Sheila, have two daughters, Kiara and Kortney, and a son, Wynton.

Regional Director
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Steve Roberts
Regional Director
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Chantel Rice
Legacy Engagement Coordinator
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Chantel Rice is passionate about college athletics, serving student-athletes and equipping them with the necessary resources to succeed on and off the field of play, ultimately, to help them reach their God-given potential. A native of Lafayette, Indiana, Chantel earned a B.S. in Organizational Leadership with a focus in Human Resources and a Master’s degree in Sports Administration. She previously worked as the Bruin Club Athletic Development Assistant at Belmont University and was a 2019 NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar participant. Chantel and her husband, Adam Rice, currently reside in Nashville, Tennessee.

Grayson Wakefield
National Associate
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Grayson started working at Nations of Coaches in 2019 as an administrative intern. After serving 9 months in the part-time position, he joined Nations of Coaches full-time at the beginning of 2020 as the National Associate, assisting the National Director, Pete Wehry, minister to and oversee NOC Character Coaches across the country. Grayson is concurrently a student at Liberty University, working towards his degree in Christian Leadership.
Because of his experience as a Christian student-athlete, Grayson is passionate about helping others fight for a healthy balance between work or school, sports, and family, and seeing people reach their full God-given potential. Grayson stated, “My goal is to see the kingdom of God moved forward through the game of basketball.”
Grayson is married to Bailey Speers Wakefield.

Lynette Gee
NOC Wives Coordinator
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Before joining Nations of Coaches as NOC Wives Coordinator, God has lead Lynette through a number of careers ranging from engineering and pharmaceutical sales to teaching math at the high school and junior college levels. She is also an entrepreneur health and wellness advocate, providing nutritional products and resources.
Lynette received her MS degree in Engineering Management from Cleveland State University in 1994 and her BS from North Carolina A&T in 1990.
Lynette served as a women’s teacher-leader with the Bible Study Fellowship in Charleston, West Virginia, and she and Jayson have facilitated marriage Bible studies and have been the keynote speakers for the 2011 FCA marriage retreat. She currently serves as a co-facilitator of a life group “Healthy by Design” at Every Nation Cincinnati in Ohio, and as a facilitator with Coaches Wives Bible Study.
Lynette celebrates 30 years as a coach’s wife to Jayson. They have 3 children, Brandon, 27, Bryan, 24, and Briana, 15, and reside in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Hope Radebaugh
NOC Wives Coordinator
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Hope co-leads the NOC Wives ministry with Nations of Coaches, and additionally, she is an itinerant speaker with Forge, a ministry based in Denver, Colorado. She loves to write, share truths from God’s word, go on long walks with her husband Barclay and spend time in nature. A former science teacher of 28 years, Hope is fascinated by seeing evidence of God in creation (Romans 1:20). She has authored two books: “Love is Speaking… Hearing God’s Whispers in Everyday Spaces” and “Gym Rats” a devotional for coaches’ wives. Hope is the wife of Charleston Southern Men’s Basketball Coach, Barclay Radebaugh, and they have lived in Charleston, South Carolina for 16 years. They have three adult children; Reid, Sophia, and Anna, who is married to Don and has a daughter named Ruth.

Dee Kijanko
Marriage Enrichment Coach
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Dee Kijanko is an artist, writer, speaker, and mentor, who is passionate for the hearts of women. She and Tony have been married for 45 years and she has been devoted to their “co-ministry” to all of the teams Tony has coached. She has been volunteering with the NOC Wives Steering Committee for the last year, helping to develop outreach and support to all women married to a coach.
Together the Kijankos are grateful to have parented four children and now are filled with joy to be called “Mimi” and “Papa” by six grandchildren. They also have led short-term international mission teams to many countries over the past 30 years

Tony Kijanko
Marriage Enrichment Coach
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Tony Kijanko has been coaching in some form for many years. Before his 45-year football coaching career, he played offensive tackle at Bowling Green State University and professionally for the Cleveland Browns. Afterward, he coached high school and college football at various schools, most recently at Taylor University in Indiana. In his “retirement” he continued to coach his oldest grandson at Dawson County High School in North Georgia.
Together the Kijankos are grateful to have parented four children and now are filled with joy to be called “Mimi” and “Papa” by six grandchildren. They also have led short-term international mission teams to many countries over the past 30 years

Kathy Silvestri
Marketing & Comm
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Kathy joined the Nations of Coaches team as director of marketing & communication in 2017. A graduate of Auburn University with a BFA in Art/Graphic Design, Kathy has more than 30 years of experience in marketing and design, including a tenure at the Carnegie Visual Arts Center. Kathy and her husband, Lt. George Silvestri with the Decatur Police Department, live in Decatur and have four grown children.
Character Coaches

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Greg serves on the Midwestern State University men’s basketball team as a full-time Nations of Coaches character coach. Since joining Nations of Coaches in 2017, his passion for basketball and love for mentoring young men has had a powerful impact on every coach and player he’s served at MSU Texas. Greg, his wife Keri, and their young daughter live in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Ric Callahan
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Ric Callahan serves as the Character Coach for the Samford University Men’s Basketball Team in Birmingham, Alabama. He has been a pastor for 35 years serving in the local church. Ric and his daughter own and operate a non-profit ministry called Quest Kids Club. His passion is to lead and guide men to become like Jesus. He loves ministering to the coaches and players at Samford. Any financial support given will be used to cover expenses for his ministry to the team. Ric is married to Carla and they have two daughters.

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Carl Lanham
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Carl Lanham, Character Coach at Wright State University, grew up in South Carolina. After playing college basketball in the 1980s at USC-Aiken, he coached high school basketball for twelve years.
Carl has also served with a prison basketball ministry for eight years, playing and pastoring. He is a licensed minister and served with Athletes in Action for seven years.
Carl currently lives in Dayton Ohio with his wife, Angela, and they have two adult children, Jonah and Qunteelah.
Board of Directors

Jim Haney, Founder
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Rick Barnes
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RICK BARNES is the reigning Naismith College Coach of the Year after guiding the University of Tennessee to a school-record-tying 31 wins and a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2018-19. In 32 overall seasons as a Division I head coach, Barnes has led his teams to 24 total NCAA Tournament berths, seven Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and one Final Four in 2003.
His coaching experience includes head coaching stops at George Mason (1987-88), Providence (1988-1994), Clemson (1994-98), Texas (1998-2015) and Tennessee (2015 – current).
He earned a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Lenoir-Rhyne in 1977 and was named the college’s Distinguished Alumnus in 1997. Barnes was inducted into the Lenoir-Rhyne College Hall of Fame on Oct. 5, 2002, and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lenoir-Rhyne on May 7, 2005.
He and his wife, Candy have a son, Nick, and a daughter, Carley. Carley and her husband, Josh Lickteig, have four children: Avery, Caleb, Emma and Isla.

Dana Ford
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Coach Dana Ford is the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Missouri State University.
A native of Tamms, Illinois, Ford is a 2006 graduate of Illinois State University where he was a four-year letterman for the Redbirds under coaches Tom Richardson and Porter Moser from 2002 to 2006. He was a regular starter and led ISU in steals as a senior.
He went on to successful assistant coaching stints at Winthrop University and Wichita State University under coach Gregg Marshall. He later served as associate head coach at Illinois State under coach Dan Muller. His coaching resume also includes assistant coaching stops at Chipola (Fla.) College and Tennessee State. Coach Ford was most recently the head coach at Tennessee State University.
He and his wife, Christina have a daughter, Charlie Rose, and three sons, Carson, Cameron, and Crain. The Fords are also the parents of another daughter, Promise, who passed away in infancy in 2017.

Ritchie McKay
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Ritchie McKay is the Liberty University Men’s Basketball head coach. After spending six seasons working under Tony Bennett as associate head coach at Virginia, McKay returned to Liberty on April 1, 2015. Coach McKay previously served as the program’s head coach during the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons.
Prior to his first stint as head coach at Liberty, McKay served as head coach at Portland State (1996-98), Colorado State (1998-00), Oregon State (2000-02) and New Mexico (2002-07). McKay also served as an assistant under Jim Molinari at the 1997 World University Games in Italy, where the USA captured the gold medal.
McKay earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in athletic administration from Seattle Pacific in 1987. A stellar player for the Falcons, McKay left the program as the school’s single-season and career record holder for steals, and he was third in career assists. He still holds the school record with 10 steals in a 1987 game against Pacific Lutheran.
McKay is married to the former Julie Summers. The couple have two sons and a daughter, Luke and Ellie, current Liberty students and Gabriel, a current student-athlete at Trevecca Nazarene University.