Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Kacie Wallace, Athlete Ombuds for Team USA Athletes since 2015. As an attorney with an advanced degree in dispute resolution, Wallace spent the prior 10 years mediating disputes for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. She has taught negotiation, mediation and international conflict management at Duke University and North Carolina Central University School of Law, as well as in Hong Kong and Thailand through the Rotary Center for International Peace and Conflict Resolution. The Office of the Athlete Ombuds and its staff (the Athlete Ombuds) is a resource available to Team USA Athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement. Their focus is to serve athletes who represent the U.S. in international competition.
Wallace was a swimmer at Duke University and now paddles for the YOLO Board Standup Paddle team, competing in the 2013 World Championships across the Molokai Channel in Hawaii, and recently paddled 304.6 miles from South Carolina to Virginia to raise awareness about ocean sustainability. She now resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and plans to become a sprint paddler in the not-so-open waters of Colorado.
Mark Your Calendar
11/20/24 – Cliff Godwin, Head Baseball Coach, East Carolina University
12/4/24 – George Lewis, Author (Bucky Waters’ memoirs)
12/18/24 – Durham Sports Club Christmas Party