University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
NCAA Ambassador Jack Ford to Visit With UNC Asheville Student-Athletes and Staff
04.24.2019 | Athletics News
The strategic plan for UNC Asheville athletics entitled "Believe. Achieve. Thrive." is the road map for the Bulldogs over the course of the next five years.
The strategic plan outlines key areas of focus and growth in developing lifetime leaders from the most valuable resource that UNC Asheville athletics has in its student-athletes.
In helping to continue to develop those lifetime leaders, UNC Asheville student-athletes will have the truly unique and special opportunity to be visited by Jack Ford. The event is being sponsored by the NCAA.
Ford, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist, documentary producer, prominent trial attorney, author and educator, will be in a town hall meeting with the Bulldog student-athletes, sharing insights about the perceptions of college sports. In addition, Ford will meet with the UNC Asheville athletics department coaches and staff.
Ford will first meet with the Bulldog student-athletes on Sunday, April 28, before meeting with the UNC Asheville coaches and staff on Monday, April 29.
"This is a truly exceptional opportunity for our student-athletes, coaches and staff," UNC Asheville Director of Athletics Janet R. Cone said. "I have had the chance to get to know Jack Ford over the years, and I know that our student-athletes are in for a real treat that will teach them a great deal as we get ready to close out the 2019 spring semester. Jack's unique background makes him an ideal person to talk about the current perceptions of college athletics and what that means going forward."
Ford has been at the top of the media, legal, and sports worlds, including his prominent positions at NBC, ABC and ESPN. He currently serves as a legal analyst for CBS News. He may be best known for his roles at ABC News, starting in 1999, as an anchor and correspondent for Good Morning America, 20/20 and World News Tonight.
Prior to that, Ford worked at NBC News as chief legal correspondent, where he reported on major legal stories for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and Dateline. In addition, he was the co-anchor for the Weekend Today Show and a substitute anchor for Nightly News and Meet the Press.
A prominent sports journalist, Ford hosted ESPN's The Sports Reporters II from 2002-2003.
Ford has been successful in various legal roles, both in and outside of television. Upon graduation from Fordham Law School - an education he helped finance from winnings on the TV show Jeopardy! - Ford spent three years as a prosecutor in New Jersey before entering private practice, successfully handling such high-profile cases as the Northeast's first death penalty trial, one of the nation's first corporate homicide cases and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the late 1980s.
He also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Fordham University School of Law and currently is a visiting lecturer at Yale University, New York University and the University of Virginia. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, "The Osiris Alliance" and "The Walls of Jericho".
Ford started his journey in higher education at Yale University, where he was a scholarship student and three-year starter on the varsity football team.
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He is deeply involved with education issues and currently serves on the management team for the new education-focused network American Ed TV. He has received multiple awards, including two Emmy Awards for his work in journalism, a Peabody Award, American Radio and Television Award, National Headliner Award and the March of Dimes FDR Award.
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In 1997, he received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, which is presented to former outstanding college athletes who have achieved extraordinary success in their professional lives. In 1998, Mr. Ford was honored with a "National Father of the Year Award," and in 2009, he was a recipient of Yale University's highest athletic honor, the "George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award."
To learn more about Jack Ford, please visit HERE.Â
**Photo Collage courtesy of NCAA**
The strategic plan outlines key areas of focus and growth in developing lifetime leaders from the most valuable resource that UNC Asheville athletics has in its student-athletes.
In helping to continue to develop those lifetime leaders, UNC Asheville student-athletes will have the truly unique and special opportunity to be visited by Jack Ford. The event is being sponsored by the NCAA.
Ford, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist, documentary producer, prominent trial attorney, author and educator, will be in a town hall meeting with the Bulldog student-athletes, sharing insights about the perceptions of college sports. In addition, Ford will meet with the UNC Asheville athletics department coaches and staff.
Ford will first meet with the Bulldog student-athletes on Sunday, April 28, before meeting with the UNC Asheville coaches and staff on Monday, April 29.
"This is a truly exceptional opportunity for our student-athletes, coaches and staff," UNC Asheville Director of Athletics Janet R. Cone said. "I have had the chance to get to know Jack Ford over the years, and I know that our student-athletes are in for a real treat that will teach them a great deal as we get ready to close out the 2019 spring semester. Jack's unique background makes him an ideal person to talk about the current perceptions of college athletics and what that means going forward."
Ford has been at the top of the media, legal, and sports worlds, including his prominent positions at NBC, ABC and ESPN. He currently serves as a legal analyst for CBS News. He may be best known for his roles at ABC News, starting in 1999, as an anchor and correspondent for Good Morning America, 20/20 and World News Tonight.
Prior to that, Ford worked at NBC News as chief legal correspondent, where he reported on major legal stories for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and Dateline. In addition, he was the co-anchor for the Weekend Today Show and a substitute anchor for Nightly News and Meet the Press.
A prominent sports journalist, Ford hosted ESPN's The Sports Reporters II from 2002-2003.
Ford has been successful in various legal roles, both in and outside of television. Upon graduation from Fordham Law School - an education he helped finance from winnings on the TV show Jeopardy! - Ford spent three years as a prosecutor in New Jersey before entering private practice, successfully handling such high-profile cases as the Northeast's first death penalty trial, one of the nation's first corporate homicide cases and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the late 1980s.
He also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Fordham University School of Law and currently is a visiting lecturer at Yale University, New York University and the University of Virginia. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, "The Osiris Alliance" and "The Walls of Jericho".
Ford started his journey in higher education at Yale University, where he was a scholarship student and three-year starter on the varsity football team.
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He is deeply involved with education issues and currently serves on the management team for the new education-focused network American Ed TV. He has received multiple awards, including two Emmy Awards for his work in journalism, a Peabody Award, American Radio and Television Award, National Headliner Award and the March of Dimes FDR Award.
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In 1997, he received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, which is presented to former outstanding college athletes who have achieved extraordinary success in their professional lives. In 1998, Mr. Ford was honored with a "National Father of the Year Award," and in 2009, he was a recipient of Yale University's highest athletic honor, the "George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award."
To learn more about Jack Ford, please visit HERE.Â
**Photo Collage courtesy of NCAA**
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