Episode #76- Dr. Marty Durden, seasoned sport coach, athletic director, university faculty member, and author, Columbus, Georgia

Dr. Marty Durden has nearly five decades of athletic leadership experience. He is currently the athletic director at Calvary Christian School in Columbus, Georgia. Durden earned his Doctor of Education degree in sports management from the U.S. Sports Academy in 2016 and has written extensively about the “servant-leader” model of coaching, including in a 2019 Sport Digest piece titled "The Call for a Higher Standard Than Winning" and authoring "More Than Winning: The Servant-Leader Coach in Contemporary Society," released in December 2022: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/more-than-winning-marty-durden/1142813591. Durden is a veteran coach whose teams have won state championships in basketball, baseball, football, and golf over the span of nearly five decades. He previously worked as the athletic director at Presbyterian School in Houston, and has also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Belhaven University, Concordia Texas University and at Houston Baptist University.