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Episode 1986 Coach of a Lifetime featuring Notre Dame Softball Coach Dale Serie hosted by Gaylon White and Coach Cook with Dave Dagostino

April 9, 2026·1 hr 10 min·6 clips

Notre Dame softball coach Dale Seurat is building a dynasty like Oklahoma's Patty Gassel, with a player hitting a rocket home run after fans chanted for her.

Episode 1986 starts with the count. Dave D'Agostino welcomes listeners to the Real Voices of the Game, names Galen White and Coach Lewis Cook Jr., and notes the network's climb. The room feels loose before Dale's story takes over. Dave thanks just over 248,000 subscribers, listeners in 148 countries, and a show sitting in Listen Score's top 3% globally. Then softball gets the floor. The best stretch is the guest looking back at how strange state championship talk once felt. As a senior football player, he says the furthest run was the quarterfinals, with a 12-0 team stopped by Marcus Spears and Southern Labs. Coaching changed the scale. His first team stayed unbeaten deep into the year, moving from 10-0 to 12-0 and then staring at 28-0. His prayers were usually modest. He says he had never prayed to win a game, only for his kids to play well, stay healthy, and be safe. The championship drive broke that habit. Driving the bus from Sam Houston toward sulfur, he remembers his hands shaking and admits he finally prayed not to lose. Everybody remembers 31-1. The number does its job, and the bus ride does the rest. Two seniors usually sat beside him. McKenzie Abshaw and Hayley Melas rode up front talking to him on every trip. This time, they were dancing in back. That was the sign. The girls were going to be all right, and Dave later thanks Dale for giving the show the softball story it needed.

As heard by us

Softball memory with enough candor to make the bus ride, the nerves, and the semifinal all land.

Episode 1986 stays with Dale Seurat's softball run, and the coach's recollection keeps the bus ride, the shaking hands, and the weight of a state-championship game in view.

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A coach's nerves, a bus ride, and a state-title memory you can feel.

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