Name: Steve Flegel
Job title: Assistant Athletics Director – Sports Information
Department: Athletics
How long have you worked at Whitworth? Full time, since the summer of 1995
What do you like best about your job? The colleagues that I get to work with every day make the job special. Whitworth has the best coaching staff and athletics administration in all of NCAA Division III. Our student-athletes are outstanding and it is a privilege to promote their accomplishments.
In what ways do your gifts and abilities help meet the needs of the campus community you serve? It helps that I love sports. I seem to have a good memory for statistics and facts. I enjoy writing.
Favorite book: Tie: Summer of ’49 (David Halberstam) and A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
Favorite quote: “Hear the other side.” – Saint Augustine
Favorite music: The Chieftains
Guilty pleasure: “Ghost Hunters” on Syfy
Birth place: Princeton, N.J.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Someday I’d love to stand on the shore of the Arctic Ocean and look across the sea. It evokes a great sense of “the end of the world.”
What is your favorite sound? The sound of a baseball (off a wooden bat) hit for a homerun
If the whole world was listening, what would you say? “Shut up.”
Favorite childhood book: The Chronicles of Narnia
Favorite childhood TV show: “Speed Racer”
Best high-school class subject: Social studies
