Nathan Meikle

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Nathan Meikle
Born1981
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Alma materUniversity of Utah

Stanford Law School

Brigham Young University
Occupation(s)Football player, academic and sportscaster

Nathan Lane Meikle (born 1981) is an American former football player, academic and sportscaster. He is an assistant professor at the University of Kansas School of Business. Meikle played college football for the BYU Cougars.

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Early life and education

Meikle was born in 1981 Idaho Falls, Idaho to Gary Lane Meikle and Jean Bennett Meikle. He has five sisters and one brother. [1] [2] Meikle graduated summa cum laude from Snow College. He received a B.S. from the Marriot School of Business at BYU, a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and got his Ph.D. from the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He completed a postdoc at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. [3] [4] [5]

High school career

Meikle attended Hillcrest High School in Ammon, Idaho. He was named the Eastern Idaho Athlete of the Year for his participation in football, baseball, and basketball. In football he gained 3,500 yards and scored 40 touchdowns during his career at Hillcrest High School. [2]

As a senior in the state playoffs, he rushed for 335 yards and five first-half touchdowns against Mountain Home. He was named first-team all-state at running back, cornerback, and return specialist. As a junior, he set the school record with eight interceptions. Meikle was also a three-year starter in baseball and a two-year starter in basketball. [6] [2]

College career

At Snow College, he played for position coach Aaron Roderick and was named team captain and NJCAA Academic All American.

In 2004, Meikle joined the BYU Cougars under head football coach Gary Crowton where he redshirted his first year.

In 2005, Meikle played for head coach Bronco Mendenhall and position coach Robert Anae. In his first game at BYU against Boston College, Meikle led his team in receptions. In the Las Vegas Bowl against Cal Berkeley (led by Marshawn Lynch and DeSean Jackson), Meikle set the Las Vegas Bowl record and BYU Bowl record with 12 receptions, although the cougars lost the game. [7] [8] [9] [10] At the end of the season, Meikle was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American team and was awarded a football scholarship. [11] [12] [13]

In 2006 as a senior, Meikle was part of the 2006 BYU Team that won a conference championship. [14] In Meikle’s final collegiate game, he played in the 2006 Las Vegas Bowl against Oregon which BYU won 38-8.

Meikle was named all-conference punt returner, national scholar athlete candidate and semi-finalist for the National Football Foundation Draddy Trophy (later renamed the Campbell Trophy). [15] [16] [17]

Life after football

In 2007, Meikle began working as the KSL/IMG sideline reporter for BYU football games. After taking a two-year hiatus (from 2010-2011) to attend Stanford Law School, Meikle rejoined the broadcast team in 2012 during his final year of law school. He stayed with the BYU broadcast team until 2018. [18]

In 2014, Meikle published a book Little Miss: a father, his daughter and rocket science, detailing how he taught his two-year old daughter to read at an advanced level. [19] [20]

As a postdoc at the University of Notre Dame, Meikle taught negotiation and business ethics. In 2021, he joined the University of Kansas as an assistant professor. [21] [22] [23] [24] Meikle's research primarily focuses on organizational behavior and social perception. His work has been published in Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, The Journal of Business Ethics, and Research in Organizational Behavior. [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

In 2021, Meikle launched his podcast Meikles & Dimes. Initially it served as an audio journal for his children. In 2022, he began interviewing guests on his podcast, including football players Steve Young and Kellen Moore, Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid, poker player Annie Duke, basketball player Jimmer Fredette, and professors Katy Milkman and Max Bazerman. [4] [31] [32]

Meikle is married to Keshia Meikle, a former National Champion Cougarette for BYU, and together they have four children and live in Lawrence, Kansas.

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