Van Shea Iven and Ryan Deatherage were the two most recent guest speakers of the Kingfisher Lions Club.

The director of media relations for the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association, Iven spoke at the Nov. 3 meeting.

Iven was a longtime sports reporter for KFORTV in Oklahoma City before producing his own television program, “Oklahoma High School Sports Express.”

He joined the OSSAA in June 2014.

Iven discussed a number of topics with Lions Club members, including name, image and likeness (NIL) guidelines that were recently passed by the associaton’s 15-member board.

He said although people might assume athletes will benefit the most from NIL, it’s actually those in e-sports who are sought after by potential advertisers.

Iven said potential customers probably won’t be influenced by a high schooler telling them they should buy a vehicle from a particular dealership.

“They’re looking at the gamer who has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media,” Iven said.

He also talked about the OSSAA’s sportsmanship policy enacted this year, the dwindling number of sports officials and continued discussions and meetings of a committee formed to shape Rule 14.

Rule 14 deals with classifi cation among member schools, but more specifically how non-public (private) schools are classified.

Iven said the committee’s focus has moved more to looking at individual sports more predominatly dominated by non-public schools.

Iven was introduced by Lions Club member Michael Swisher.

Deatherage is a Kingfisher city commissioner, director of the Kingfisher County 911 system and owner of The Grounds Guys, a landscaping company.

He told Kingfisher Lions club members of his volunteer work with the South Baptist Convention Disaster Relief of Oklahoma.

He said he has worked hurricane, flood, ice storm, tornado and fire disasters from the east coast of Florida to the mountains of Colorado.

He said Disaster Relief Oklahoma was one of over 40 such charitable organizations under the Southern Baptist Convention umbrella, with the Oklahoma organization being formed in 1972.

Deatherage noted that the organization began as a “cooking and food distribution” entity, which is still a large part of service, but quickly evolved into services that included debris removal, water purification, laundry, showers, mud and ash removal, chainsaw, first aid, child care, chaplain services and damage assessment.

He said the Oklahoma chapter was 6,000 members strong, with probably around 500 to 600 being “very active.”

He said all services offered were free of charge and the Disaster Relief volunteers relied on donations from corporations, individuals and churches to stay in operation.

Deatherage said volunteers were always welcome and added that they must attend training sessions and be available for disaster relief service on short notice.

Deatherage was introduced by Kingfisher Lions club member Annette Parham, who arranged for the presentation.