Alabama athletic trainer Jeff Allen on faith, football and caring for his staff
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Allen has been the Director of Sports Medicine with the University of Alabama since 2007. During his time at Alabama as their head Athletic Trainer, he's been a part of six national championships and is considered one of the most respected athletic trainers in the country.
Prior to this time with the Crimson Tide, Allen served as the head athletic trainer at Tennessee-Chattanooga and Central Florida.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Jeff about his journey to Alabama, why Nick Saban believed in him, how playing football helped guide him to becoming an athletic trainer and why his faith is crucial to the way he does his job and lives his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today's episode of Sports Spectrums podcast with Jeff Allen is presented by Compassion International and their fill the stadium initiative. |
| 0:09.5 | Due to COVID-19, 70,000 kids and their families in compassion programs have been stuck without a sponsorship and need your urgent support. |
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| 0:40.5 | Check out fill the stadium.com today and help us release these children and their family |
| 0:45.2 | from poverty. |
| 0:46.5 | Fillvestadium.com. |
| 1:00.8 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 1:04.6 | Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romano. |
| 1:08.8 | And we're so glad to have you here joining us on the show today. |
| 1:10.7 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. I'm Jason Romano, |
| 1:11.9 | and we got a great conversation coming up with Jeff Allen. He is the director of sports medicine |
| 1:17.5 | at the University of Alabama, six. Count him six national championships since he arrived |
| 1:24.4 | at Alabama in 2007. It's college football time. |
| 1:29.0 | It's wonderful to have football back, |
| 1:30.9 | and it's going to be great to have this conversation with Jeff Allen |
| 1:33.8 | to take us inside what it takes to be the head athletic football trainer |
| 1:38.4 | for the University of Alabama. |
| 1:40.6 | Before we get to that conversation, |
| 1:42.0 | I just want to tell you a little bit about Sports Spectrum and our brand new football show, it's called Sports Spectrum's Weekly Slant. |
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