Austin Hatch, Former Michigan Wolverines Basketball Player - Abby's Husband
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Episode 298
Austin Hatch is an inspiration. His story has been seen and told by places like ESPN, NBC Nightly News, People Magazine and many others.
On September 1, 2003, at the age of 8, Austin survived a plane crash that took the lives of his mom, sister and brother.
On June 24, 2011, 9 days after making his commitment to play college basketball at the University of Michigan, Austin was the only survivor in a second plane crash that took the lives of his father and his step-mother. Hatch had suffered brain trauma, fractured ribs, a fractured sternum, a fractured hip, two broken collarbones, and holes in his lung. He was also in a six-week-long induced coma. He had to relearn how to walk and talk.
Austin would make a full recovery and return to Michigan in 2014, achieving his dream of playing basketball for the Wolverines.
On this powerful episode of the podcast, we talk to Austin about surviving 2 plane crashes, how he's been able to turn something to tragic into something good, leaning on his faith in God, what coach John Beilein and the Michigan Wolverines has meant to him, and how his recovery after the second plane crash helped him grieve and even more, drew him closer to the Lord.Â
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with Austin Hatch is brought to you by Compassion |
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| 1:41.3 | Today on the podcast, we hear probably the most incredible story that you've ever |
| 1:49.8 | heard on this podcast and we've had a lot of incredible ones and Austin Hatch is a survivor. |
| 1:57.9 | He's a former Michigan Wolverines basketball player and he's Abby's husband, |
| 2:02.8 | as you'll hear at the end of the podcast and describing him. He is a speaker and he works at |
| 2:08.9 | the corporate offices with Domino's. But his story is incredible. Numerous media outlets, |
| 2:16.9 | including the athletic, NBC Nightly News, People |
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