Betty Wiseman - "Belmont Betty" Former Belmont women's basketball coach on basketball as ministry
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Betty Wiseman has been a part of Belmont University's athletic program for five decades. She graduated from Belmont in 1965 and helped found the women's basketball program at Belmont, one of the first programs now only in the state but in the southeast.
Today on the podcast, we get to meet "Belmont Betty" and hear her powerful story of Christ in her life, starting a women's basketball program at Belmont and why sports is such a great place to live out the Gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? Today on Sports Spectrum, I really enjoyed talking to Belmont Betty. Betty Wiseman, |
| 0:07.9 | longtime Belmont University women's basketball coach. She's been active in Belmont Athletics for five |
| 0:16.5 | decades. She arrived on Belmont's campus in 1961, and she's still pouring into those young |
| 0:24.3 | people and those athletes today in 2003. Belmont Betty is 80 years old and a basketball |
| 0:31.5 | trailblazer. She actually started the basketball program and founded the program in 1968 at Belmont. And she's still there |
| 0:42.0 | today. Not only is she a Belmont Athletics Hall of Famer in 1981, she was inducted into the |
| 0:47.9 | Hall of Fame. She's a Tennessee Hall of Famer in 2004 was inducted into the Tennessee Hall of Fame. There's a lot of wisdom |
| 0:57.2 | in talking to Belmont Betty at 80 years old. And there's something special about talking to someone |
| 1:04.4 | who's lived a lot more life than you, who's loved sports, loves coaching, loves teaching, |
| 1:12.7 | but who sold out for the gospel. |
| 1:18.6 | And I think when you hear the story of Betty Wiseman, otherwise known as Belmont Betty, |
| 1:22.3 | you're going to be encouraged. You're going to want to hang out with her because I know I did. |
| 1:26.6 | When we were finished, I said, I want to come to Nashville and I want to hang out and spend some time with Betty Wiseman |
| 1:27.5 | and just listen to the stories, listen to the wisdom that she pours into so many. |
| 1:33.0 | And she shares a little bit of that today on Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:35.4 | I think you're going to love getting to know Betty Wiseman. |
| 1:37.9 | It's coming up in a moment. |
| 1:39.1 | First, I want to tell you about our friends at athletes in action. |
| 1:42.1 | They are one of the great ministries out there, |
| 1:44.6 | a sports ministry that is making a difference in the lives of college campuses, professional |
| 1:50.6 | locker rooms, countries all across the globe are being affected by athletes in action. And here's |
| 1:57.1 | a chance for you to sew into this ministry. And here's what's happening. |
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