Blake Mazza, Washington State Kicker

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Episode 444

Blake Mazza just finished his redshirt sophomore season as the kicker for the Washington State football team. The Plano, Texas native was one of the top kickers in the country and became the first kicker in Washington State football history to be a finalist for the Lou Groza award for college football's top kicker.

After redshirting his freshman season at the University of Arkansas, Mazza transferred to Washington State and was their kicker in 2018 as a redshirt freshman. In 2019, he was awesome, hitting on 20 of 21 field goals and finishing with 115 points. He was named first team All-Pac 12 in 2019 for his efforts.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Blake about his 2019 season, growing up a pastor's kid, leading ministry in college at Washington State and how he stays grounded in his faith during a long season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Hi, everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano.
0:23.1	It's great to have you joining us here today on the show. Really excited about our conversation with
0:28.1	Blake Maza. He is a kicker with Washington State. Just finished his red shirt sophomore season from
0:36.0	Plano, Texas.
0:44.3	This kid had a dynamite 2019 year to the point where he was a finalist, one of the top three kickers in the country and a finalist for the Lou Groza Award for the nation's
0:50.0	top kicker in college football.
0:52.3	The first kicker ever in Washington State history to earn that distinction and become a
0:59.1	finalist for the Lou Groza Award in 2019.
1:02.4	He was an all-Pack 12 first team selection and had a great season this year kicking,
1:08.4	this past year kicking for Washington State, 20 of 21 on field goal
1:12.3	attempts, 55 p-A-t, and 115 points on the season for Blake Mazzah.
1:18.9	But even more than being a really good kicker, this guy loves the Lord.
1:23.7	And when you go to his Twitter page, you see his Twitter handle at Blake Mazzah B-L-A-K-E-Mazza, M-A-Z-A.
1:31.5	The very first thing you'll see is this. It says, wholeheartedly pursuing Christ with the hashtag
1:38.2	A-O-1, audience of one. Blake has a really good story. He's a P-K., a preacher's kid, a pastor's kid, grew up in the church,
1:48.3	but has found a calling on his life since pretty much high school to pursue football,
1:55.2	and football basically being his ministry to share the gospel.
1:59.6	Blake Mazaz has got a great story.
2:01.2	Take a listen to it right here, right now on Sports Spectrum.
2:10.9	Blake, welcome to Sports Spectrum.
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