Caz McCaslin, Founder of Upward Basketball (Youth Sports) - Episode 62

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

With a vision to create the best sports experience possible for every child, Caz McCaslin founded Upward Unlimited, the world's largest Christian sport league for young athletes. In 1995, Upward Unlimited launched Upward Sports and has grown under McCaslin's leadership and guidance from several hundred children playing in seven church basketball leagues to more than half a million children playing in 2,500 multi-sport clinics, camps, academies and leagues in 47 states.

Caz also has released a new book titled "Coach Em Up - Reclaiming Sports For the Benefit of the Athlete."

On this episode, we talk to Caz about starting Upward Basketball, why youth sports are broken, and how the founder of the game of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, actually invented basketball to be a ministry, much like Upward.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast, where faith and sports
0:08.3	and sports collide.
0:09.4	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:12.3	This is episode number 62 of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:16.6	Hi, everyone.
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0:18.0	My name is Jason Romano.
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0:55.9	on the intersection of sports and faith. Today's guest, his name is Kaz McCaslin. Now, he is the
1:05.0	founder and president of Upward Sports. Some of you who listen here might be aware of the Upward Basketball program. I know our church
1:13.0	here in Bristol, Connecticut has been part of the Upward Basketball family for 14 years now. It's a
1:19.8	wonderful program. And Kaz is the guy who founded it back in 1995. And on this episode of the
1:25.5	podcast, we talk a lot about youth sports and just the culture
1:29.6	of youth sports, where we are today as far as how we approach youth sports, being a parent of kids,
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