Chris Young, Oklahoma State Women's Tennis Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode 342
Chris Young is entering his 11th year as the Director of Tennis at Oklahoma State. He's also the head women's tennis coach, having led his team for eight straight years into the NCAA Tournament. He's led OSU to the National Championship game in 2016, the Elite Eight in 2017 and the Sweet Sixteen in four of the past 5 seasons.
In 2019, Oklahoma State went all the way to the Super Regionals of the NCAA Tournament before losing to No. 1 North Carolina.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Chris about walking the walk of faith as a tennis coach, the tough challenges that come in being a college coach, how his faith has been tested in helping his wife through a health scare, and how he stays fed in his walk with God as a coach.
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| 1:38.5 | Today on the show, we welcome Chris Young. He is the director of tennis for Oklahoma State and also their women's |
| 1:46.0 | tennis coach just finished his 10th year at Oklahoma State. In 2019, Chris took his squad all |
| 1:52.8 | the way to the super regionals of the NCAA tournament before losing to number one, North |
| 1:57.8 | Carolina. The team has made eight straight trips to the NCAA tournament and was the national |
| 2:03.1 | runner-up in 2016, making it all the way to the national championship game. |
| 2:08.6 | In 2017, they made the elite eight and have been in the sweet 16, four of the last five |
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