Christa Dietzen, 2-time Olympic USA Women's Volleyball Team Captain (Pt 1)
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Episode 178
Christa Dietzen is a 2-time Olympic Volleyball player with Team USA. She was the co-captain of the 2012 London team that captured the Silver Medal and the 2016 team that won Bronze.
She was selected to join the U.S. National team roster in May of 2009. Prior to that, she led Penn State University to 2 back-to-back NCAA championships.
The 2007 Big-10 player of the year retired from volleyball following the 2016 Olympics and is now a public speaker, encouraging and sharing her testimony and story to others.
In part one of our 2-part podcast, Christa shares how she came to love volleyball, her time at Penn State and how her drive toward becoming an Olympian actually led her to faith in Christ.
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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. |
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| 1:14.7 | Today's guest on the podcast, two-time Olympic USA Women's Volleyball team captain Krista Dietzen joins us here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 1:21.7 | Krista, two-time Olympian, was a silver medalist in 2012 and a bronze medalist in 2016. |
| 1:26.0 | And on this episode, this is part one of a two-part podcast. |
| 1:28.9 | We talked to her about her journey to volleyball, how she became a volleyball player and fell in love with the sport and then we talk about her |
| 1:33.8 | college career which was pretty good she was a two-time national title winner at penn |
| 1:39.4 | state played volleyball there all four years starting as a freshman was the Big Ten player of the year in 2007, |
| 1:46.6 | and just had some great success as a nitty line at Penn State. |
| 1:51.1 | And then we hear her journey to the Olympics. |
| 1:54.2 | I always wonder, as just a sports fan in general, how does one become an Olympian? |
| 1:59.7 | Are you just named to the team? Do you have to do |
| 2:01.5 | tryouts? Are you just kind of expected because you're the best player that you're automatically on |
| 2:06.3 | the team? What does that look like? So I asked Krista how she became an Olympian and her story's |
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