Christa Dietzen, 2-time Olympic USA Women's Volleyball Team Captain (Pt 2)
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Episode 179
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 2 of our two-part podcast, Christa shares the emotional journey of her first Olympic experience in London at the 2012 games, returning to the 2016 games in Rio, retiring at the age of 29 and how her platform has led her to sharing and speaking about her faith testimony to others.
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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 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our conversation with two-time Olympic USA Women's Volleyball. |
| 0:27.1 | Team captain Krista Dietzen is brought to you by Compassion International. |
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| 0:52.2 | Krista Dietzen, the two-time Olympic USA Women's Volleyball Team Captain is our guest here |
| 0:57.3 | on part two on the Sports Spectrum podcast, part two of our conversation with Krista. |
| 1:02.4 | Yesterday you heard her journey to volleyball, how she became a volleyball player, fell in love |
| 1:07.8 | with the sport and her time in college, winning two national titles |
| 1:11.8 | at Penn State with the Nittany Lions, Big Ten player of the year in 2007. And then we just |
| 1:17.5 | talk about her journey to becoming an Olympic volleyball player. It's a really great story and how |
| 1:24.2 | volleyball really intersects with how she became a follower of Jesus Christ. |
| 1:29.2 | So if you go back and listen to part one, that'll set you up for today, part two of our |
| 1:33.9 | conversation with Krista. |
| 1:35.7 | And she's a two-time Olympian played in the 2012 Olympics and won a silver medal there. |
| 1:41.5 | And then the 2016 Olympics where they won the bronze medal. |
| 1:46.0 | And on part two, we talked to Krista just about how hard it is to become an Olympian and identity |
| 1:52.8 | and purpose and how difficult it is. |
| 1:55.9 | We hear this a lot in sports identity, being identified as an athlete as a volleyball player as a sports you know |
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