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🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Gary Gilmore has been the head baseball coach at Coastal Carolina University since 1996. He is a nine-time Big South Coach of the Year and has led his team to 18 NCAA Division 1 Regional appearances including 2023.
In 2016, he led Coastal Carolina on an improbable run that saw them win the College World Series and was named National Coach of the Year.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Gary Gilmore about winning a College World Series, his future as a coach, what discipleship looks like, lessons in failure and battling cancer.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up on today's sports spectrum show, Gary Gilmore from Coastal Carolina. |
0:04.9 | He's their head baseball coach, 2016 national champion, 2016 national coach of the year. |
0:12.3 | Currently 25th all-time in coaching wins, 1,335, 18 NCAA Division 1 regional appearances, including one this past season in 2003. |
0:25.1 | He's been coaching at Coastal Carolina since 1996. |
0:29.1 | Gary Gilmore is also battling cancer. |
0:31.5 | Gary Gilmore is also entering his final season as Coastal Carolina's head baseball coach. |
0:37.1 | And this was one of the more impactful conversations that I've had personally all year long on this show. |
0:44.7 | Gary Gilmore has great stories. |
0:46.8 | Wait till you hear the stories that he shares from the 2016 College World Series run. |
0:52.7 | Just mind-blowing stories. but also his cancer battle and what |
0:57.2 | that's been like walking through this new season of life that he's had the last three years |
1:03.1 | since his diagnosis in 2020 and continuing to see baseball as a great platform to impact lives and ultimately to be the best |
1:13.6 | ambassador for Christ that he can be. I'd love this conversation. I want to be buddies with Gary |
1:19.2 | Gilmore. I think you will too after you hear his story here on sports spectrum. First, I want to |
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1:57.6 | water mission is doing it with the gospel in mind. |
2:01.0 | That's their goal, is to preach the gospel. |
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