Donnell Jones, Maryland Terrapins Character Coach
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Episode 340
Donnell Jones is the character coach for the University of Maryland Men's Basketball and Football teams. He's also the chaplain for the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the lead pastor of Grace Covenant Church in Washington D.C.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Donnell about his involvement with the Nations of Coaches, wearing the different hats of husband, dad, character coach, chaplain and lead pastor, his powerful story of crying out to God in his lowest point and how he was able to reconcile with the son he had never met.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
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| 0:57.4 | Today on the podcast, we welcome Donnell Jones to the show. |
| 1:01.3 | Donnell is serving currently as the lead pastor at Grace Covenant Church in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:07.8 | He's also the character coach for the University of Maryland men's basketball team |
| 1:12.9 | as well as their football team. And a third hat he wears. He's the chaplain for the NABC, the National |
| 1:21.3 | Association of Basketball coaches. He's a husband. He's a dad. He's a grandfather. He's also a pretty cool guy. And we caught up with Donnell at a one day, I guess you call it a summit put on by the Nations of Coaches. And if you don't remember that interview we did with Tommy Kyle from the Nations of Coaches back in December of last year, |
| 1:46.2 | the Nations of Coaches are doing amazing things in equipping coaches in college basketball |
| 1:52.8 | and developing them fully on and off the court and really bring the spiritual element back |
| 1:59.5 | into the game of basketball through character training |
| 2:02.9 | and mentoring of the individual players and coaches, training in life skills, leadership development, |
| 2:09.3 | and all being done under the umbrella of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. |
| 2:14.7 | So they're doing great things in the college basketball world. |
| 2:19.2 | And Donnell Jones was a keynote speaker at that conference, that summit that day. |
| 2:24.5 | And Donnell also is, as I mentioned, a character coach for the University of Maryland men's |
| 2:30.4 | basketball and football teams through the nations of coaches. |
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