Emily Westerberg Love - Arizona State Basketball Hall of Famer

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🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 431

Emily Westerberg Love is a former basketball player with the Arizona State Sun Devils. In high school at Central Valley in Oregon, Emily was the 2003 Gatorade Player of the Year. During her time in college, she led ASU to three NCAA Tournament appearances including the Elite Eight in 2007.

She is the first Arizona State player to ever earn All-Pac 10 honors three times. In 2007, she was selected in the third round of the WNBA Draft but passed on a pro career to focus on starting a family. In 2017, she was named to the Arizona State Sports Hall of Fame.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Emily about her successful college career and why she bypassed pursuing a pro career. We also talk about apologetics, defending her faith, dealing with fear and anxiety, the crisis of faith she had in college and her awesome story of adoption.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:19.8	Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum.
0:22.0	I am Jason Romano.
0:23.1	Great to have you joining us here on the show today.
0:25.5	We are so excited for our guest, Emily Westerberg, Love.
0:30.5	And she is a former Arizona State basketball player.
0:33.7	In high school, she was the bomb diggedy, as they say.
0:37.1	2003 Gatorade Player of the year and a state
0:40.3	champion at Central Valley High School in Oregon. And then she goes to Arizona and leads ASU,
0:46.8	Arizona State, to three NCAA tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 appearance in 2005 and
0:54.0	an elite eight appearance in 2007.
0:57.6	She was the first ASU player to ever earn all PAC 10 honors three times and then graduated
1:04.0	from Arizona State in 2007.
1:08.0	Interestingly enough, she was selected in the third round of the 2007 WMBA draft but passed on a pro career.
1:15.5	We talk about that on today's podcast.
1:18.2	She's also a member of the Arizona State Sports Hall of Fame, which I briefly touch on at the very end of the podcast.
1:26.7	But she is someone who's seen a lot, been through a lot, and has a lot to say.
1:30.9	She's a super smart girl.
1:32.7	And I was just so thankful.
1:34.1	She's not a girl.
1:34.7	She's a woman.
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