Former Stanford QB Isaiah Sanders on his faith in Jesus and winning college football's Wuerffel Trophy
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Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Quarterback Isaiah Sanders just finished his college football career at Stanford. A sixth-year senior from Aurora, Colorado, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 2019 with a BS in Systems Engineering, and later earned a MS in Management Science and Engineering. During that time, he was named a member of the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, was named a Mountain West Conference Scholar-Athlete, and in 2019 was a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and a finalist for the Wuerffel Trophy. In 2020, as a fifth-year senior, Sanders transferred to Stanford and continued on this season for the Cardinal at quarterback.
In 2021, it was announced on The Home Depot College Football Awards on ESPN that Sanders is the 2021 recipient of the Wuerffel Trophy. At Stanford, he founded the “Adopt-A-Cardinal” program, which pairs a football player or position group with a classroom of grade school students to regularly encourage them, read to them, to assist them with their homework and to help them in any way possible. He participated in the Lockheed Martin Internship in Orlando, was Cadet-in-Charge of FCA, and was the Community Service representative for three years at the Academy. Sanders was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Air Force in April 2020 and was selected as a Human Factors Engineer by the USAF.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Isaiah Sanders about football as a platform to share his faith, serving in the United States Air Force, leading Bible studies with FCA and why his walk with Christ is the guiding light for him to give back to others.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by our new partners Cedarville University, |
| 0:06.7 | one of the leading Christian universities in the country. |
| 0:10.9 | Cedarville is well known for excellent academic programs that equip graduates for lifelong ministry |
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| 1:51.5 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 2:02.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 2:05.3 | And hey, everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrums podcast. |
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