Greg Tonagel, Indiana Wesleyan Men's Basketball Coach - Episode 84

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Greg Tonagel begins his 13th season at the helm of the Indiana Wesleyan University men’s basketball team in 2017-18.

Tonagel and the Wildcats reached the summit in 2014 and 2016 as the program won two NAIA Division II national championships in three years. Indiana Wesleyan won the 2014 red banner in unprecedented fashion as they became the first team to win all five of their games at the national tournament by double digit. In 2016, Indiana Wesleyan defeated the top two seeds in the tournament to claim the title.

Tonagel is a two-time NABC/NAIA Division II National Coach of the Year.

In his 12 season as a head coach, Tonagel has already led Indiana Wesleyan to two national championships, one Final Four, five Elite Eight finishes, and eight Crossroads League regular season championships, including seven straight from 2009-15.

Perhaps the biggest influence that Tonagel and the staff have had on the program is the work ethic that they have instilled on and off the court. Tonagel’s teams have passion and toughness. Whether it is writing a paper, helping a neighbor or working out in the gym, Tonagel demands commitment and 100-percent effort from each student-athlete.

On this episode of the podcast, Coach Tonagel shares his "March Madness" moment during his playing days at Valparaiso, what basketball means to the state of Indiana, how he incorporates his faith into his coaching, what the motto of being "third" means, and the life verse that has kept him grounded in his faith.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports collide.
0:08.9	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:12.0	This is episode number 84 of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:16.7	Hi, everyone.
0:17.2	Welcome to the show.
0:18.0	My name's Jason Romano.
0:19.4	It is a pleasure to have you joining us wherever you are listening to this podcast, whether it's Apple iTunes, Google Play Stitcher, YouTube, wherever it is. We appreciate you tuning in and checking us out here at the Sports Spectrum podcast. And as always, our content, all of it, is found on sportspectrum.com, where we give you a daily devotional
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0:50.2	content that we give to you and we provide for everyone for free, including this podcast,
0:56.0	including Sportspectrum.com and all the articles and videos there, as well as things like
1:01.4	Football Sunday, where we had 2,000 churches carrying an amazing outreach video for NFL players
1:08.4	sharing their faith. So thank you so much for all that you do to help
1:12.3	support, support spectrum. And we're excited to see what takes place here in 2018. Lots of
1:18.6	exciting things on the horizon. Today's guest, he is Greg Tonigal. He is the Indiana Wesleyan
1:24.4	men's basketball coach. Now, Greg is the two-time NABC, NAA, Division
1:30.9	Two National Coach of the Year. The man can coach. And in 2014 and 2016, the NAA
1:38.5	Division II National Champions were the Indiana Wesleyan basketball team that Greg Tonigal is the men's basketball coach,
1:45.5	the head coach of. He's in his 13th season now. They're in the midst of another successful
1:50.8	season. They're doing pretty well. And he was named the head coach of Indiana Wesleyan in 2005
1:57.5	at the age of 25. I mean, that is so young to become the head coach of a team and leading men that aren't
2:05.0	much younger than yourself.
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