Greg Tonagel, Indiana Wesleyan Men's Basketball Coach
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast we throw it back to February 2018 and a conversation we had with 3-time NAIA Division II National Champion coach Greg Tonagel of Indiana Wesleyan.
Coach Tonagel just finished his 14th season as the head coach of the Wildcats and is a 3-time NABC/NAIA Division II National Coach of the Year.
On this throwback edition of the podcast, we talk to Coach Tonagel about discipleship in his program and teaching his players the "I am Third" model, Jesus first, others second, ourselves third.
You can listen to the entire interview with Coach Tonagel from Episode 84 by searching on this podcast app or by clicking on our website here.
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | Welcome everyone to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.4 | Today we look back to February 2018, episode number 84 of the podcast with Greg Tonigal. |
| 0:33.7 | He is the men's basketball coach at Indiana Wesleyan University in Indiana. |
| 0:38.3 | He's a three-time NAA Division II National Championship Coach, 2014, 2016, and 2018. |
| 0:48.3 | He's also a three-time national coach of the year in the NABC, N Division 2 in 2014, 2016, 2018, and a six-time |
| 0:59.2 | Crossroads League coach of the year. Listen to this winning percentage. 330 wins, 91 losses, |
| 1:07.0 | 784 percentage, the all-time winningest coach at Indiana Wesleyan. |
| 1:12.9 | And it was interesting because I didn't know a lot about him. |
| 1:16.2 | I was introduced to him by a couple of people who said, you need to have Greg Tonigal |
| 1:20.3 | on your podcast. |
| 1:21.7 | I didn't know who Greg was, but I'm glad I got to interview him, and I'm glad we got to know |
| 1:27.1 | him. |
| 1:29.1 | And they have this thing that Indiana Wesleyan does and it's it's a really neat thing because I had the opportunity to go |
| 1:33.6 | speak to his team and to the chapel services at Indiana Wesleyan in the fall of 2018 |
| 1:40.1 | and see what we talked about in this podcast come to life. |
| 1:46.0 | And the big thing for me is their motto, which is I am third. |
| 1:52.0 | And what does it mean to be third? |
| 1:54.2 | So we asked Coach Tonigal about that on the podcast. |
| 1:57.9 | We're going to play a snippet of his answer here for you right now. |
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