Heidi Burge Horton and Heather Burge Quella - Former Virginia Basketball Players
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 567
Heidi Burge Horton and Heather Burge Quella are twin sisters and former pro and college basketball players. Together, they led the University of Virginia to three ACC championships and three straight Women's NCAA Final Four appearances (1990, 91, 92).
Heather was the 1993 ACC Player of the Year and went on to play in the WNBA with the now defunct Sacramento Monarchs. She also played professionally overseas for six years.
Heidi would also go on to play professionally in the WNBA with the Los Angeles Sparks and Washington Mystics as well as overseas.
The Burge sisters were recognized in 1991 by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest female twins. In 2002, Disney released a film on their lives called "Double Teamed."
Today on the podcast, we talk to Heather and Heidi about their journey of basketball and Jesus. Heidi talks about the serious heart condition that she had at 5 months old, and how she and Heather were able to overcome obstacles to reach the highest level of college basketball. They also share how their faith has guided them and what it was like to have a Disney movie made about their lives.
You can read this story on Heather and Heidi from our 1992 edition of Sports Spectrum Magazine here.
For more stories of sports and faith, check out our website http://SportsSpectrum.com
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| 1:13.3 | And today's show is presented by Compassion International, releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. |
| 1:20.2 | And right now with the COVID-19 pandemic, it's disrupted so many around the world. |
| 1:24.6 | And as a result, there are nearly 70,000 children in the Compassion Program |
| 1:29.0 | who are currently unfunded. So here's what compassion has done. They've joined with professional |
| 1:36.7 | athletes with this initiative called fill the stadium to stand in the gap by providing food, |
| 1:42.3 | medical care, and support for those 70,000 children. |
| 1:46.3 | That's a stadium's worth of children. An average NFL stadium is 70,000 people. And we're |
| 1:52.2 | talking about 70,000 children. And $500 provides each child with a year, a year of food, hygiene |
| 2:00.1 | kits, medical care, child protection, family support, |
| 2:03.6 | 500 bucks. And I heard somebody say, I thought this was a great idea. Imagine if you're a part of a |
| 2:08.6 | little league team or part of a, you know, of a school program. And you got 20 kids or 20 people |
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