Janie Reed, USA Softball Player
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 246
Janie Reed is a member of Team USA softball's 2019 Women's National Team. She played her college softball at the University of Oregon, where she was an NFCA All-American 3 straight years as well as First Team All-Pac-12.
In 2018, she represented Team USA in the WBSC Women's World Championship, where she won a Gold Medal, hitting .360 (9-for-25) with 1 HR, 6 RBI and 7 runs scored, helping America qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Janie also was part of a group of people who started a ministry called "Church on the Dirt,"where as Vice President, she helps merge the worlds of faith and athletics nationally, by sharing the love and presence of Christ to coaches, families, and athletes when they are unable to attend church.
On this episode of the podcast, Janie Reed shares her vision for Church on the Dirt, why she wanted to bring Jesus to the field, her experience as a chaplain in Oklahoma, playing for Team USA in Japan and being a part of a team that was able to clinch a spot in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Married to professional baseball player Jake Reed, Janie appeared with her husband on Episode 91 of the podcast, which you can listen to 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. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with |
| 0:22.7 | Team USA softball player Jeannie Reid is brought to you by Compassion International. $38 a month |
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| 1:03.6 | Today's guest on the podcast is Jamie Reed, Team USA softball player. |
| 1:08.6 | Jamie was actually a guest on this podcast back in March of 2018 with her husband, |
| 1:14.5 | Jake Reed. Jake is a pitcher in the Minnesota Twins organization, reached AAA last year with the |
| 1:21.5 | twins, hopefully gets to the big leagues in 2019, God willing. So Janie is the wife of a professional baseball player. |
| 1:29.2 | She's also pretty good softball player. |
| 1:31.8 | And Janie, just a couple of weeks ago, January 7, 2019, was named to Team USA's 2019 |
| 1:38.9 | national team, which is pretty cool. |
| 1:41.6 | And she'll compete and potentially be a part of a team in 2020 that gets |
| 1:46.6 | to compete in the Olympics, softball returning to the Summer Olympics in Japan. And that's an exciting |
| 1:52.4 | thing to think about as well. And Janie, a lot's going on just in the last year that we've talked to |
| 1:58.8 | her. She was an assistant coach this past season with the |
| 2:02.3 | Oklahoma Sooners softball team and sort of played the role of team chaplain, which we'll talk about |
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