Kelsey Plum, 2017 Naismith Women's College Basketball Player of the Year

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🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Episode 450

Kelsey Plum was selected as the number one overall pick in the 2017 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Stars. She shined in college at the University of Washington where he helped the Lady Huskies reach the Final Four in 2016. In 2017, she was the Naismith College Player of the Year and won the John Wooden Award as the top women's college basketball player.

Her 3,527 points scored in her four-year career at Washington is the most all-time in Division One Women's College Basketball.

After being selected by San Antonio, Plum was named to the WNBA All-Rookie Team in 2017 and has played her last two seasons in Las Vegas after the team relocated from Texas to Nevada.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Kelsey about the 2020 Olympics, being the number one overall pick, her prolific career at Washington, feeling the weight of expectations, how her faith in the Lord grew in college and how adversity has helped her re-align in her walk with Christ.

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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.
0:20.1	Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum.
0:21.7	I am Jason Romano.
0:22.7	Great to have you joining us here today on the show.
0:25.3	Excited about our guest, Kelsey Plum.
0:27.9	She was the number one overall pick in the WMBA draft in 2017.
0:34.1	The Naismith College Player of the Year, the best player in college basketball in 2017,
0:40.2	got drafted into the WMBA by the San Antonio Stars.
0:44.9	They then relocated to Las Vegas, where she's currently playing with the Las Vegas Aces.
0:50.9	And Kelsey has a great story.
0:53.4	She really does.
0:54.1	She played a little bit overseas as well in 2017,
0:57.0	2018, in 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey, helped that team win the Turkish League Championship.
1:04.1	This year, she's staying back in the States and preparing for USA basketball and 2020 in Tokyo.
1:12.0	Kelsey's got a great story of faith,
1:13.7	a great story of basketball,
1:15.4	and a great story of persevering.
1:17.7	She had a lot of success and was on top of the world
1:21.0	two, three years ago in college
1:23.0	at the University of Washington and hit a little bump in the road.
1:27.3	And we talk about that bump and kind of
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