Kevin O'Brien, Lipscomb Women's Soccer Coach
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🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Episode 430
Kevin O'Brien is the head coach of the Lipscomb University women's soccer team. He was named to the position in 2012 and has led the Lady Bisons to their first NCAA tournament appearances in 2018 and again in 2019.
The 2016 ASUN Coach of the Year began his soccer journey as a player leading the College of Charleston to two NCAA post season appearances, multiple top-20 rankings, the Elite 8 and was a two-time All-Conference selection and All-South Region player. Following his collegiate career, he played professionally (USL) for 8 years with the Charleston Battery and Charlotte Eagles.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Kevin about the success he's had with Lipscomb, leading from the perspective of Christ, breaking old habits and the importance of developing relationship depth.
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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. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. It is our last podcast for 2019. |
| 0:28.1 | Happy New Year's Eve heading into New Year's Day in 2020. And today's guest on the podcast, |
| 0:34.3 | we're really excited to bring to you our first women's soccer coach to the |
| 0:39.1 | podcast. And he is Kevin O'Brien. He is the Lipscomb women's soccer coach. Came to the team around |
| 0:44.8 | eight years ago and he's been doing great things with this program. In 2018, they won their first |
| 0:51.9 | ever Atlantic Sun tournament championship. |
| 0:55.0 | And then this past fall in 2019, they repeated as Atlantic Sun tournament champions. |
| 1:02.1 | And we talk about that with Coach Kevin, just the idea of achievement and winning the tournament title. |
| 1:07.1 | But Kevin talked about how the last few years have been a culmination for him on trying |
| 1:12.4 | to build a program that is an intentional faith-based soccer program at the highest level, |
| 1:18.3 | at Division I in college. And Kevin's doing a great job with that and talks a little bit about |
| 1:23.6 | the struggles of getting to that point and wrapping that identity up not in soccer |
| 1:28.7 | but in something greater meaning his faith in Jesus Christ he has a great testimony as well |
| 1:34.9 | Kevin does of coming to the Lord in his early 20s and really how that changed everything for him |
| 1:41.0 | and how he goes about soccer has he he goes about life, and certainly how he |
| 1:45.7 | goes about coaching. |
| 1:47.6 | And he also talked at the end of the podcast about developing relational depth. |
| 1:52.4 | That's a quote from him, developing relational depth in his walk with the Lord and in his |
| 1:58.1 | journey as a coach. |
| 2:00.1 | He's the real deal. |
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