Kyle Mangas - 2021 NAIA Basketball Player of the Year
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🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Kyle Mangas just finished his college basketball career after playing four seasons with Indiana Wesleyan University. His career saw numerous awards including back-to-back NAIA National Player of the Year honors in 2020 and 2021, as well as winning the Bevo Francis Award in 2020, recognizing the top small college basketball player in the United States for a given season.
The four-time NAIA All-American was a member of the 2018 Indiana Wesleyan squad that won the NAIA Division II championship. This past season, he led IWU to a 30-3 record and averaged an NAIA best 29.5 ppg.
On today's podcast, we talk to Kyle about his incredible college basketball career, what it means to be "third," how his faith in Christ has helped guide him and how he has grown into a leader during his time at IWU.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of Sports Spectrum with Kyle Mangus, the two-time N-A-I-A Division II Player of the Year |
| 0:06.4 | from Indiana Wesleyan is brought to you by Compassion International, the most trusted child |
| 0:11.9 | development ministry in the world. |
| 0:13.7 | And compassion is all about releasing kids from poverty. |
| 0:17.8 | And with the pandemic, man, that just left so many kids in their families in really |
| 0:22.4 | desperate need of help. And what happened was compassion, along with their pro-athlete friends, |
| 0:29.1 | decided to stand in the gap for these kids that otherwise would not get sponsored. You see, |
| 0:33.7 | normally compassion sponsors a lot of kids each year, close to 70,000 through concerts and |
| 0:40.1 | large events and venues and all of that was taken away because of the pandemic. |
| 0:45.0 | So what happened was they decided to stand in that gap. |
| 0:48.2 | Let's figure out a way to help release 70,000 kids and their family from poverty |
| 0:54.7 | in the midst of this pandemic. |
| 0:56.6 | And so we came up with Fill the Stadium. |
| 0:58.9 | The Fill the Stadium initiative, fillthestadium.com. |
| 1:02.6 | And our goal is to feed and release 70,000 kids from poverty |
| 1:07.5 | by providing them with food, education, medical care, vocational training. |
| 1:12.4 | It's all done in Jesus' name. |
| 1:14.9 | And we're almost there. |
| 1:16.3 | 50,000 or so kids have been released from poverty during this Fill the Stadium initiative. |
| 1:22.0 | But there's still more to go. |
| 1:23.2 | We still got about 20,000 kids and their families that are in desperate need of help. |
| 1:28.1 | Fillthastadium.com to donate, to learn more, and release these kids from poverty. |
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