Loyola Marymount basketball coach Stan Johnson on coaching for a greater purpose

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Stan Johnson is the mens basketball coach at Loyola Marymount University in California. Born in Liberia, West Africa, Stan played his college basketball at Southern Utah and Bemidji State before embarking on a coaching career that would take him to such schools as Cal State Northridge, Utah, Drake, Arizona State and Marquette.

On March 20, 2020, he was named Loyola Marymount's head basketball coach, his first head coaching job. In his first season, he led his team to a 13-9 record and the Lions finished in the top three of the West Coast Conference standings for the first time since 2005-06 and posted a winning record in the WCC for the first time since 2011-12.

Today on the podcast, we talk to coach Stan Johnson about his faith in Christ, how it guides him as a coach, what leadership looks like to him and staying the course on the journey.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by our newest partner, Operation Christmas Child, a project of the Christian International Relief Organization, Samaritans Purse, the world's largest Christmas project of its kind.
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0:23.1	shoeboxes to children in need in more than 170 countries and territories. And it's delivered
0:30.4	in the hands of children through local churches. Every shoebox gift is an opportunity to share
0:35.6	about Jesus and God's love. So will you join us? Will you join
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0:45.9	online? National Collection Week is coming November 15th through the 22nd. Shoeboxes are
0:52.7	going to be collected across the country at nearly 5,000 drop-off
0:56.1	locations. We want you to come and join Operation Christmas Child.
1:01.1	Visit samaritansperse.org slash OCC.
1:05.4	Samaritansperse.org slash OCC to learn how to pack a shoebox or build one online.
1:12.5	Operation Christmas Child.
1:23.3	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:28.3	Here's your host, former ESPN producer, Jason Romanus.
1:32.3	And welcome everyone to the show.
1:34.3	I am Jason.
1:35.1	This is the Sports Spectrum podcast.
1:37.9	You need to go check out our website, sportspectrum.com, for all of our content.
1:42.0	It's free, and it's available right there at the website.
1:45.2	We're talking about podcasts, devotionals, articles, all available for free at sportspectrum.com.
1:52.9	And we have one fantastic show today with Stan Johnson, Loyola Marymount Head Basketball Coach.
2:00.6	This is a guy who has been through it.
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