Lyza Bosselmann - Washington Spirit NWSL Goal Keeper on peace, trust and finding a foundation in Christ
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lyza Bosselmann is a professional soccer player with the Washington Spirit in the NWSL. In college at Gonzaga, she was the WCC Goalkeeper of the Year in 2022-23 and an All-WCC First-Team selection.
Over four years at Gonzaga, she allowed the fewest number of goals (47) in program history and was selected 28th overall in the 2023 NWSL College Draft by the Spirit.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Lyza Bosselmann about her soccer journey, her foundation in Christ, getting engaged to a pro baseball player and finding peace in her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on sports spectrum, we're going to turn to the world of soccer. |
| 0:04.4 | Liza Bostleman is our guest today. She was the goalkeeper of the year in the West Coast |
| 0:09.9 | Conference in 2022 to 2023 at Gonzaga. She was an all WCC first team member, 10 shutouts, |
| 0:19.2 | and she's allowed the fewest goals in program history during her |
| 0:23.3 | time at Gonzaga and then selected 28th overall in the 2023 NWSL college draft by the Washington |
| 0:32.4 | spirit. And now she's a professional goalkeeper with that team in Washington. |
| 0:38.2 | She's backing up Aubrey Kingsbury. |
| 0:40.1 | If you remember Aubrey, she was on the podcast last year. |
| 0:44.1 | Right before the World Cup, Aubrey was one of the goaltenders for Team USA in the World Cup. |
| 0:48.5 | So Liza, our guest today, got to learn from one of the best last year in Aubrey. |
| 0:55.6 | In this past December, |
| 1:02.9 | she got engaged. She's going to be marrying a pro baseball pitcher, Brody Jesse, who is a pitcher in the professional ranks in the minor leagues. So this would be a really interesting conversation |
| 1:08.4 | talking about Liza being a professional soccer player at a young |
| 1:12.8 | age 22 and her future husband Brody also a professional player in his young early 20s in the |
| 1:21.2 | world of baseball. So really interesting dynamic here on keeping Christ at the center, growing |
| 1:26.7 | in a relationship with the Lord, |
| 1:28.2 | in a relationship with each other, being a pro athlete. I mean, what a whirlwind 2023 for Liza |
| 1:33.4 | Bosselman. So this is a lot of fun and a treat to get to talk to her here on Sports |
| 1:38.0 | Spectrum. It's coming up in just a moment. First, I want to tell you about our Sports Spectrum |
| 1:41.9 | magazine. You can go to Sportspectrum.com right now and subscribe. |
| 1:46.1 | It's faith-filled. |
| 1:47.2 | It's family-friendly. |
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