Maria Taylor, ESPN Announcer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today we look back to July of 2018, Episode 132 of the podcast with ESPN announcer Maria Taylor.
Maria is becoming a household name on sports broadcasts. She has been an ESPN host and reporter covering college football’s National Championship game, college basketball, the NFL Draft, the NBA Combine, the NBA Draft, the ESPYs and College Gameday.
A graduate of the University of Georgia in 2009, Taylor played basketball as well as making All-SEC honors in volleyball for the Lady Bulldogs.
Her passion to serve the Lord and give back culminated in 2014 with her co-founding the Winning Edge Leadership Academy. The Academy provides a place where college student and young professionals, particularly women and minority leaders, can get professional development to prepare them for the sports business world.
Maria shares on this THROWBACK edition of the podcast about her walk with the Lord and where that began.
You can listen to the entire interview with Maria Taylor by clicking here or by searching her name on iTunes/Apple podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio App or anywhere podcasts are listened to.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to a throwback edition of Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:24.2 | Great to have you joining us on the program today. |
| 0:26.7 | We're going to look back to July 23, 2018, and with college football, just getting started |
| 0:33.1 | over these last few weeks, perfect time to bring back our interview with Maria Taylor. |
| 0:38.9 | Maria, you've seen her on ESPN. She does a ton of stuff. You saw her at the NFL draft. |
| 0:44.3 | You saw her at the NBA draft. You saw her at the ESP's. And of course, you see her on college game |
| 0:49.7 | day every Saturday on ESPN. And it was back in July of 2018, episode number 132 of the podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | We had a chance to catch up with Maria, talk to her about her crazy journey, becoming a |
| 1:04.6 | household name in the sports broadcasting industry, kind of where that faith journey started |
| 1:10.2 | and how her walk with the Lord |
| 1:12.4 | has guided her through her life, both as a broadcaster and as a child of God. She's really good, |
| 1:20.9 | and this is just a portion of that interview that we did with Maria, and we talk about her faith, |
| 1:28.9 | her walk with Jesus. |
| 1:33.0 | Take a listen to Maria Taylor from ESPN here on Sports Spectrums podcast, |
| 1:35.2 | Throwback Edition on Thursday. |
| 1:42.8 | Where did that begin? |
| 1:47.0 | Tell us about your faith in Jesus and where that kind of took shape for you. Absolutely. I love the intersection of sports and faith, by the way. |
| 1:52.0 | So when I was in school, or before I even got to school, we just, as a family, we didn't go to church every weekend. |
| 1:59.0 | Like usually you're playing AAU. I had older brothers |
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