Mir McLean - Virginia women's basketball player on Jesus, Bible studies, overcoming injury and her trip to Morocco
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mir McLean is a women's basketball player at the University of Virginia. She excelled in high school at Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Maryland and signed to play her college basketball at the University of Connecticut where she helped her team to the Final Four in 2021. After being grated a waiver of immediate eligibility by the NCAA, McLean transferred to Virginia and played in 11 games in 2021-22.
In 2022-23, she ranked third in the ACC with 9.6 rebounds per game and was named to the All-ACC Academic Team. Her season ended in January against NC State when she suffered a knee injury.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Mir McLean about overcoming injuries, trusting in God to give her patience, her summer 2023 overseas trip to Morocco, learning Arabic and her excitement in returning to the basketball court.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, we're going to be talking to Mir McLean. |
| 0:04.7 | She is with the Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team. |
| 0:08.9 | She is a fascinating young lady. |
| 0:11.5 | This is a woman who started her college career at Yukon. |
| 0:15.1 | So she clearly knows the game of basketball if she's on the Yukon women's basketball team. |
| 0:20.5 | And then she pivoted and transferred over to Virginia. |
| 0:23.0 | And she played pretty well last season up until January 8th. |
| 0:28.2 | She was averaging a double double, 12.2 points a game, 9.6 rebounds, and then suffered a |
| 0:34.0 | season-ending knee injury against NC State on January 8th. |
| 0:38.7 | That's not just where this conversation ends, though, because we're going to talk about the |
| 0:42.3 | injury and lessons from the Lord in the adversity that she's had to face. |
| 0:46.7 | But this past summer, she decided to take a trip to Morocco. |
| 0:50.4 | This is a kid who can speak Arabic, pretty fluently,ently Arabic and wanted to go to Morocco and experience that culture and be able to speak the language with the natives there. |
| 1:02.2 | And we talk all about that as well. Her walk with Christ is important to her and she's living it out. |
| 1:08.8 | In fact, she goes even deeper than just saying, I want to live it out. |
| 1:12.1 | She wants to be the hands and feet of Jesus in all walks of her life, not just on the basketball |
| 1:17.8 | court. I think you guys are going to love getting to know Mir McLean from Virginia. It's coming |
| 1:22.8 | up in just a moment here on Sports Spectrum. First, I want to remind you about our friends at |
| 1:27.4 | Water Mission, |
| 1:28.6 | a nonprofit Christian engineering ministry with a goal, a desire to bring clean water, |
| 1:35.0 | safe water, and sanitation and hygiene solutions to those in developing countries in disaster |
| 1:42.1 | areas. People who are struggling right now with just having |
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