Mississippi State softball coach Samantha Ricketts on leadership and coaching for a greater purpose

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Samantha Ricketts is the head softball coach at Mississippi State. She was named to her current position in July 2019 after coaching stops at Wichita State and as an assistant at Mississippi State. In her first season, she became the fastest head coach in program history to reach 20 wins, doing so in 23 games and is the only coach in program history to have her team nationally ranked at some point during her first year.

Prior to coaching, she played softball at Oklahoma University under head coach Patty Gasso. During her time with the Sooners, she was a two time All-American and team captain.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Samantha Ricketts about leadership, serving others, lessons learned at Oklahoma from Patty Gasso, living a faith-filled life, and the importance of Philippians 4:6.

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0:00.0	This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is presented by the new movie American Underdog,
0:06.7	the Kurt Warner story.
0:09.0	Guys, I saw a preview of this movie, and I'm telling you, this is the movie to go see this
0:14.3	holiday season.
0:15.9	Take the family and go check out American Underdog.
0:18.8	And if you know Kurt Warner, two-time MVP, two-time, three-time Super Bowl participant,
0:25.4	won the Super Bowl MVP and certainly won the Super Bowl in Super Bowl 34 when the Rams beat the Titans.
0:31.2	But his story is one of the more improbable, incredible stories that you'd ever imagine
0:36.4	in not only reaching the NFL and having
0:39.0	an opportunity to put on an NFL uniform, but then to excel and to excel all the way to
0:45.1	the pro football Hall of Fame, which he was inducted in a couple years ago.
0:49.2	This is his story, him and his wife's story, and it's a family film.
0:53.9	Like this is a movie you want to take
0:55.3	everybody to see. There's nothing inappropriate. That's what I love about some of these movies
1:00.4	when you're looking to take your kids and your family to go see. There just isn't a lot of good
1:04.9	family films out there with an awesome message. Well, American Underdog is one of those films.
1:10.5	And Zachary Levi from the movie Shazam, he plays Kurt Warner, and he looks just like him.
1:16.2	It's really crazy how much of a spitting image he is of a younger Kurt Warner.
1:22.1	So got to see a preview.
1:24.1	Highly recommend.
1:25.2	Go see American Underdog.
1:26.8	It's in theaters Christmas Day. You can't miss Go see American Underdog. It's in theater's Christmas Day. You can't miss it.
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