Nations of Coaches Mike Lightfoot on coaching, leadership and Jesus
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mike Lightfoot is a former college basketball coach who currently is a regional director with the Nations of Coaches. For 30 years, he was the head coach at Bethel College in Indiana, where led his club to three NAIA Division II national championships and four NCCAA national titles.
Lightfoot was a former player and assistant coach at Bethel College under head coach Homer Drew and took over the head coaching job when Drew left for another position. As a head coach, Mike Lightfoot was a six-time national coach of the year and in 2009 was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame with legendary coach John Wooden.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Mike Lightfoot about his 39 years of coaching, his ministry with Nations of Coaches, the biggest struggle with coaches and why he is guided by his faith in Jesus.
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| 1:52.5 | Welcome. Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast, the intersection of sports and faith. |
| 1:54.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 1:58.2 | Welcome, everyone, to Sports Spectrum. |
| 2:02.7 | We are the intersection of sports and faith. And we're so glad you're tuning into our Sports Spectrum. We are the intersection of sports and faith. And we're so glad you're tuning into our Sports Spectrum podcast today. We got a great conversation coming up. Tons of |
| 2:08.7 | wisdom from one of the legendary NAA-AIA college basketball coaches, Mike Lightfoot. Before we get |
| 2:15.6 | to that conversation, a couple ways you can get in touch with |
| 2:18.5 | us. First, please do check out our website each and every day, updated content, articles, |
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