Nick Mingione - Kentucky baseball coach on a historic 2024 season and surrendering to Jesus
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Nick Mingione became the head baseball coach at the University of Kentucky in June 2016. Prior to his time with the Wildcats, he was an assistant coach at Mississippi State from 2009-16.
In 2017, Mingione’s first season in Lexington, he led the program to the NCAA Super Regionals for the first time ever, and was named SEC and National Coach of the Year. In 2024, he led the Wildcats to a historic season, achieving their first ever berth at the NCAA College World Series.
On this episode of the podcast, Coach Mingione reflects on the historical season of Kentucky baseball and how surrendering to God and relying on His strength transformed his coaching approach. He also shares what it was like watching his son Reeves accept Jesus and get baptized.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, we are welcoming back to the show, Kentucky head baseball coach, Nick Mingione. |
| 0:08.9 | We just saw basically living out your faith as a coach in the baseball world put on full display this past spring into the early part of summer, really into June, with Nick |
| 0:23.2 | Mingeone, Kentucky head baseball coach when they made their first ever college world series |
| 0:28.5 | appearance. They finished 46 and 16. An amazing season. He was the Dick Houser Award winner and the |
| 0:36.1 | National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association |
| 0:38.6 | Coach of the Year. |
| 0:40.5 | I can't wait for you to hear Nick Mingione kind of reflect and look back at what the Lord |
| 0:45.5 | did in his life this past season. |
| 0:49.2 | It's awesome. |
| 0:50.3 | Can't wait for you to hear more from Nick Mingion, Kentucky Head Baseball Coach. It's coming up in just a moment here on the show. I also can't wait for you to hear more from Nick Mingione, Kentucky head baseball coach. |
| 0:54.7 | It's coming up in just a moment here on the show. |
| 0:57.2 | I also can't wait for you to hear more about what's happening November 5th. |
| 1:01.1 | Now, I can't tell you, but we've been sharing the last few episodes that something big is coming your way, a big announcement on November 5th, 2004. And all I'm doing is having you kind of put that |
| 1:14.2 | down in your calendar to make sure you check back to Sports Spectrum on November 5th, because we |
| 1:19.0 | have some big news coming your way. I would venture to even say it's huge news coming your |
| 1:26.3 | way with sports spectrum. |
| 1:27.7 | So I can't wait to tell you more about that. |
| 1:29.9 | Make sure you stay tuned. |
| 1:31.2 | That's two weeks from today, November 5th, and it has nothing to do with the election. |
| 1:36.7 | Thank God. |
| 1:37.5 | It's got actually a lot to do with sports spectrum and moving this into a new venture. |
| 1:44.3 | That's all I'm going to say. |
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