Rapolas Ivanauskas, Colgate Men's Basketball Player

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Episode 396

Rapolas Ivanuaskas plays college basketball for Colgate University. Last year, he was named the 2018-19 Patriot League Player of the Year and helped his team to their first NCAA Tournament berth in 23 years.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Rapolas speaks five languages including English, French, Spanish and Russian. Prior to arriving at Colgate, Rapolas spent two seasons at the Big Ten's Northwestern. In high school, he was ranked No. 89 on Rivals.com's Class of 2016 ranking.

In high school, he was named the Mid-Suburban West Conference Player of the Year at Barrington (Ill.) High School and led the Broncos to the tea's first league title since 1977.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Rapolas about the upcoming 2019-2020, living up to expectations, coming to faith in Christ in 2017 at Northwestern, why he leaned on his faith during a difficult NCAA Tournament experience, and how he now wants to use his platform to love God and love others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of Sports Spectrums podcast is brought to you by Compassion International,
0:24.6	the most trusted child development ministry in the world.
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1:07.1	I want to encourage you to check out the website, Compassion.com slash sports spectrum.
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1:20.8	Really excited to welcome Rappalus Ivanoskis to the Sports Spectrum podcast. Rappalus plays
1:27.3	college basketball at Colgate University,
1:30.0	and he's pretty good at it. In 2018, 2019, Rapp was the Patriot League player of the year
1:37.6	in leading Colgate to the Patriot League championship and a trip to the NCAA tournament, the big dance.
1:46.0	And they did everything they could in their first round matchup with Tennessee,
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