Ryan Folmar - Oral Roberts head baseball coach on identity, gratitude and keeping his cup filled
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Folmar has been the head baseball coach at Oral Roberts University since 2013. In 2023, he was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Coach of the Year after leading his team to a 52-14 record and a berth in the 2023 College World Series.
As a player, Folmar excelled at Oklahoma State University from 1994-1997 and helped his team to the 1996 College World Series his junior year. He was selected in the 46th round of the 1993 MLB Draft by the Angels but chose to attend college in Stillwater.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Ryan Folmar about the 2023 College World Series berth, not riding the emotions, finding his identity in Christ and the importance of gratitude within his program.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano. We got a great podcast today. How about a guy who took his team to the College World Series this year? Ryan Fulmer is our guest. He's the head baseball coach at Oral Roberts University, O'RU. He was actually a player back in the day with Oklahoma State and helped his team to the 96 college world series. And then how about this? 27 years later, he leads his program this year to |
| 0:27.6 | historical levels, 52 and 14 record, NCAA regional and super regional champions and reaching their first college world series, |
| 0:39.8 | his first college world series as a coach |
| 0:41.9 | and their first one with ORU since the late 70s. |
| 0:45.4 | What a year this was for Oral Roberts. |
| 0:48.0 | And when I saw the kind of journey that they were going on this year, |
| 0:51.3 | I said, we're going to get their coach Ryan Falmer on. |
| 0:53.7 | We may even get a few of the players on down the road as well, but Ryan Fulmer |
| 0:57.7 | was fantastic in talking about the journey that this team went on this year and the uniqueness |
| 1:04.3 | of Orell Roberts in keeping Christ at the center. You're going to love this conversation with |
| 1:10.0 | Ryan Fulmer. It's coming up in just a moment. First, I want to tell you about our friends at the center. You're going to love this conversation with Ryan Fulmer. It's coming up in just a |
| 1:11.8 | moment. First, I want to tell you about our friends at Watermission. Check out watermission.org |
| 1:16.6 | slash join the team. That's the website, watermission.org slash join the team. They do such |
| 1:22.9 | great work. Our friend Scott Leimbrink has been on this podcast. He has his own podcast with Sports Spectrum |
| 1:28.4 | called Get In the Game. He's an ambassador for Water Mission and he knows all about, we know all about |
| 1:35.8 | what Water Mission is all about bringing clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene solutions to people |
| 1:41.7 | in developing to countries and disaster areas. This is a ministry |
| 1:45.8 | to get behind. This is a ministry that my wife and I sew into every single month because we believe |
| 1:50.7 | it's the basic necessity, right? Clean water. How can people go without simple things like clean water? |
| 1:57.1 | We take that for granted here in the U.S. but there are people all around the world who do not |
| 2:02.0 | have clean water. We'll step in Water Mission who is Christ centered and wants to use the idea of |
| 2:08.2 | sharing the gospel, but ultimately pointing people to Jesus by giving them clean water. |
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