Shay Knighten - Two-Time Oklahoma Sooners Softball National Champion
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Shay Knighten is a former college softball player with the Oklahoma Sooners. Known as "Big Play Shay" during her time at OU, Knighten won two WCWS National Championships and was the 2017 Big 12 Player of the Year and the 2017 WCWS Most Outstanding Player. In her four seasons with the Sooners, Knighten hit .360 with 42 home runs and was a four-time All-Big 12 honoree.
She is currently an assistant softball coach with the University of San Diego and is continuing her pro softball career with the USSSA Pride in the National Pro Fastpitch League.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Shay about her journey to Jesus, the difference between Shay the softball player and Shay the person, why community has been so integral for her after recovering from two knee surgeries, and her memories after hitting clutch home runs of the 2017 and 2019 WCWS.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:13.6 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:17.8 | I am Jason. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:20.7 | Our website, Sports Spectrum.com. Make sure you check that website out every single day with content, including devotionals, different stories and articles. And of course, our podcasts are all there. The Sports Spectrum Podcast Network and our network of shows are all available right there at sportspectrum.com, including this show, |
| 0:38.5 | which is now on four years that we've been doing the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | And we're just so grateful to all of you who have tuned in and checked out our show. |
| 0:48.3 | And Shay Knighton is our guest today. |
| 0:50.0 | And this is a really great conversation with Shay, a two-time women's college world series national champion softball player at Oklahoma back in 2016 and 2017. |
| 1:01.5 | She's coaching now at the University of San Diego, but she's got a wonderful story of faith, family, softball championships, identity, so much to talk about with Shea Knighton. |
| 1:15.4 | Before we get to Shea, want to say thank you to our partners and sponsors, Compassion International. |
| 1:21.2 | And now it's just been about a year since COVID-19 and the pandemic really started to infiltrate its way into our country, but really around |
| 1:30.0 | the world. And with Compassion International, you know about compassion. What they would do is they would |
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| 1:45.9 | and large gatherings. Well, we know what happened in 2020 with those concerts and large gatherings. |
| 1:51.4 | They went bye-bye. They aren't happening at least at this point yet, hopefully soon. |
| 1:58.5 | But what that did was that left 70,000 kids who will potentially get a sponsor |
| 2:03.2 | without a sponsor. And because of COVID-19, these children around the world are living in poverty. |
| 2:09.3 | The issue of food has gone from hunger to starvation. It's dire. It's a really big crisis. |
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