The Incredible Story of ESPN Reporter Lauren Sisler
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Episode 561
Lauren Sisler is a sideline reporter covering college football for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2016 after being named Best Sports Anchor by the Alabama Associated Press in 2014 and 2015. The former Rutgers gymnast also covers SEC football for AL.com in Alabama.
In 2003, while a freshman on a gymnastics scholarship at Rutgers, Sisler unexpectedly lost both of her parents, George and Lesley Sisler, to prescription drug overdoses within hours of each other. Today, Lauren is dedicated to spreading awareness about the dangers of addiction and the devastation it can cause for the addict, their loved ones and the community. She currently serves as a board member for the Addiction Prevention Coalition in Birmingham, Alabama and is on the Speakers Bureau for the Shelby County Drug Free Coalition.
On today's podcast, we talk to Lauren Sisler about being a sideline reporter during the pandemic, getting married and being baptized in 2020, the powerful story of losing her parents to addiction and how she came to the realization that her story could help and encourage others.
Follow Lauren on Twitter: @LaurenSisler
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.2 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason |
| 0:22.7 | Romano. My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. You can email me directly. Jason at |
| 0:28.4 | sports spectrum.com. And today we are presented by IJM, the International Justice Mission, |
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| 1:21.3 | Today on sports spectrum, we welcome Lauren Sistler. She's got an incredible story and she's using her platform and her story |
| 1:30.2 | for a greater purpose. She's an ESPN sideline reporter. You can see her on the weekends during |
| 1:35.7 | college football season reporting from the sidelines various college football games. She also |
| 1:40.9 | covers the SEC for a.L.com and was named the best sports anchor by the Alabama |
| 1:46.7 | Associated Press in 2014 and 2015. She joined ESPN in 2016, and like I said, she's a |
| 1:54.8 | sideline reporter for college football. She also reports on gymnastics as well, which is |
| 2:00.0 | where she got her start in the sports world |
| 2:02.4 | because she was a decorated gymnast in high school in Roanoke, Virginia, and then went to Rutgers |
| 2:07.4 | on a gymnast scholarship in 2003. |
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