The Incredible Story of Olivia Ancil
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Ancil is a former tennis player at Cedarville University in Ohio. She graduated from Cedarville's School of Nursing in 2019. She was serving as a float nurse at Holland Hospital in Holland, Michigan.
On May 28, 2020, Olivia and her boyfriend Alex Arent were struck by a speeding vehicle going over 70 mph in a 35 mph lane while they were on a walk.
Olivia sustained numerous injuries including a traumatic brain injury, bone fractures, crania nerve III palsy affecting eye movement and vision and a lung contusion. She's fortunate to be alive.
Today on this special episode of the podcast, Olivia shares the details of the accident that almost killed her, the grueling recovery and rehab and how her faith in Jesus has carried her through.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason. So glad that you tuned into our show today. |
| 0:26.9 | And I'm really excited about our guest, Olivia Ansel, and I'll introduce you to Olivia in just a |
| 0:32.2 | second. But before we get to that, I want to tell you a couple places that we want to direct you to. |
| 0:36.3 | The first is our website make |
| 0:37.6 | sure you check that out sportspectrum dot com it has all of our content every podcast every podcast |
| 0:43.4 | in the podcast network as well as articles stories and devotionals all available right there at |
| 0:50.0 | sports spectrum dot com and then you can email me if you have a story idea, a show idea, a guest that you want |
| 0:58.7 | us to interview on the show, you can email me, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 1:04.6 | And that's exactly what happened with our guest today, Olivia Ansel. |
| 1:08.6 | So back in October of 2020, I received an email from a guy named Mark Weinstein, who works |
| 1:16.3 | with Cedarville University. |
| 1:18.3 | He's their executive director of public relations. |
| 1:21.0 | And I've had connections with Cedarville multiple times. |
| 1:25.5 | You know, my buddy Hempbo went to college there, who I worked with at ESPN. And so I'm a big fan of Cedarville multiple times, you know, my buddy Hempbo went to college there, who I worked |
| 1:28.8 | with at ESPN. And so I'm a big fan of Cedarville and certainly the message that they portray at |
| 1:34.0 | their college and glorifying God. And Mark sent me this email telling me the story of Olivia Ansel. |
| 1:42.2 | Olivia actually is now Olivia Arant, A-R-E-N-T. |
| 1:47.3 | But at the time of our taping, she was Olivia Ansel. |
| 1:50.6 | And I'll explain that on the back end of the interview. |
| 1:52.8 | But Olivia is a former Cedarville University tennis player. |
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