Tommy Kyle, Executive Director - Nations of Coaches

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Episode 209

Tommy Kyle is the Executive Director of the Nations of Coaches in Alabama. Tommy has served with Nations of Coaches since 2008. As executive director, he oversees the implementation of Nations of Coaches’ core vision: to help coaches achieve their higher calling of shaping the character of the next generation of young men.

Kyle played basketball collegiately at Tennessee Temple University, where he first began working with SCORE International – a global sports ministry that reaches the nations for Christ through short-term mission trips. Kyle later worked full-time with SCORE as the national college basketball director. Between 1996 and 2007, Kyle served as the head boys basketball coach at Decatur Heritage Christian Academy, where he led the Golden Eagles to three trips to the state basketball’s final four and won five area titles.

The Nations of Coaches works with 3,500+ basketball coaches by helping their players make the connection between character and sport – equipping and encouraging them with the resources they need to build young men of high character and ultimately play and coach for the Master Coach -- Jesus.

On this episode of the podcast, Tommy shares how the Nations of Coaches is helping to equip some of college basketball's biggest coaching names, why the ministry started, how Tommy became a part of it, and what the biggest spiritual battles and challenges are for college basketball coaches who are following Christ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	This episode of the Sports Spectrum podcast with
0:23.1	Tommy Kyle, the executive director of Nations of Coaches, is brought to you by Compassion International.
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1:01.2	today today in the podcast we dive into the world of college basketball and coaches
1:08.7	in college basketball being equipped through faith in Christ.
1:13.3	And Tommy Kyle is the executive director of the nations of coaches, which is a ministry that is
1:19.2	doing exactly that, equipping these major college programs and even some of the smaller
1:24.2	college programs in a way that builds them up in the Lord.
1:29.2	Coaches in college basketball, really coaches all over the country in all different sports,
1:34.9	are so caught up in giving and pouring into others and just releasing all the knowledge
1:40.7	and everything they have to others, but very rarely are they getting fed back?
1:45.6	Are they getting poured into themselves? And so Nations of Coaches has become a place where,
1:51.3	along with the leadership of Tommy Kyle, our guest today, is equipping these coaches spiritually
1:57.1	in an amazing way. And I just loved what Tommy said about understanding for these coaches that they're playing
2:05.8	and coaching for the master coach, Jesus Christ.
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