Tyler Trent, Purdue Super Fan - Cancer Fighter
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Episode 193
Tyler Trent is fighting for his life. The 20 year-old Purdue college student has cancer and is in hospice care.
In 2014, Tyler was diagnosed with bone cancer in high school when his arm snapped playing ultimate Frisbee. He had his right arm removed from elbow to shoulder and replaced with titanium. In April of 2017, he was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer and after undergoing a 10-hour surgery in August of 2017, he was able to start classes in his first year of college at Purdue.
As he's continued his courageous battle, the past few months have brought Trent's story into the national spotlight after ESPN did a feature on him in October.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Tyler about his health, his sudden fame, how his faith in Christ has guided him during this battle and what he is most thankful for.
Purchase a t-shirt at http://Represent.com/Tyler where all proceeds will go to the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
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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 Tyler Trent from Purdue is brought to you by Compassion International. |
| 0:27.6 | Go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 0:30.6 | This is your chance to release a child from poverty. |
| 0:32.6 | It's $38 a month, and we are so excited and so thankful for the great work being done by Compassion International and grateful to have them as partners here on the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | For $38 a month, your sponsorship provides access to school, medical care, food, vocational training, and the opportunity, this is most important, the opportunity to know Jesus. |
| 0:55.4 | Compassion International does it right. We're grateful for their partnership. |
| 0:59.6 | Releasing a child from poverty. That's what this is about. And you connecting with a child and |
| 1:05.1 | providing them hope. $38 a month, it's the holiday season. This is a great time to gather around the table, |
| 1:12.1 | to get the family together, to go to compassion.com slash sports spectrum and sponsor a child |
| 1:18.3 | today. Our guest today on the Sports Spectrum podcast is Tyler Trent. And if you know that name, |
| 1:24.8 | Tyler is a 20-year-old Purdue student who, who's in the fight of his life right now. |
| 1:31.1 | And I am so honored and humbled to be able to invite Tyler and have him accept my invitation to come on this podcast. |
| 1:39.4 | You know, he's been on Sports Center and co-hosting and doing interviews with Scott Van Pelt. |
| 1:45.4 | And his story was featured on ESPN back in early October. |
| 1:49.1 | And that's what really sort of thrusted Tyler into the spotlight. |
| 1:53.9 | And everybody that I've talked to and seen, especially on social media, has been inspired |
| 1:59.6 | and impacted by Tyler's fight. And he is in a fight. He's in the |
| 2:04.0 | fight of his life. He's a cancer fighter. He's also a huge sports fan and a huge Purdue fan. And it was so |
| 2:12.2 | cool to watch him and his one sort of wish was to watch Purdue beat Ohio State. |
| 2:19.7 | And he got to go to the game, ESPN documented it. |
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