UCLA QB Chase Griffin on football, faith and leadership
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Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Chase Griffin is a quarterback at UCLA. In 2020, he saw his first game action for the Bruins and finished the season completing 64.5% of his passes, 451 yards and 6 TD. In his first 2 years at UCLA, he was able to obtain his BA in Public Affairs and in 2021, earned the Chancellor's Service Award, the highest leadership and service award for students at UCLA.
In 2014, Griffin was first thrusted upon the public stage when he was featured on ESPN.com as "QB most likely to succeed." His high school career saw him attend Hutto High School in Hutto, TX. In 2018, he was named the Texas Gatorade Player of the Year and passed for 4,051 yards and 51 touchdowns.
On today's podcast, Chase shares how he was able to obtain a Bachelor's Degree at UCLA in 2 years, his desire to be a life-long learner, having ESPN feature him at 13 years old and how God has guided him in his football journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, today's episode with Chase Griffin from UCLA. He's their quarterback, their red shirt |
| 0:05.5 | sophomore quarterback, is presented by Compassion International. We are so close to reaching our |
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| 0:25.9 | You can help right now by going to fill the stadium.com and donating its food, |
| 0:29.0 | it's education, it's medical care, it's vocational training. |
| 0:34.9 | It's the basic essentials that you and I take for granted here that your money is going to go to to help a child and their family living in poverty, |
| 0:39.1 | especially during this pandemic. |
| 0:40.9 | Check out fill thestadium.com to learn more and to donate today. |
| 0:44.6 | This is a stadium that cannot remain empty. |
| 0:47.9 | Go to fill the stadium.com. |
| 0:49.7 | Music This is the Sports Spectrum podcast, where faith and sports sports intersect. |
| 1:03.5 | Now let's bring in our host, former ESPN producer Jason Romano. |
| 1:07.8 | Welcome to the show, everyone. |
| 1:09.4 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 1:10.7 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast where we bring Jesus back into the sports |
| 1:15.3 | conversation. |
| 1:16.8 | And we're going to do that today with Chase Griffin, the UCLA red shirt sophomore |
| 1:21.5 | quarterback. |
| 1:22.8 | I'll tell you a little bit more about Chase in a second. |
| 1:24.8 | First, I want to direct you to our website, sportspectrum.com, |
| 1:28.6 | the home base for all of our content here at the Ministry of Sports Spectrum. Devotionals, |
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