Veronica Burton on life in the WNBA, growing in her faith and trusting in God's plan
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Veronica Burton is a WNBA player with the Dallas Wings. She was selected seventh overall in the first round of the 2022 WNBA Draft after a stellar career at Northwestern that saw her named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year three times.
In her senior season with Northwestern, she averaged 18 points, 4.3 assists and led the nation at 3.8 steals per game. She was named Third-Team All-American in 2022 by the AP and won the WBCA Defensive Player of the Year.
Today on the podcast, we talk to Veronica about her first season in the WNBA, the growth she's seen in her faith, the importance of community and the importance of family.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sports Spectrum's podcast is presented by our friends at Compassion International. |
| 0:05.5 | We love the partnership that we have with compassion. |
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| 0:53.3 | training, educational assistance, mentoring, and most |
| 0:57.0 | important of all, every child will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong |
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| 1:12.2 | You can sponsor that child right now, or you can pray about it, talk about it with your family, |
| 1:17.7 | and help release a kid from poverty in Jesus' name. |
| 1:22.5 | Compassion International. |
| 1:24.4 | Check them out at compassion.com slash sports spectrum. |
| 1:37.3 | Welcome into the Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus into the sports |
| 1:42.9 | conversation. Here's your host for today, Jason Romano. |
| 1:48.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano, and how great is it that we get to have |
| 1:53.7 | conversations on the intersection of sports and faith? That we get to talk about Jesus and talk about |
| 1:58.9 | sports and look at sports as a great way |
| 2:01.8 | to hear stories of people's lives and how they're increasing in Christ and decreasing in self. |
| 2:08.4 | And we got a great conversation today coming up with Veronica Burton. First, I want to tell you |
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