Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with

Kazma Kazlin, the founder of Upward Sports. Kaz had a vision to create the

best sports experience possible for every child while providing an environment to nurture kids faith.

Upward Sports has grown under McCaslin's leadership and guidance from a few hundred children playing in seven church basketball leagues to more

than half a million children playing in 2,500 multi-sport clinics, camps, academies, and

leagues in 47 states and 72 countries.

My name is Kaz McCaslin.

I'm the president and founder of Upward Sports.

I was very privileged to be a part of a military family.

My dad was in the army for 30 years and as a result we traveled quite a bit.

Everything from Germany to Japan to back to Pennsylvania and New Orleans and Washington State and then

when he retired we ended up down in the down in Georgia. Traveling around just

really it causes you to find a way to make friends fast you know and and for me

the way we did that was through sports you know my older siblings and my dad

they all love sports and it was a great unifier didn't matter how tall you were how

short you were what color you were where you went to church or if you went to church when you

played sports everybody was on a team and everybody

buddied up really quick I think it had a big part of making you know making all of us

who we are today when I got out of high school I actually had a pretty rough injury

in high school I was all about sports and I wanted to play in the

NBA one day like every young kid that comes along that wants to play sports. But for me,

it was a big time desire for me and when I when I got this injury

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