In this episode of the Varsity Catholic Podcast, host Brady Stier sits down with Anne Bloomer to talk about how to live the Gospel both on and off the ice, just like the early disciples did in Acts 2:42.Anne was part of the gold-medal-winning US Under-18 Women's National Hockey Team at the 2018 IIHF Championships before heading to Harvard, where she became a four-year member of the ice hockey team, an All-Ivy First Team selection, team MVP, and team captain her senior year, helping Harvard win the ECAC regular season title, the Ivy League title, and the Beanpot in 2022. Today she's a Catholic missionary and team director at Columbia University in Manhattan.This conversation is a reminder that your sport can be a training ground for something much bigger than the scoreboard.Join THE CATHOLIC MOVEMENT FOR ATHLETES.Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/varsitycatholic/Find us Online: https://focus.org/what-we-do/varsity-catholicEmail us at: varsitycatholic@focus.org

The late Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian once said a good coach makes his players see what they can be, rather than what they are. As Catholic athletes, that's exactly the kind of coach we need in our lives — someone who sees us as saints in the making, on and off the court.

In this episode of the Varsity Catholic Podcast, host Brady Stier sits down with Casey Bruggeman, head coach of the University of Jamestown Jimmies basketball program, to talk about coaching as a witness, a ministry, and a vocation. Casey grew up in the gym watching his dad coach girls' high school basketball, and traces his own coaching path through mentors like his college coach Rich Glass, and Father Mike Schmitz at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He gets honest about the Catholic missionaries who pulled him (kicking and screaming) into daily holy hours, and how "training in the chapel" transformed a faith that had been mostly Sunday-morning-only into something real.

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From The Mighty Ducks to Miracle to Remember the Titans, sports stories capture our imagination and make us want to step into the arena. However, there's a story even more powerful than any of those: our own story about coming to know Jesus Christ.In this episode of the Varsity Catholic Podcast, host Brady Stier sits down with Dylan Layne, a linebacker at Oregon State University and a recent convert to the Catholic faith. Dylan's twin brother Jack is a quarterback at New Mexico, and the two grew up playing every sport together, but it wasn't until they got to playing that their faith journey really began.

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