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She starred in basketball at Anna High School AND won individual state titles in track (800-meter run) and cross country. She played basketball at Ohio State from 2007-2011, with her teams going 106-30 and winning three Big Ten titles over that time. She was a starter her final two seasons, leading the Buckeyes to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 as a senior co-captain. Just 18 months after her final game for Ohio State, she entered as a novice in the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George. Nine years later she made final vows and became a perpetually professed Catholic sister. Today she is Head of Campus Ministry at St. Cecilia Middle and High School in Hastings, Nebraska.

She is currently training for a 5K that will take place on November 29th. She grew up an athlete, playing sports nonstop through childhood. She dabbled in soccer, volleyball, and track & field, but competed at a high school varsity level for basketball, cross country, and softball, with the dream of potentially playing college softball. That dream was taken away due to a condition that tempted her to believe that she would never be an athlete again. She came back into sport in the form of coaching varsity-level CYO boys basketball, which then led her to becoming an assistant coach for an AAU boys basketball team. Thankfully, she has a remarkable comeback story that includes she and her husband's present-day business, Hope Not Nope, which leads athletes towards elite performance in mind, body, and spirit.

He took over the JV soccer team at St Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1995, stepped away three years ago, but came back this year. More than a decade ago he was asked to help pilot what became the Sports and Arts Chaplaincy Program at the school, having started out ministering to the Junior Varsities and eventually becoming the chaplain for the hockey program. As a student-athlete he had swam in high school as well as having played for a CYO basketball team AND served as a student trainer and manager for the football and basketball teams. He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he played intramural soccer.

She is the head women's volleyball coach at Penn State University, in her fifth season in that position. She is a national champion as a player (1999) and then two years ago became the first female head coach to lead a team to an NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball title. That same season she announced publicly a breast cancer diagnosis. A two-time All-American at Penn State, she took over the head coaching reigns after spending four seasons as an assistant. Before returning to Penn State as an assistant coach in 2018, she spent eight seasons as the head coach at UIC and one season at Penn. She has been inducted into multiple halls of fame.  And in high school she led her team to state and national titles in volleyball.

This guest comes to us from the horse world. She started riding when she was five years old and went on to be a professional horse trainer and 3 Day Event rider. Along the way she trained and taught lessons for about 15 years. She stepped away from the professional circuit when she started having kids but does still have horses.  Meanwhile, she is a board-certified health coach specializing in Spiritual Somatic Rewiring - a signature framework that combines nervous system repair, subconscious belief work, and the truth of scripture to create permanent transformation at the root level.