Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: The core. The core that we have here at Emmaus. The students that we have, the student athletes that we have that we're able to build on, man. It's just. It's. It's awesome.
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the official Emmaus athletic podcast. In the nest.
[00:00:17] Speaker B: Let's go.
[00:00:18] Speaker A: Co host Shane Douglas here with Matt.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: I'm finally back.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: You're back.
[00:00:24] Speaker B: Crazy.
[00:00:25] Speaker A: I feel like. I feel like my phrase at the beginning gets longer each time. I don't know what I said this time.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: It's a word sandwich.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: It is a word sandwich. Did I say you may Bible College or did I say you miss University?
It's university.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: University.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Did you guys know we're miss University now?
[00:00:41] Speaker B: Tada. Dude. And we're matching. That's crazy.
[00:00:45] Speaker A: You copied me.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: No, I did not. You were. Whatever.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Either way, guys, welcome back. Thank you for making us a part of your daily. Listen, we are so sorry. For the last two weeks we've been on spring break. We haven't. We've been Trav. Traveling. But also just taking a little break from the end of basketball season. Mostly all the sports. All the sports being over now. Teardrop on our guitar.
We're not.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Mark.
[00:01:13] Speaker A: Yeah. We're not doing the Taylor Swift references anymore. But it is sad. It's sad. It's a sad day. Sad couple weeks of basketball being over with for men's and women's and really just a full wrap up of the sports here at Emmaus University for the fall and spring semesters.
[00:01:32] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:01:33] Speaker A: Winter, you could say, because we don't have spring for winter.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: So that's a wrap. That is a wrap for our fall 24. Fall 25. Thank you for listening. We on to next year, right? Bill Belichick. So, Matt, next year you've been gone, man. We've missed you.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: We've missed you.
[00:01:50] Speaker A: Everybody has been commenting and talking and like dming me saying, why is Shane here and not Matt? We miss his. His head of hair.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Me too.
Me too. This right here just like reflects off of it.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Not right now. I mean after your haircut.
[00:02:07] Speaker B: I know, right?
[00:02:08] Speaker A: Which Rachel keeps telling you too.
[00:02:09] Speaker B: I know. I need to get a little bit up here.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Really the only thing we're looking forward to now, ladies and gentlemen, is signings which will come as well as baby Tomlinson.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: Yes. And intramurals and in.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Fine. You don't want to talk about your.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: Baby coming soon to a hospital near you.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: Well, let's get on to this. We got regionals talk about. But before we get to Regionals for men for the men's and women's team. Conference. Conference didn't go our way. Matt lost in the first round.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Both teams did. Both teams lost. First round.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Women's team had a buzzer beater, which is awesome.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: Matt, Matty Weast hit a buzzer beater three against Central Christian College of the Bible to go play in the fifth place game, which was super exciting. Yeah, we, we struggled. We, we lost to Central which was a, a big upset. We were the three seed, they were the six seed and then we played the next day.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Central had our number towards the end.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: And I mean, injury bug, injury bug. Like you don't want to, you don't want to put blame on stuff but.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: And we're not trying to take away.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: From the men's team and the, the last three weeks of the season, man, injuries have just.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: It was tough.
[00:03:18] Speaker B: It was tough. I mean, first play of the game, Tatum goes up for a layup, gets hit, gets fouled, falls, lands on his hip, just can't move the rest of the game, which affected the rest of that game. And then when he woke up the next morning, that Friday morning, he could not move and so had to play that game without him.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: And looking ahead to regional, looking at the regional, regionals, knowing that if you win conference, conference doesn't get you anywhere other, other than a nice.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: It's like icing on the cake where it's like cool that you got it.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: But have a black back.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: I mean, that's over and then, yeah, regionals, I mean you have to win regionals to regional, get to the nationals.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: That's what, that's where you ultimately really want to go. Yeah. Having conference is easy of scheduling games and playing against opponents that are like minded, like similar, like minded institutions and. But regionals, that's what everyone has their mindset on.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's like, it's like the thought process behind how you approach conference knowing that regionals is the next week.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: And so we had to take that approach of, okay, we're not going to play him this game, then it's the next game because, you know, fifth place, I mean we want to win obviously, but fifth place game doesn't really matter. Him being available at regionals is what matters. And so, yeah, just tough. I mean, for us to finish the season. It's kind of cool. Like I was, I know Coach park and I were talking this and I've talked with a number of people. Like it's really cool just seeing like the women's Team, you know, having six players, like basically the whole season.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Pretty much healthy the whole year.
[00:04:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: And it's, it is insane. You know, five girls playing 40 minutes a game healthy and then, you know, we have 14 guys on the team and man, I think I was looking at it and I think we, of the 14 guys, nine have missed multiple games due to injury throughout the year. And so it's just, it's just the way, it's what happens, the way the cards fall. And so you just got to, you know, have that next man up mentality. But going back to conference, you know, women ended up finishing sixth in that sixth place game. But Rachel Barrett, Dog Dog was awarded second team, no honorable mention. Camera. Which one. Which is bad. But the women's team also got the sportsmanship award, which is back to back years. They've got the sportsmanship award. So shout out to the woman's team on the guy's side. Tatum got first team, Nash got second team. And Collier got honorable mentioned and he was out.
[00:05:38] Speaker A: He was out.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah. He missed the last basically month of the season due to injury. And that man, he's a special player.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And we were able, we were able to bring you guys the, the awards and the stats or highlight the stat highlights of the players for this season up towards conference for the regular season play. But we haven't really informed you what happened at regionals, but we'll get into.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: That after I finish this conference. There was a tie for first place. So Mayor Spence basketball team was conference runner up. So that was exciting.
[00:06:07] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: But yeah, looking up to regionals, obviously regionals and conference, we're the only team, only overlap team between conference and regionals. So we're playing five different schools there looking at awards for regionals. So we just talked about conference awards for the mccc, but now we're looking at the Midwest regional awards. Rachel Barrett was second team. Aaron McKenna was honorable mention on the women's side. And on the men's side, Tatum Arguello was first team all region and he was the newcomer of the year for the Midwest region, which was really cool. And so yeah, looking at regionals, both Emmaus, we were see both we were the five, we were the four seed. Maranatha was the five seed. And on the women's side, Emmaus was the four seed. Maratha was the five seed. So the exact same. So women's, the game they played first and it was a crazy, it was an insane game. It was awesome. Marinette had a really good they really good game plan about how to guard Maddie and Rachel. And our girls responded so well. And they ended up winning and beating them for the third time this season. It was 66, 63. Big shout out to Kate Jansen. She went all 21 points, a career high because they were so focused on. On stopping Rachel that Kate just had a monster game. 21 points. Insane.
[00:07:35] Speaker A: She's a runner.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: She is a runner.
[00:07:37] Speaker A: Star.
[00:07:37] Speaker B: And then Aaron finished with 20 points. So that was super exciting that the ladies got that win that elimination game to go on to play in the semifinals. Really cool. The last four games of the year, the. The women went two and two Crazy. So they won two of their last four games of the year.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Good job.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: Which is awesome. Great job, coach Canard. And so then the next day, which would have been Friday, they played Great Lakes, which was the one seed.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: And on Great Lakes home at the.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: Very beginning of the game.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: Yeah, it was really close. The first. I want to say the first quarter, it was tied. And then halftime. I could be wrong. It was. I think Great Lakes was up by maybe five points. No, there were 10 points.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: They went up significantly come half.
[00:08:20] Speaker B: Oh, wait, that's right. Because the second half, I think we only scored two points, but we ended up losing eight, 85 to 50. And so that ended our season. Aaron finished with 22 points. Rachel finished with 14 points and 16 rebounds. Great Lakes eventually went on to win regionals on a buzzer beater to go to nationals. So we ended up losing to them, but obviously they were the ones.
[00:08:41] Speaker A: Do you remember who won nationals for women?
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Ozark Christian College won for the women's time, which is the first time since 2010 that an MCCC team has won a national championship in any sport.
[00:08:54] Speaker A: Kind of cool. Yeah.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: So shout out the MCCC for that.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: There we go.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: After the Maranatha game that Thursday of regionals, our men played Maranatha and.
Yeah, so it wasn't. We ended up. They say it's hard to beat a team three times in a row. Three times. And we.
This is the fourth time that I've been out of Mayus that Maranatha has ended our season at laughing.
Yeah, we just. We did not. We didn't play well. I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah. Injuries. Tatum was still hurt.
[00:09:26] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:26] Speaker B: Collier was out. Will was out. And Maranatha's had just come back. I mean, that team was a motivated team. They were so motivated. And we were just kind of like we were in this funk the last three weeks, and we just cannot get out of it. I mean, we went from, you know, averaging 86 points a game, be the number three in the nation in scoring, to, you know, we were struggling to score 70 points, and we didn't shoot well. We shot, I think, 20, 22 from three. We shot like 32 from the field. I mean, Tatum ended up finishing with 31 points, but we ended up losing 83.67, which, you know, not the way that you want to end the season, but I think it was.
It was probably the best that. The best way that it could have ended is how it ended because, you know, you don't want to lose to Maranatha. You. You don't want to. You know, we. We ended the streak, unfortunately. But I think having.
[00:10:19] Speaker A: That's why I'm laughing.
[00:10:20] Speaker B: That's why I was laughing in the adjinx, having that feeling at the end of the season knowing, like, okay, we were the better team. We should have won. We did not win. We did not play to our. Our capability. We made them look very good. Not that they aren't good, but they're. I mean, they're a hard team to play. We got fortunate that we beat them twice in the regular season.
They just, like you said, they had our number. And so knowing, like, going into this off season and next season, like, that sting of losing to Maranatha, being upset in the first round, and I think that is going to affect our team more than if we had won and then lost to the number one seed, Great Lakes.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: On their home court.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: And so, like, obviously don't want to lose, but I think of all the possibilities, it was probably the best case scenario because I think it's going to help our program in the long run come back better.
[00:11:10] Speaker A: Matt has been. This is the most I've heard from him regarding regionals the last two weeks when we've been talking about this. This. This episode, the guy has, like, kept it in. He's been. It's been boiling, and now he's. He's unleashed it to. To vent to you guys on camera, live, recorded and live. But from where?
Either way. No, Matt, I. I appreciate the insight. I really do, and I. I hope all of our listeners do as well, but no, it's true. Like, this is the most I've really heard you talk about it. I know it's really tough to have your season ended that way, especially to a competitor, a rival like Maranatha. And I know the women going on to play against Great Lakes, who ultimately won regionals, which is. It's nice to win against the. The winner. That's for sure. But going out that way for the men's is. Is really tough.
[00:12:01] Speaker B: Right. So but it's kind of, I mean like yeah like are how we kind of were dropping off. They were kind of picking up so. And they were always them for that. So like they play. I mean again Coach Canard with what he had coming into the season, like he used utilized it the most of what he had and it was just really cool to see, you know, him able to implement things. Him able to guide these girls putting them in winning positions because yeah, they finished 4 and 22 but they had probably eight games that were right there. Yeah, I mean we had three or four games that were a couple possessions that you know, one shot goes different and that's the game he put them in those winning those positions to win and it showed and it's just encouraging. Like I think, you know he has. He's been really on the recruiting path and so excited to see the team that he's going to bring in next year. The team that he's going to have because you think about it like two thirds of this team are graduating.
[00:12:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: And so he's going to have like a whole new team next year of you know, players to fit his system. And so it's going to be really cool to see. Looking forward to that and seeing how the summer goes and into next season and it's going to be really good. It's going to be fun.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: I was. I was giggling a little bit because just really made me think about the.
The.
The consistent or the. The. The. The more. Yeah. The consistent wins of Maranatha this season against us. How typically it's rare for us to win.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: It's very rare.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: So they.
[00:13:29] Speaker B: We had.
[00:13:29] Speaker A: They got back on track at the end of the season.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: We had a rare loss to them this year at the end of the season.
Our school didn't.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: We didn't.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: No. We had a rare loss this year.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: Still, petty pettiness will always stick with us for sure. And you can say where they're the voice of the Eagles. I feel like Joe Abdi is the voice. Joe Abdi is the voice of the Eagles. Listen to him for our live streams. But the Petty. This is the petty table.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: We're just the silly fun fans that love athletics.
[00:13:58] Speaker A: But no, Maranatha is good competitors and I am excited for next year. Like you said, it left the chip on the men's shoulders because you think.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: About it with our guys team, we're Still a pretty young team.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: I mean, we had two. We had, you know, Nash was a senior, Landon was a senior. But Nash really only played three years. Landon, if you combined his time, probably played two years. And our core was all freshmen or sophomores. And so, like, the exciting part with that is, you know, having this. This core return and building upon that with bringing in other guys and help build upon that, because, you know, that we found out at the very end, especially in conference and at regionals, you know, and honestly, like, with the kind of the youngness of our athletic program finally winning, just trying to figure out as a school, how do you win?
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:42] Speaker B: And when you're in. And when that pressure on yourselves, how do you deflect that to, like, oh, like, instead of saying, like, oh, I have to win this, like, because that puts on so much pressure on your team of, like, performing worse. Because with that pressure, if you have to win, how do you, you know, know that you're a winner and perform as a winner without, like, playing to win rather than playing to lose?
[00:15:01] Speaker A: And also, just being a Christian institution.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Like winning. Winning on the court, but all also, most importantly, off the course. And I haven't seen a men's basketball team or women. I mean, I've seen the women's basketball team perform well and win off the court a lot as well as on the court. But for men's team to perform both and on the court. And this season has been a truly special season. And we've been talking for the last couple days of who's going to return, who's gonna. Who's gonna transfer out, who's graduating, like, who are we losing? And it really. I think it's going to really show you that these guys came together as a brotherhood. A lot of them maybe didn't get the playing time they thought, but played a role on the game.
[00:15:44] Speaker B: When the time for them to step.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: Up happened, I. I hope. I hope and I am confident that that's going to show when majority, if not all of them return next year. And we have a core. And that is where you begin, is once when you have that core, then you can start to build. We saw that with volleyball and how volleyball had a core. They have a core and they're able to build on that. And I will. I.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: With soccer this past year, too, with the success they had as well.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And we won't get into volleyball and soccer, but they have those cores. We know their capability. What it was last year, they didn't. They didn't they weren't able to reach it, but they got that chip on their shoulder. They got that and, and taste and.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: They could have been.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: They got another year to build on that core and now our men's basketball team have that and our women's team is, is kind of looking like they're about to build their core for next year.
[00:16:39] Speaker B: Yeah. So exciting.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: And we, we can't talk about any recruits quite yet. Nothing official, but there's a lot, there's a lot going on.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: And I totally agree because this was, this was my 11th season. I've been a part of, on the men's basketball team at Emmaus in various capacity between being a player, being a coach, and being like in a mentorship role. And. Yeah, like, I, I totally agree with you. Like, this is the best in these 11 years that I've been here.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: Not speaking for before my time, but since I've been here. This was the most connected, most drawn together, most team oriented team.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: And just like, even from just getting along perspective, but just like spiritually minded, like, this is by the most spiritually mature team that we've ever had. And it's just, it's just so encouraging. Like how, you know, you talk about like going back to volleyball, how we talk about, they talk about keeping it Christ centered, committed, competitive. And you, you know, you have to have that, that core first piece. And the other parts will come. You know, this was the most successful Emmaus men's team that we've ever had recorded.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: And this was also the most spiritually mature and strong team we've ever had. And it's like, I wonder if there's a correlation. Yes, there is.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: And there's a lot to say with some of the players that came in this year. Now some of them, a lot of them transfers and some from.
[00:17:50] Speaker B: Five of them didn't.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Some from situations where their school close also others just did not have a good situation prior. Right. And the fact that they came here and they're like, they, they love the community, the brotherhood. Amazing. On, on the team, off the team, on the dorm floors, in the classrooms, in the dining hall, everywhere. And they see this as, you know what, I might have only been here for one year. Maybe I'm gonna come back for more. Right?
[00:18:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: And it goes to show you that it's more than just.
It's more than just the material things. Right.
[00:18:24] Speaker B: It's not just X's.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: And if you guys know Emmaus, if you, if you've been here before and I'll say this, like there's not, not much material stuff here. Like, it's, it's, it will. It does what it needs to do.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: We have what we need.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And it is, it is nice, especially when it's a nice outside. But it's a small, smaller campus, smaller community. But the core, the core that we have here at Emmaus, the students that we have, the student athletes that we have, that we're able to build on, man, it's just, it's, it's awesome.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: It's really awesome.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: And we as a admissions counselors, recruiters, when we go out and we try to sell a maze to people, sell a mess, we use that word just, you know, in this situation. But we tell people about Emmaus and when we do, it's. It's so. I don't know about you, Matt. It is kind of hard to, to bring to words our experience and what Emmaus like, really is because.
[00:19:15] Speaker B: No, I totally agree.
[00:19:16] Speaker A: Because of the community. Here it is. And like, you get cheesy with like. Like, it's like, Asgard's not a home. It's the people. It's not places, the people. But it is true. Like the Emmaus. I came back to this community. I came back to Dubuque for the people, for the community.
[00:19:33] Speaker B: We both came back to work at Emmaus because of the experience that we had and the community that's here at.
[00:19:38] Speaker A: Emmaus and that we were. We're seeing this with our players, our student athletes. They're coming back because of the community. Not because of the amazing classes, right? Or, or the amazing dorm rooms or, or, you know, the beauty of the campus, but because of the people, the professors, the. The staff, the coaches.
And it's a beautiful thing. It really is. It's really awesome. And it's hard to come to words, to express that in words, especially a short sentence, your elevator pitch of what EMAS is like. But that's why we have events like Discovery Mass Weekend, which is not a transition, but it's.
[00:20:13] Speaker B: But it's a perfect segment because if you want to be able to experience Emmaus in a similar, in a Lord willing, similar way that Shane and I both experienced it, we do have Discover Emmaus weekend. It's both in the fall and in the spring. So it's next week, you know, for Friday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you get to be a student. We encourage parents to come as well because parents are one of the biggest advocates for their student to go do stuff. But you get to be in the dorms with a Student, a current student. You get to go to chapel. You get to sit in on Bible classes, or just any of our professional degree classes. Oh, by the way, those professional degree classes, the Bible is implemented into those classes as well, taught from a biblical worldview. So you get to experience that. You get to sit in the dining hall with our professors, with other students, with other prospective students, with our staff members, with the president, and have a meal with all of them. And then some various fun activities, including a fun worship conference coming up. But those are great things if you can't come to do in the fall or spring. We also have plenty of personal visit days that we would love for you to come visit and just see what Emmaus is like, because there's a lot of great places out there, but there's only one road to Emmaus.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: That's true. And we have. We have the testimonies of our players here from our women's team, our men's team. I'm thinking of Tatum and how he had great opportunities, larger schools, larger programs.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Better programs, but said he fell in love with the game of basketball again, being here, being around this community, around these guys. And he. This is the most fun he ever had. And he played at such a high level last year.
[00:21:43] Speaker A: Close to being done. Didn't, you know, didn't know what was going on, but he knew he wanted to be. Grow his relationship with Christ, and he came here, he did that. I've only heard good things from him, from other people, and he's. He's a great testimony to why. Why you come to Emmaus, why Amaz is a. Is a great spot for that. And there's a lot of.
[00:22:02] Speaker B: And he happens to be pretty darn good at basketball.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: It's true, you know, newcomer, the first team all region, and there's a lot of women on the women's team as well that have done the same. You know, I think of. Of. Of Rachel as well. You know, someone who's came here for the Bible transferred.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Or like Maddie who came all the way up from Arizona.
[00:22:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:16] Speaker B: Like. Yeah.
[00:22:17] Speaker A: So. And Jenna as well. You know, Jenna, who her school closed.
[00:22:21] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Yeah. So, I mean, we just had her on the podcast the other week. So either way, there's a lot of great stories here with our student athletes, and we hope to bring you more from them. Their stories in the chair right here at the petty table and. And bring you their stories of how their road to Emmaus. Right. And man copyright that. Their road to Emmaus. Why don't we have a podcast like that will.
[00:22:45] Speaker B: What the heck. We'll figure it out.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah but. But I'm thankful. I'm thankful for the team and what they were able to go through. I know sucks to end a season this way to have to always talk about this on the podcast of us losing and yeah, we're optimistic but at the end of the day we have hope.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: We do.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: We have hope. Right. We. We know that the Lord's not going to ask us how many awards did our. Our sports teams here at a mess.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: What was our record, what was our score in total.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: But it's exciting to, to hear stories of how our, our basketball team has been able to share the gospel to opposing teams and players and see them come to know the Lord. And yeah, we have victory in Christ in that we haven't seen much victory in, in like regionals or even on a bigger stage of nationals yet. That victory of you know, bringing. Being a part of that man's story and seeing him come to know Lord years ago is, is the only trophy we need in our cabinet. And that's what the, that's what the Lord Jesus will ask us at the end of the day. What did you do with the gift.
[00:23:50] Speaker B: And talents that I gave you?
[00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Not about our regional trophies. And of course people at home are gonna be like, yeah, that's what losers say. Goodness. But it's true. Come on guys.
[00:23:58] Speaker B: It's true.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: It's true.
[00:23:59] Speaker B: We want to do everything to our full potential to give God the glory we want to win. But at the end it's not the only thing.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think Emmaus is a spot. You can do both.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: I know Emmaus is about you gonna both. We've seen other schools, other Christian schools out there not to. We're not throwing any names out there, but people who don't have good testimonies, people who don't don't recruit within the. The Christian element.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Right. They sacrifice things to get to that.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: And honestly that's higher level. That's one of the reasons why we've struggled so much while it's a roller coaster here because we do care about the character of the our players. It's one of their character is way more important. It's the biggest admission requirement for Emmaus is being a born again believer and.
[00:24:37] Speaker B: Understanding that and being able to articulate that and living that out. Not just you know, googling how do. How as a Christian it is, it's. It's the walk, it's the full thing. It's not just, you know, you know, oh, I made it through the door. Now I'm good. No, it's. It's every single day.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: So recruiting athletes are hard because of that. And it's not because our, our coaches aren't doing it. It's just. It's tough. So if you know an athlete, if you are an athlete that wants. The Lord, loves the Lord, that wants a community like this that we're describing and to go to a school where you know you can win, but most importantly, you know you will glorify the Lord and have a testimony on and off the court. Emmaus is a place emas. There's only a few. I will say that there's only a few places in, in our nation, a few schools, colleges that are like that. But this one, Emmaus is definitely one of the few universities that has that university.
Either way, that's a wrap. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening to our.
Our message here, our preaching, but we appreciate you making us a part of your day, your daily routine. And we are so sorry for the last two weeks.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Sorry, Kevin.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Sorry. Yeah, yeah, sorry Andy and everybody else. But I blame Matt and Will. I've been the only one who's like, we're ready. But Matt was still.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: I've been traveling a lot and then.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: Don't even. I've been traveling a lot, too.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Yeah, we both have. I was gone for longer trips, but even basketball. More trips for basketball. Basketball.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Don't act like you working over here.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: I always work, dog. What you talking about? Anyway, yeah, we're back. Stay in tune because we're going to have some season recaps with all the different sports between soccer, cross country, volleyball, and both basketball teams. We're going to have some player interviews and stuff like that. So look, keep an eye out for those because they should be coming out.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: And we hope to bring you the. The. The story, the road to a mess of some of our fellow students, especially if we can get our. Our. Our graduates on here as well. So keep a lookout for that. Hopefully those will come throughout the summer, but this is in the nest and thank you for listening. And Matt, you know what day it is.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: Shane Douglas, it is a great day to be an Emas Eagle.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: See you next week.
[00:26:44] Speaker B: Later.
