Krista Steinbeiser
Episode 277
20 MAY 2024
She has coached for FC Dallas Juniors and for TOCA — which is an official soccer training partner of MLS — in addition to being a private trainer / entrepreneur for soccer skills, camps, and events. She has six years of training in Krav Maga, Karate, Jiu-jitsu, and other forms of self-defense and now teaches private lessons to individuals, groups, churches, and monthly women’s seminars. She received ISSA certification in fitness and nutrition and worked with dietitians for five years, plus 25 years of experience working with various coaches and instructors. She played division I college soccer at McNeese State University, where she was First Team All-Conference and earned the Golden Boot Award. She had been varsity soccer MVP in high school and also competed in club and other soccer programs.
Notable guest quotes:
“I just have a really interesting experience in confirmation. I just remember that I really fell in love with confirmation prep. I fell in love with the retreat beforehand and something changed in me during confirmation.”
“I started going to Bible studies before school in high school. I would go on retreats. I was really digging into the faith, and I was really ignited with a hunger to understand the sacraments and the Eucharist – the Eucharistic beating living heart of Jesus. I was (hungry) to understand the wholeness and the beauty of the Mass and everything about our amazing Catholic faith.”
“I started playing soccer when I was five (years old) and then I did a lot of other camps like basketball camp, soccer camp, track and field camp, even like lacrosse and volleyball. Since a very young age, I think sports just came very natural for me.”
“There’s a healthy relationship you can have with sports, and then there is a point where it becomes unhealthy, and that is part of my journey, that is part of my testimony, and I’m here to speak into the truth over the mental health, and the relationship we can have with sports as Jesus in the center of it all.”
“The healthy part of it, which I can speak into, is – this is where I was starting to learn in college – the healthy part of sports, and that is putting Jesus in the center.”
“We would be in the middle of a fitness test, like, supernatural strength would take over. And we would be so exhausted, and our physical strength would not match just, like, the times that we could get on these fitness tests because we were tired. And so, when we tried to just leave it all on the field, like with the abundance mindset, like God gave us the gift to play soccer and we’re just going to go all out; not in the toxic, perfecting performance mindset, but it’s like, we’re going to give it to God. And I believe that is the healthy part of sports.”
“If you rest well, you rest with Jesus in the center, you will play well. And God, once it’s about, you know, healthy leisure, like playing, like soccer should be fun. It should be free. It should be joy-filled with the Holy Spirit at the center of it all.”
“I got into running a lot of marathons and again the devil was lying to me because I thought I was praying whenever I was running. But the enemy was like, ‘Oh, if you run more miles, you can pray more rosaries.’ But that was a lie… I was running from the reality that I needed healing.”
“Even in the Bible over and over again, like, St. Paul even talks about being an athlete. And, you know, God gave us bodies. In our bodies we live and move, and we have our being. So, there is a healthy way to be active and to glorify God through our bodies. We can all still be athletes… we are athletes by nature. We are contending for a prize. And the prize is heaven. It’s eternal salvation with Jesus Christ.”
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