Chase Morlock
Episode 117
26 APR 2021
He was a running back for four years at North Dakota State University, capped off by a senior season in which he was named All-Missouri Valley Football Conference first team as a fullback. In high school he had been an all-state running back and was even named to the 2012 Minnesota Vikings all-state team and Associated Press all-state second team. In addition, he was an outstanding wrestler in high school, winning the 2012 state championship. Along the way he, unfortunately, went through a major event in his family. Nowadays he is the co-founder of and head trainer at Rise Training & Fitness in Minnesota.
Notable guest quotes:
“At the end of the day, really what mattered was just coming down to the sacrament of marriage, and getting to marry my wife, Heidi, was the best day of my life and… celebrate that amazing sacrament.”
“I was so plugged in at my church and just getting to know priests so well was just, it was just special.”
“(I) was raised Catholic, baptized Catholic… We went every Sunday… I grew up altar serving and I grew up doing all the Confirmation classes.”
“I think… there’s three big questions that I think almost everyone asks themselves at some point… Where do you find meaning, where do you find value, and where do you find purpose?”
“I think it’s just super special and cool how God kind of works and can prep you for getting your heart and mind ready for crazy things that are about to happen.”
“My quarterback in college, one of ’em, was Carson Wentz… I was having lunch with him one day and he’s the person that really stirred my heart… He just came out with a really bold question… He just said, ‘Hey Chase, how are you doing spiritually,’ just kind of out of the blue. And nothing crazy happened in that moment, but it just got my wheels spinning.”
“We have a team priest at NDSU, his name is Father Jim Meyer. I’d known him, I had attended a lot of Masses in college. We do pre-game Mass before games, and I was always going to those… Father Meyer was by my side… and he still is to this day.”
“I was going to… for a long time… Fellowship of Christian Athletes… and then we had a guy come in and invited us to go to this Ultimate Training Camp and this is basically a non-denominational, just, Christian camp… and there’s athletes that come from all over the country.”
“Jesus was a real person and we can have a real connection to him… He sacrificed himself to suffer for what I did wrong.”
“I was reading books. I was talking to pastors. I was talking to different priests, just to, like, pick their brains. I just put a ton of research into studying.”
“I think a big piece of the Catholic faith that I really, really love… is just all about loving, serving, caring, and just doing these amazing works.”
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