Notre Dame Women’s Basketball Star Declares ‘Christ Is Everything’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Notre Dame women’s basketball star Hannah Hidalgo is not ashamed of telling others about her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
“I mean, Christ is my everything,” she began to say on the “Sports Spectrum Podcast” with Jason Romano.
“I mean, He’s my Lord and Savior. He’s the reason that I fight, the reason that I do everything and, you know, the reason that I’m able to kind of do what I do,” she added. “You know, He’s just everything in my life, and I wouldn’t be able to do anything without Him.”
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Hidalgo is just a sophomore for the Fighting Irish, and in her rookie season, she claimed ACC Rookie of the Year, ACC Defensive Player of the Year and All-ACC First Team. She also averaged “22.6 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 4.6 steals per game.”
Last season, after Notre Dame clinched the conference championship, Hidalgo wrote on Instagram, “God got me doing things I use to see on a tv screen.”
Hidalgo gets her faith from her parents as “she grew up in a Christian household.”
She continued, “I kind of knew the name Jesus, but I didn’t really follow it until, you know, COVID. When COVID happened, we were in shutdown. I had a lot more time to kind of focus on my relationship with Christ, and I really took it a lot more serious. And so after COVID, I started building my own relationship with Christ and not just banking on my parents’ relationship with Christ. I really wanted a true relationship for myself. And so that’s when I really locked in and built my own relationship.”
Hidalgo hopes to lead her team once more to the NCAA tournament and even to a National Championship, but most importantly, she hopes to lead her teammates to Christ.
Movieguide® recently reported on another basketball star who devotes his life to Christ:
Detroit Pistons guard Jaden Ivey is about to enter his third year as a pro, but he decided to get baptized before the season begins.
He shared in a post on his Instagram several photos from his baptism. “NOTHING WITHOUT JESUS,” he declared.
Ivey also included two Bible verses. The first is 2 Corinthians 5:17 which reads, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
The second verse is James 1:17: “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.”
Ivey was joined by his wife, Caitlyn, and the two were baptized together.
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