All-American Mo Isom to speak in Trevecca chapel
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Former LSU soccer player and All-American goalkeeper Mo Isom will be speaking on Trevecca’s campus on Feb. 27.
Isom made history as the first female to train with and try out for an SEC football team. She was also LSU’s Homecoming queen. Isom is now a New York Times best-selling author, speaker and blogger.
Isom’s book, Wreck My Life, is about how she dealt with an eating disorder, depression, the death of her father, and a tragic car accident. In the book, Isom tells the story of how she was hanging upside down in the wreckage.
In that moment, she found Jesus and felt His love.
“My testimony is riddled with adversity, but in the midst of the darkness I encountered a life-saving King who wrecked my life for His glory and has never stopped pursuing me since,” Isom’s website reads.
As a public speaker, Isom has spoken within the U.S. and internationally. She has appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show, ESPN, CBS, and CBN. According to her website, one of Isom’s greatest passions is to advance the Kingdom through face-to-face spoken word.
Isom’s path to Trevecca began when head volleyball coach Jayme Crowley read Isom’s book.
“Throughout the course of my coaching and teaching career, I have noticed many young people deal with body issues and compare themselves to others striving to look like and be like someone else other than who God has made them to be,” Crowley said. “God began to bring attention to these things to me in my prayer and devotional sessions.”
Crowley says that one day she prayed to God, thanking Him for bringing the issues to her attention and asked that He tell her what He wanted her to do with that information.
“That morning on my way to work, the following mantra came into my heart three times, ‘Mo Isom, Mo Isom, Mo Isom,’” Crowley recalled. “I felt like God was telling me the answer was to contact Mo Isom to see if she would speak at Trevecca. I immediately went in and talked to my athletic director, Mark Elliott, and he supported my decision to contact Mo.”
Crowley contacted Isom that day, and Isom soon responded with a yes. Isom will speak at Trevecca’s Monday night chapel service in Boone Convocation Center at 6:30 p.m.
“I really think this is a God thing and God-directed,” Crowley said. “My prayer is that God will send the right people to the speaking engagement and that He will touch the lives of those that need to be impacted by Mo’s story.”
To watch Isom speak in chapel, visit streaming.trevecca.edu.
By Hannah Pollok
Media contact: Mandy Crow, mmcrow@trevecca.edu, 615-248-1695