Megan Soderberg has been on staff with Athletes in Action for three years, serving in the Special Events department at the AIA World Training and Resource Center in Xenia, Ohio. The Wisconsin native first arrived in the Buckeye State in the fall of 2003, working as an intern with the same department before officially coming on staff.

What is your role at Athletes in Action?

I work in the Special Events department at AIA. Specifically, I work on the Legends of ProRodeo Breakfast, the All-Star Breakfast, the Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast and the Night of Champions. Before moving to Ohio from Wisconsin four years ago, I lived in Milwaukee and worked as the Operations Manager for the US Bank Championship, which is part of the PGA Tour.

What do you love most about being on staff with AIA?

I love the people I have met and the places I have been. The best friends in my life are girls that I have met since joining staff four years ago. I also love how we are encouraged to grow spiritually as part of our job. Working with Dave Lower every day has been a blast. Finally, I love the places that this ministry has taken me, from the incredible sports venues like the Super Bowl and Final Four, to the most humble places like the dusty little villages in Kenya.

You're known at AIA as a big college basketball fan. Tell me about your "basketball family."

Hmm. Well, people typically knew me as "Coach Soderberg's kid" before they actually knew my first name. I am the youngest of seven children, and my dad was well into his coaching career by the time I was born, so it has been part of my life from the beginning. He coached high school football and basketball and coached all four of my brothers during their high school careers. He was an amazing coach and is in Wisconsin 's Coaches Hall of Fame for both football and basketball.

Some of my best memories are riding the bus to away games with the team, playing on the dummies at his football practices, and going to every one of my brothers' games. I specifically remember on the drive to away games how my dad would let me look at his play diagrams and pick the first play of the game. I don't know if he actually ever used the play that I picked, but I sure felt special.

Three of my four brothers followed in my dad's coaching footsteps. Two are still coaching basketball at the college level. Needless to say, my "history" is the only explanation as to why I am passionate about ministry to coaches and their families, particularly in the basketball world. I have had a front row seat my entire life to both the privileges and pressures of coaching. It's quite a ride!

If you could meet any sports figure in the world who would you meet?

I just met John Wooden in January so I can't ask for much more than that. I would've loved to have met Dave Lower in his former AIA basketball glory. (How hilarious would that have been?!)

What has God been teaching you lately?

To trust in His timing. Debra Lester (fellow AIA staff woman) said to me recently that "our God is not a God of confusion." I feel like He has been reinforcing that message to me over and over again lately. If I don't feel clarity, if there is confusion, then wait a little longer. He will bring order and clarity in His time.