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BYU professor and Mormon Olympian marathoner shares his ‘Day Job’ and faith in Olympic Channel video

Jared Ward finished sixth in the 2016 Olympics and hopes to make another run in the 2020 Olympics. But the 29-year-old is also a husband, father, an active Mormon and a statistics professor at Brigham Young University. A new video released Monday by Olympic Channel highlights the different aspects of Ward’s life.

“It’s easier to juggle a lot of things going on in life when you love all of them,” Ward explains in the video as he is shown reading the Book of Mormon with his wife and two small children. “I couldn’t be more blessed than to have the family that I have.