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Mack Brady

16 January 2004 — 31 December 2012

The Mack Brady Memorial Soccer Clinic

A brief history of the beginning of the Mack Clinic, set up by Penn State Soccer to celebrate and share Mack's life and love of soccer and goalkeeping.

Mack Keepers

All Penn State Men's Goalkeepers now wear a patch honoring Mack.

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Goalkeeper U

The Mack Brady Fund is making Penn State Goalkeeper U!

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John William McKenzie “Mack” Brady

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Mack Brady Penn State Men's Soccer Fund.

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The 9th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Clinic was a great success! Elizabeth, Izzy, and I cannot thank our panelists enough for their gracious gift of time and their wonderful humor and candor in sharing about their journeys through youth soccer (play more than one sport!), tips about training at home, […]

Thank You & Virtual Clinic Video

While we cannot meet in person, we will not miss our Annual Mack Brady Clinic! Even in this odd year, the Goalkeeper Union comes through to provide another clinic for aspiring keepers! It will be virtual, of course, but mark your calendars for January 17, 2021 and register now! The […]

Register for the 9th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Clinic, This …

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A few weeks ago I had the honor of being interviewed about Beautiful and Terrible Things by Shelley Craig for the Faith and Grief Podcast. The less than stellar audio quality was my fault, I was recording from my iPad via Zoom (so sometimes it would speed up/slow down). It […]

Mack’s Dad on “Faith and Grief” Podcast

We were so honored to be invited on Open To Hope’s Conversations: The Podcast. It was a wonderful chance to talk about Mack, grieving, and finding hope.

Podcast Interview with Elizabeth and Christian

Mack’s dad here. Westminster John Knox Press has posted the page to pre-order my book Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Christian Struggle with Suffering, Grief, and Hope. It is in press now and will be available on September 1, 2020. The description from the publisher: Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert […]

“Beautiful and Terrible Things” now available to order.

The 8th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Soccer Clinic will be from 2:30 to 4:00 pm on Sunday January 12th, 2020. The clinic is free of charge and open to children 16 and under, but all participants are required to fill out and bring with them two forms: the Consent for Treatment […]

The 8th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Soccer Clinic – January …

A new essay of mine was posted today on Open to Hope reflecting on the season of Advent and showing up for one another in our darkest hours. I love this quote from Sister Joan Chittister: “Have you never been imprisoned by your fears, your embarrassments, your humiliations, your inadequacies? […]

Advent: A Visit In The Darkest Hours

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Some thoughts as we enter the season of remembrance. Read it in full here. I have come to appreciate that memory lives in a separate space and at times Mack and I share a moment. Often I laugh out loud and “re-member” Mack’s great laugh and feel his warm spirit […]

Día De Muertos: Eat, Speak, and Remember

Update: I had no idea this ran on the cover of the Collegian! Thank you again to the editorial board for covering the Mack Match and to David for writing the story. What a wonderful remembrance. Thank you. Penn State Collegian staff writer David Pollak did a very nice piece […]

Collegian: “Mack Brady lives on through Penn State men’s soccer”

An essay from Elizabeth recently posted on OpenToHope.com. It has been six and a half years since our son, Mack, died suddenly on New Year’s Eve 2012, just shy of his ninth birthday. As the many of us who learn to live newly after loss, we take it on as […]

A Funeral, A Wedding, Graduations And One Unwanted Guest

On the morning of February 12, 2019 England’s greatest goalkeeper died. Gordon Banks was the winning keeper in Englands 1966 World Cup victory and had “The Greatest Ever Save” four years later against Pelé. He was the hero of many children, even an Irish lad from the north. I met […]

Gordon Banks (and Mack) Remembered

Thank you all for the wonderful clinic! We had over 120 kids in attendance, the Penn State Coaches and players were AWESOME (as always), and it was a wonderful celebration of Mack’s life and the sport he loved! Happy 15th Birthday Mack! 🍀

Photos: The 7th Mack Clinic

I hardly remember any details from those days after Mack died. The world continued to move, a new year had come in, yet everything had changed for us. Suddenly we had to cope with all sorts of things parents never imagine they need to deal with. My brother came to […]

A brief history of the Mack Clinic

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Join us for the 7th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Soccer Clinic with Penn State Men’s Soccer! January 6th, 2-3:30 pm, in Holuba Hall on Penn State’s University Park campus. It is a FREE clinic and all that will be needed is for children to bring their own ball and parents […]

7th Annual Mack Brady Soccer Clinic – January 6, 2019

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