Football Player Gets Right With God, Makes History for Baylor

Photo Credit: LM Otero/APHe’s a Heisman Trophy candidate who led Baylor to its first conference title since 1980. Still, the moment that shaped Bryce Petty’s college career didn’t occur on a football field.

It happened in a backyard swimming pool.

Only three people were present the day Petty was baptized in the summer of 2012. Chris Wommack, an ordained minister in Waco, dunked the quarterback under the water while Wommack’s wife, Susan, stood near the edge and captured the occasion on camera.

Wommack had asked Petty—whom he’d mentored the previous seven months—if he wanted to invite friends and family to witness the occasion. He declined.

“Bryce wanted the moment to be very private between him and God,” Wommack said. “It was the moment when he said, ‘God, my life is yours.'”

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