MARSHALL — When Marshall High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes members Kianna Prins and Simon Zahrbock attended leadership camp last summer, they were impressed with the keynote speaker.

That keynote speaker was Mo Isom, a New York times best-selling author and nationally-known speaker and faith-based blogger. Isom was also an All-American goalkeeper who competed with the Louisiana State University women’s soccer team from 2008-2011. She led the team to three SEC West Championships and three NCAA Tournament appearances.

“She was powerful,” Prins said. Her presence was big, she said. “She speaks truth, just real and raw, she’s straight forward.”

Isom will bring her story “Wreck My Life” to Marshall at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Southwest Minnesota State University Conference Center. The event, which is being sponsored by the Southwest Minnesota FCA chapter, also features Maddy Guetter, an FCA student leader at Wabasso High School, Bryce Paulsen, FCA student leader at MHS, coach Matt Lundeen, head football coach at Redwood Valley and Ana Schwartz, former MHS leader and Bethel University golfer.

Southwest Minnesota FCA director Robin Knudson said Isom’s story is a story of redemption. Isom has been through a lot of personal tragedy, including her battle with an eating disorder, her father’s suicide and surviving a horrific car accident.

“There’s something everyone can relate to in her story,” Prins said.

Prins and Zahrbock remembered Isom’s message during the leadership training.

“She had everyone’s full attention,” Prins said. “You could hear a pin drop.”

In the last few years, Isom has spoken to more than 300 different conferences, organizations, churches, teams and schools in the U.S. and internationally. She has written two books, “Wreck My Life: Journeying from Broken to Bold” and “Sex, Jesus, and the Conversations the Church Forgot.”

At most FCA camps there is a male athlete who is the speaker — especially at a co-ed camp, but at this one when they found out that Mo was a female they wondered how that would go until she said her first word, Zahrbock said.

“It was so amazing and powerful,” Zahrbock said.

Knudson said what attracted her to Isom’s message is that she’s biblically sound.

“There has never been a time where I heard her speak where she has not used Scripture as her foundation,” Knudson said.

Besides being a soccer player, Zahrbock noted that Isom also kicked for the LSU football team. Isom was the first female to try out for SEC Division I football team and trained with the LSU men’s football team as a place kicker. She has appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” ESPN, CBS and other media outlets.

“She’s very relatable,” Prins said.

Prins and Knudson said Isom doesn’t sugarcoat anything.

“She earns your respect by who she is,” Knudson said. “She speaks real life.”

Knudson said the Southwest Minnesota FCA invited students in seventh grade on up to the event because of the message Isom shares.

“She’s humble enough to share her experiences,” Knudson said.

“She says how it is,” Prins said.

“Everyone has to go through something hard in their life,” Zahrbock said.

And Sunday’s event is not just for teens, Knudson said, adults — coaches, teachers, parents and grandparents — are also encouraged to attend.