{"id":140047,"date":"2023-08-07T10:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=140047"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:12:35","slug":"the-greatest-thing-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/07\/the-greatest-thing-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The greatest thing ever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students at The Goddard School in Beavercreek got a rare chance to exercise, dribble and pass basketballs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\">Wright State University men\u2019s basketball team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">On July 25, the players visited the school, where they led basketball drills and exercises for nearly 100 students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMaybe they\u2019ll remember or maybe they\u2019ll just think we are some big giants,\u201d said Tanner Holden, a graduate student and guard on the men\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The children learned about teamwork before the Raiders\u2019 arrival. The students wore their favorite professional or college team jerseys to celebrate the visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis was the greatest thing ever,\u201d said Clayton Goff, age 4, who wore a Wright State basketball jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff at the school said the basketball players made an impact on the students, giving them something to remember for a long time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor weeks, they\u2019re going to be talking about it,\u201d said teacher Brooklynn Keller. \u201cThis is definitely one of their highlights of the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nick Goff, director of basketball operations, said it is important for the team to be involved in the community, and the visit is just as impactful on the players as the schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are so thankful for The Goddard School for allowing our team to hang out with the little ones, and we cannot wait to see them cheer for us this upcoming season at Wright State,\u201d said Goff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at The Goddard School in Beavercreek got a rare chance to exercise, dribble and pass basketballs with the Wright State men\u2019s basketball team. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/07\/the-greatest-thing-ever\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":140050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2798,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140104,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140047\/revisions\/140104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}