{"id":156123,"date":"2024-12-16T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=156123"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T21:27:40","slug":"dayton-daily-news-tom-archdeacon-the-stars-stripes-flight-classic-was-more-than-a-basketball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/12\/16\/dayton-daily-news-tom-archdeacon-the-stars-stripes-flight-classic-was-more-than-a-basketball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News’ Tom Archdeacon: The Stars, Stripes, Flight Classic was \u2018more than a basketball game\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It wasn\u2019t Brandon Noel\u2019s forceful dunks or even Alex Huibregtse\u2019s three-pointer and after three-pointer after three-pointer \u2014 six in all \u2014 that brought the entire Nutter Center crowd of nearly 10,000 to its feet, it was the actions of three former Miami Valley high school athletes and nine of their compatriots during halftime of Wright State\u2019s\u00a0basketball game against the Air Force Academy on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Akiaya Rhinehart, the Fairborn High School wrestling standout who had a 42-2 record as a senior and was the runner up for the state\u2019s heavyweight title; Trevor Parthemore, a four-year, two-way starter for the Urbana High football team who was the Hillclimbers\u2019 captain; and Madison Taylor, a basketball and volleyball stalwart at Wayne High School, all raised their right hands at midcourt and were sworn into the U.S. Air Force by Wright-Patterson AFB brass, Col. Dustin Richards, 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Tessa Fontaine.<\/p>\n

Wright State had billed the night as the Stars, Stripes, Flight Classic and as Raiders\u2019 athletics director Joylynn Brown had aptly explained: \u201cThis is more than a basketball game. It\u2019s an event to celebrate the relationship between the United States Air Force and the Dayton region.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why, after the recruits took the oath of enlistment \u2014 formally declaring their commitment to support and defend the Constitution of the United States \u2014 they drew the loudest cheers and most heartfelt applause of the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first it was kind of nerve-racking standing out there, but then, seeing all the people stand up and support you, it kind of slowed everything down for me,\u201d said the 20-year-old Parthemore. \u201cIt calmed me down and made me see what I\u2019m doing is going to be great and all these people are for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

His dad \u2014 retired Tech Sgt. Jeremy Parthemore \u2014 spent 20 years in the USAF Security Forces and had seven deployments that included three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember when (Trevor) was growing up \u2014 he was maybe six \u2014 he wanted to be like Dad and dressed up for Halloween in a costume that was actually the same gear that I wore to work,\u201d Jeremy said.<\/p>\n

As Trevor stood at center court, his trick or treat fantasy of long ago was now fully eclipsed by a reality that was even more magical: \u201cIt hit me that I\u2019m not only carrying on the legacy of my last name, but I\u2019m also fulfilling my own legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the complete article at daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t Brandon Noel\u2019s forceful dunks or even Alex Huibregtse\u2019s three-pointer and after three-pointer after three-pointer \u2014 six in all \u2014 that brought the entire Nutter Center crowd of nearly 10,000 to its feet, it was the actions of three … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":156127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156123","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156132,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156123\/revisions\/156132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}