{"id":165164,"date":"2026-04-20T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=165164"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:26:48","slug":"wright-state-student-athletes-help-build-fairborn-home-for-family-seeking-homeownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/04\/20\/wright-state-student-athletes-help-build-fairborn-home-for-family-seeking-homeownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State student-athletes help build Fairborn home for family seeking homeownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Student-athletes and coaches from Wright State University volunteered to help build parts of a new Habitat for Humanity home during a special event organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/\">Athletics Department<\/a> on March 12 in Lot 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is saving us about eight weeks of volunteerism on our build site,\u201d said David Mauch, a 1995 Wright State alumnus and development director at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Over 160 student-athletes from every sport worked in dozens of teams to build all the panels for the future Fairborn home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt presents a good opportunity to show the community that we get excited when they show up for us. So anytime we can do something for the people that live here and people that rally around us, it\u2019s a super exciting thing to do,\u201d said Jahi McDonald, a junior on the track and field team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The house, which Mauch dubbed the \u201cRaider Nation Build,\u201d is being built for Fairborn resident Andriana Guzman and her four children. Guzman and her family have volunteered for Habitat for Humanity for over a year, and she and her children were at Lot 4 framing walls alongside the student-athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFor them, it might be like I\u2019m going to put a couple nails on the boards, but eventually the boards are going to come together and help me build my home,\u201d said Guzman. \u201cI\u2019m really grateful and feel super blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This is the second consecutive year that Wright State University, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton and Wright-Patt Credit Union have <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EvLnDsvplXw?si=IqXoL2XxUanfFEVh\">collaborated on a building project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 160 Wright State student-athletes and coaches volunteered to help build parts of a new Habitat for Humanity home during a special event organized by the Athletics Department. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/04\/20\/wright-state-student-athletes-help-build-fairborn-home-for-family-seeking-homeownership\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":165166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,729,2798,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-around-campus","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\/165164","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=165164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165180,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165164\/revisions\/165180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}