{"id":45213,"date":"2017-04-21T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=45213"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T20:28:39","slug":"student-athletes-hosts-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/04\/21\/student-athletes-hosts-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-athletes hosts Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two dozen athletes from Special Olympics of Greater Dayton took part in an indoor field day to help celebrate National Student Athlete Day on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>The day recognizes the accomplishments of student-athletes who excel in the classroom, on the playing fields and who give back to their community through service projects.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State student-athletes along with Special Olympians played numerous games, including matt ball, relay races, basketball and weight lifting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re fellow athletes so I just think anytime you can get together with different athletes no matter what their background, I think it\u2019s awesome,\u201d said Haley Garr, a senior volleyball player.<\/p>\n<p>The field day event took place in the Setzer Pavilion. Following the field day, Olympians attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsuraiders.com\/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=92412&amp;SPSID=630822&amp;DB_OEM_ID=27000\">Wright State baseball team<\/a> game versus UT Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two dozen athletes from Special Olympics of Greater Dayton took part in an indoor field day to help celebrate National Student Athlete Day on April 14. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/04\/21\/student-athletes-hosts-olympians\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":45214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2025,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","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\/45213","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=45213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45215,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions\/45215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}