{"id":46403,"date":"2017-06-29T17:18:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46403"},"modified":"2017-06-29T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:18:18","slug":"wright-state-swimming-and-diving-group-meets-fundraising-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/29\/wright-state-swimming-and-diving-group-meets-fundraising-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State swimming and diving group meets fundraising goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/29\/wright-state-swimming-and-diving-group-meets-fundraising-goal\/17933-bob-noss-swim-team-9-28-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46406\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/06\/17933-018-508x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to successful fundraising efforts by former swimmers and friends, the Wright State swimming and diving teams will compete during the 2017-18 season. (Photo by Chris Snyder)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsuraiders.com\/SportSelect.dbml?ATCLID=211637896&amp;DB_LANG=C&amp;DB_OEM_ID=27000&amp;SPID=92405&amp;SPSID=630789\">Wright State University swimming and diving teams<\/a> will compete during the 2017-18 season as the fundraising efforts by former swimmers and friends of the program proved to be successful.<\/p>\n<p>The group raised the necessary funds for a limited schedule during the coming year,\u00a0including the Horizon League Swimming and Diving Championships in late February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy to have the swimming and diving teams back for the 2017-18 season, and appreciate the efforts of the group and the dedicated alumni to make this happen,\u201d\u00a0 said Bob Grant, Wright State director of athletics.<\/p>\n<p>The university announced in May the elimination of the programs as a part of the budget remediation process.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Board of Trustees <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/08\/positions-of-57-wright-state-employees-to-be-eliminated-under-budget-approved-by-board-of-trustees\/\">voted on June 8<\/a> to allow interim President Curtis L. McCray and Grant to explore ways of allowing the swimming and diving teams to compete for one more season. From that, a group of former swimmers and supporters set out to raise the required $85,000.<\/p>\n<p>The university and the swimming and diving supporters will continue conversations about how to fund the program beyond the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>A schedule for the 2017-18 season will be released soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful fundraising efforts by former swimmers and friends mean the Wright State swimming and diving teams will compete during the 2017-18 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/29\/wright-state-swimming-and-diving-group-meets-fundraising-goal\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":46406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,4293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-student-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46403","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46421,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46403\/revisions\/46421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}