{"id":55751,"date":"2019-01-25T15:09:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=55751"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T20:09:47","slug":"abc-22-wright-state-holds-draft-day-for-10-year-old-battling-serious-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/25\/abc-22-wright-state-holds-draft-day-for-10-year-old-battling-serious-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC 22: Wright State holds Draft Day for 10-year-old battling serious illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/25\/abc-22-wright-state-holds-draft-day-for-10-year-old-battling-serious-illness\/jj-hill\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-55753\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/01\/jj-hill-260x171.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>Fans in the Nutter Center Thursday night were going wild for more than just the basketball game. JJ Hill is just 10 years old, but he&#8217;s signed on to be Wright State University&#8217;s newest golfer. While he&#8217;s a little younger than the rest, he&#8217;s already proving to be a valuable member of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The night was one that JJ&#8217;s mother Carly thought might never happen. &#8220;I&#8217;ve watched him lay in an ICU before and not know,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three years ago and is also partially deaf. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to be 10 years old and have to watch and limit everything you do,&#8221; Carly said, &#8220;and not get to do the things that all 10-year-olds get to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A national nonprofit is now joining in the first to change that. &#8220;Team IMPACT matches kids with serious and chronic illnesses to college sports teams across the country,&#8221; Director of Development Communications for Team IMPACT Mary Callaghan said.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State is one of 600 colleges in 48 states that are helping create life-long friendships. As a member of the team, JJ is getting the red carpet treatment and his own locker, but that&#8217;s just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc22now.com\/news\/local\/special-signing-wsu-has-exclusive-draft-day-for-10-year-old-battling-serious-illness\">Watch the story from ABC 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans in the Nutter Center Thursday night were going wild for more than just the basketball game. JJ Hill is just 10 years old, but he&#8217;s signed on to be Wright State University&#8217;s newest golfer. While he&#8217;s a little younger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/01\/25\/abc-22-wright-state-holds-draft-day-for-10-year-old-battling-serious-illness\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":55753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55751","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\/55751","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=55751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55755,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55751\/revisions\/55755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}