{"id":78715,"date":"2019-12-05T10:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=78715"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:23:17","slug":"mba-student-mandy-shoopman-organizes-tornado-relief-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/05\/mba-student-mandy-shoopman-organizes-tornado-relief-race\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA student Mandy Shoopman organizes tornado relief race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_78723\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/05\/mba-student-mandy-shoopman-organizes-tornado-relief-race\/tornado-relief-race\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78723\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78723\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2019\/12\/tornado-relief-race-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State University MBA student Mandy Shoopman organized a 5K\/10K run\/walk to support The Foodbank and local residents impacted by the Memorial Day tornadoes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A road race organized by Wright State University <a href=\"https:\/\/business.wright.edu\/master-of-business-administration\">MBA<\/a> student Mandy Shoopman raised more than $10,500 for the Dayton Foodbank.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 290 people registered for the Dayton Tornado Relief 5K\/10K Run\/Walk Benefiting the Foodbank, which took place Sept. 15 beginning at Island MetroPark in Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>Shoopman was inspired to organize the event to help local residents impacted by the Memorial Day tornadoes. &#8220;I find road races to be extremely fun, and it just makes it even better when I know the race is supporting a cause that hits so close to home,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to support from the event&#8217;s 17 sponsors, participants were able to run or walk for free, though they were encouraged to donate food or money to the Foodbank.<\/p>\n<p>Shoopman decided to make The Foodbank the beneficiary of her event because of the organization&#8217;s impact throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hunger relief is so important in our community, and The Foodbank strives to make sure everybody they serve is fed healthy and nutritious meals, which I believe is essential,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Shoopman, who received her bachelor&#8217;s degree in accountancy from Wright State in 2018, works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. She started running about five years ago, training at least five days a week and participating in about 10 road races a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University MBA student Mandy Shoopman organized a 5K\/10K run\/walk to support The Foodbank and local residents impacted by the Memorial Day tornadoes. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/12\/05\/mba-student-mandy-shoopman-organizes-tornado-relief-race\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":78723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,748,2025,4906,725,2050,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-business","category-community-service","category-finance-accountancy-management-information-systems-and-economics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-mba","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78715","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=78715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78930,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78715\/revisions\/78930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}