{"id":22104,"date":"2006-05-03T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:51:58","slug":"athletics-hosts-be-a-student-athlete-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/athletics-hosts-be-a-student-athlete-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics hosts Be a Student-Athlete for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More than 70 NAU student-athletes served as hosts to students from Beaver and Kinsey elementary schools for Be a Student-Athlete for a Day, attending university classes throughout the morning and touring other campus facilities together.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event culminated with a luncheon held on the field of the Walkup Skydome for all the visitors and student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was nice to have both schools part of the event this year,&#8221; said senior swimmer\u00a0<strong>Kelly Busche<\/strong>, who coordinated the event with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. &#8220;They seemed to have a ton of fun. The student-athletes loved taking the little kids with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The elementary students sent thank-you notes to the department last week.<\/p>\n<p>South Beaver student Tessa Lucero wrote to soccer player\u00a0<strong>Kylie France<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hanging out with you guys made me change my mind about what I want to be when I get older,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I want to become an athlete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>National Student-Athlete Day honors student-athletes and the network of parents, coaches, teachers and school systems who make it possible for young people to strike a balance between academic and athletic achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/athletics-hosts-be-a-student-athlete-for-a-day\/\">More than 70 NAU student-athletes served as hosts to students from Beaver and Kinsey elementary schools for Be a Student-Athlete for a Day, attending university classes throughout the morning and touring other campus facilities together. The event culminated with a luncheon held on the field of the Walkup Skydome for all the visitors and student-athletes.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}