{"id":50382,"date":"2018-02-08T11:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=50382"},"modified":"2018-02-08T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:44:34","slug":"roderick-townsend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/roderick-townsend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold medal goals: Meet Roderick Townsend, NAU&#8217;s world championship jumper (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported by <strong>Corderro McMurry<\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by <strong>Erik Sather<\/strong> and <strong>Corderro McMurry<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>NAU-TV<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Meet Roderick Townsend, the jumps coach for Northern Arizona University Track and Field, two-time Paralympic gold medalist and world championship and finalist for a 2017 ESPY Award.\u00a0Townsend&#8217;s brachial plexus nerve is damaged, making his right arm significantly weaker than his left\u2014a condition that hasn&#8217;t stopped him from dominating competitions. He was nominated last year for\u00a0best male athlete with a disability after winning gold medals in high jump and long jump at 2016 Rio Paralympics and gold in high jump at 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Townsend&#8217;s goals for upcoming competitions, including the 2020 Olympics, and his description of the Paralympics and the world-class athletes with which he competes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mtuwuX86oDY\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/roderick-townsend\/\">Reported by Corderro McMurry Produced by Erik Sather and Corderro McMurry NAU-TV Meet Roderick Townsend, the jumps coach for Northern Arizona University Track and Field, two-time Paralympic gold medalist and world championship and finalist for a 2017 ESPY Award.\u00a0Townsend&#8217;s brachial plexus nerve is damaged, making his right arm significantly weaker than his left\u2014a condition that&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":50383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50382","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}