{"id":77039,"date":"2026-02-11T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77039"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:48:33","slug":"see-louie-bobsled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/see-louie-bobsled\/","title":{"rendered":"See Louie bobsled!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wish you could be in Italy watching the Winter Olympics? What if there were a closer race &#8230; and the bobsleds were coolers? Last weekend, Cooler Runnings, a fundraiser for the Flagstaff Family Food Center sponsored by Canyon Coolers and Mother Road, offered locals the chance to &#8220;sled&#8221; down a hill using modified Canyon Coolers as bobsleds. Check out NAU&#8217;s entry and Louie&#8217;s run!<\/p>\n<p>Chris Phillips, Molly Wood and Heather Ainardi from NAU Advancement | Foundation built and designed the sled, with Marquiza Gallegos and Wyatt Thompson, both graduate assistants from NAU Athletics\u2014and, of course, Louie\u2014driving the sled.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos and video provided by Cassie Petit, NAU Advancement | Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NAU&#039;s Louie competes in Canyon Cooler &quot;sled&quot; race\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZE7CzQK2Uq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77041\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-1024x473.jpeg\" alt=\"The NAU Canyon Cooler bobsled\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-1024x473.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-300x139.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-768x355.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-1536x710.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77042\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Louie-and-Comet.jpg\" alt=\"Louie the Lumberjack and Comet\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Louie-and-Comet.jpg 480w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Louie-and-Comet-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77043\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2-1024x473.jpeg\" alt=\"The NAU Canyon Cooler bobsled\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2-1024x473.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2-300x139.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2-768x355.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2-1536x710.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2026\/02\/Image-1-2.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/see-louie-bobsled\/\">Wish you could be in Italy watching the Winter Olympics? What if there were a closer race &#8230; and the bobsleds were coolers? Last weekend, Cooler Runnings, a fundraiser for the Flagstaff Family Food Center sponsored by Canyon Coolers and Mother Road, offered locals the chance to &#8220;sled&#8221; down a hill using modified Canyon Coolers&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":77040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77039","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=77039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}