{"id":5237,"date":"2021-02-10T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T17:41:12","slug":"student-athlete-advisory-council-recognized-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2021\/02\/10\/student-athlete-advisory-council-recognized-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Athlete Advisory Council recognized nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western was one of 28 schools nationwide to be named a finalist for the 2021 Division II Award of Excellence, an accolade recognizing initiatives in the past year that exemplify the Division II philosophy, community engagement and student-athlete leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The honor stems from the 2019 \u201cGriffs Giving Gifts\u201d initiative, an annual tradition spearheaded by the Missouri Western Student- Athlete Advisory Committee. The program partners with the St. Joseph AFL-CIO to adopt families who need an extra boost. In 2019, student-athletes raised and donated a record $2,000, while adopting more than 50 individuals around the St. Joseph area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s the third straight year a MWSU SAAC effort has been nominated for the Award of Excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western was one of 28 schools nationwide to be named a finalist for the 2021 Division II Award of Excellence, an accolade recognizing initiatives in the past year that exemplify the Division II philosophy, community engagement and student-athlete leadership. The honor stems from the 2019 \u201cGriffs Giving Gifts\u201d initiative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}