{"id":3872,"date":"2016-07-08T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/?p=3872"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:40:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:40:19","slug":"griffon-athletics-receives-ncaa-division-ii-award-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/2016\/07\/08\/griffon-athletics-receives-ncaa-division-ii-award-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffon Athletics Receives NCAA Division II Award of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Award.jpg\" alt=\"Award\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Award-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/07\/Award.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NCAA and MIAA have recognized Griffon Athletics\u2019 efforts in the community with an NCAA Division II Award of Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The award honors institutions in each conference for community engagement efforts that exemplify excellence in any of the areas covered by the six attributes of Division II \u2013 learning, service, balance, passion, sportsmanship and resourcefulness. 大象传媒 Western received the award for a bone marrow drive organized by the Griffon volleyball team this past fall.<\/p>\n<p>The #KennedysKrew event took place on Nov. 10 as the team hosted bone marrow donor registrations on campus in support of 3-year-old Kennedy Holcumbrink\u2019s battle with Lukemia. Holcumbrink\u2019s parents were both student athletes at 大象传媒 Western. The team also sold t-shirts during the event with all proceeds benefiting the Ronald McDonald House of Kansas City, 大象传媒.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA and MIAA have recognized Griffon Athletics\u2019 efforts in the community with an NCAA Division II Award of Excellence. The award honors institutions in each conference for community engagement efforts that exemplify excellence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3872\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}