{"id":605,"date":"2019-04-25T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/?p=605"},"modified":"2019-04-27T00:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T00:22:30","slug":"crossing-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/crossing-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/files\/2019\/04\/track-ribbon-cutting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/files\/2019\/04\/track-ribbon-cutting-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"track-ribbon-cutting\" width=\"300\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/files\/2019\/04\/track-ribbon-cutting-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/files\/2019\/04\/track-ribbon-cutting-1620x1080.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>For the first time in seven years, the Mountaineer track and field student-athletes competed at home in La Grande on March 16. The team\u2019s home-opener christened EOU\u2019s brand-new track surface and facilities, which were installed last fall with funding from the EOU Foundations\u2019 Building Champions campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach of track and cross-country Ben Welch cut the ceremonial ribbon alongside Athletic Director Anji Weissenfluh and Mountaineer student-athletes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-left lead\">Support the <a href=\"eou.edu\/stadium-track\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Building Champions&#8221; campaign<\/a> and help EOU raise the last $650,000 to reach its goal.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis Stadium and Track project has been in the works for years \u2013 at least since the time that our track became unusable \u2013 and it is not an overstatement to say that it is a game changer for us and for all of eastern Oregon,\u201d Weissenfluh said.<\/p>\n<p>Weissenfluh anticipates hosting youth and high school competitions, as well as community events on a collegiate-standard running surface. Executive Director of Philanthropy and the EOU Foundation Patrick Regan said an additional $650,000 is still needed to reach the campaign\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg blue\" href=\"eou.edu\/stadium-track\">Give now at eou.edu\/stadium-track!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in seven years, the Mountaineer track and field student-athletes competed at home in La Grande on March 16. The team\u2019s home-opener christened EOU\u2019s brand-new track surface and facilities, which were installed last fall with funding from the EOU Foundations\u2019 Building Champions campaign. Head coach of track and cross-country Ben Welch cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[25,37],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-2019","category-university-news","tag-athletics","tag-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mountaineer-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}