{"id":14836,"date":"2020-09-29T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/damon-west-speaks-to-student-athletes\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:00:49","slug":"damon-west-speaks-to-student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/damon-west-speaks-to-student-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Damon West speaks to Student-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Motivational speaker Damon West spoke to coaches and student-athletes on the evening of Sept. 28 via Zoom. West told his compelling story of going from a privileged Division 1 quarterback to a meth addict, who faced 65 years in prison. The best selling author of &#8220;The Coffee Bean&#8221; explained how he overcame all odds and turned his life around.<\/p>\n<p>The session had 249 total users, and the coaches and student-athletes were engaged during the Q&amp;A session at the end of the presentation. The best moment of the night came when one of our coaches received the following message from a student-athlete:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach, just got done listening to Damon West, and it completely shifted my outlook on how I view life itself. It made me realize that it&#8217;s never too late to get up and do something life-changing for yourself and for the world. Thank you coach for letting all of us know about the Damon West webinar. It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ll never forget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to Maria Zemantauski, coordinator of the college&#8217;s Cultural Affairs Program, for collaborating with athletics on this offering.<\/p>\n<p>West will be telling his story again on Thursday at noon via Zoom to the general public.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/events.hvcc.edu\/event\/damon-west-motivational-speaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for more information and to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:00:49 +0000 by\u00a0j.hoyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Motivational speaker Damon West spoke to coaches and student-athletes on the evening of Sept. 28 via Zoom. West told&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}