{"id":3940,"date":"2023-03-07T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:00:09","slug":"ato-brothers-prepare-for-2023-walk-hard-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/03\/07\/ato-brothers-prepare-for-2023-walk-hard-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO brothers prepare for 2023 Walk Hard journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 It is a big week for TROY fraternity Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) as members prepare to travel from Troy to Panama City Beach, Florida, completey on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We walk for <a href=\"https:\/\/jeepsullivan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeep Sullivan&#8217;s Wounded Veterans and Outdoor Adventures<\/a>,&#8221; explained ATO brother Troy Morgan. &#8220;We walk from Troy Alabama to Panama City, 128.3 miles, in six days.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past 14 years, the event has grown to a national level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I definitely think it&#8217;s an amazing thing that we&#8217;re getting recognized on a national level,&#8221; said ATO member Cole Pierce. &#8220;As much as you love the attention being on the news and stuff, it&#8217;s just great because now it&#8217;s not just a local thing. We&#8217;re getting it out all across the country and people sending donations from many states over. They&#8217;re hearing about our story, talking about it on Facebook. I think that affects where they are locally, too. It gets them involved with similar ideas and similar foundations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, walkers traveled to Montgomery where they were recognized by Gov. Kay Ivey. It was a moment some brothers say underscored the impact the event makes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re about to start something that most people would love to do,&#8221; said ATO brother Chase Durden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members say this year&#8217;s goal is to keep moving forward and to raise more money than last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the days leading up to the event, walkers will participate in Spirit Nights as well as attend the annual Girls Walk Harder event, where ladies walk six miles around campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Girls Walk Harder is just a way to get our sororities and a lot of our friends to just get more involved and help and spread the message of what this means to us,&#8221; Pierce said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brothers will leave from Troy University&#8217;s main quad on Friday, March 10 at 8 a.m. They expect to arrive in Panama City Beach on Wednesday, March 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 It is a big week for TROY fraternity Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) as members prepare to travel from Troy to Panama City Beach, Florida, completey on foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We walk for Jeep Sullivan&#8217;s Wounded Veterans and Outdoor Adventures,&#8221; explained ATO brother Troy Morgan. &#8220;We walk from Troy Alabama to Panama City, 128.3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/03\/07\/ato-brothers-prepare-for-2023-walk-hard-journey\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}