{"id":5044,"date":"2023-11-08T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2023-11-09T21:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:55:55","slug":"students-raise-money-for-breast-cancer-research-during-bench-out-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/08\/students-raise-money-for-breast-cancer-research-during-bench-out-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Students raise money for breast cancer research during Bench Out Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Troy Athletics held his fifth annual Bench Out Breast Cancer to raise donations for breast cancer awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers said it took a team effort to execute the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mainly we got all the athletes involved,&#8221; said organizer Richard Shaughnessy. &#8220;We had some people from outside here also participate but the Athlete Student Council puts it together.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people who were at the event have been personally impacted by breast cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of people who who end up dying or have somebody in their family that that has cancer or has has suffered from it,&#8221; Shaughnessy explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Breast cancer means a lot because I&#8217;ve had a few people and my family with breast cancer so it&#8217;s very serious and I know the research and stuff that goes behind it, it takes a lot,&#8221; said spectator Gabbi Cartagena. &#8220;To see all these people supporting it, it means a lot to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event served as a way to encourage, uplift, and motivate members of Trojan Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel like these events are important to a team because it helps get people confidence because it&#8217;s a whole bunch of people out here cheering them on,&#8221; Cartagena explained. &#8220;It allows a lot of sports organizations to get together and have a good time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Troy Athletics held his fifth annual Bench Out Breast Cancer to raise donations for breast cancer awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said it took a team effort to execute the event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mainly we got all the athletes involved,&#8221; said organizer Richard Shaughnessy. &#8220;We had some people from outside here also participate but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/11\/08\/students-raise-money-for-breast-cancer-research-during-bench-out-breast-cancer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1266,108,66],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bench-out-breast-cancer","tag-breast-cancer","tag-trojan-athletics","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5066,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}