{"id":1619,"date":"2009-09-07T19:58:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-67\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:49:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:49:30","slug":"high-school-heroes","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/high-school-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 25px\"><a style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;padding: 10px 15px 10px 20px;background-color: white;text-align: center;text-decoration: none;border: 3px double #377bb5;letter-spacing: 4px\" href=\"http:\/\/ideaexchange.uakron.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1124&amp;context=uapress_publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ A SAMPLE<\/a><\/div>\n<p>High school sports might be the last arena in which athletes compete for the sheer joy of participating. This collection of stories touches the heart and soul and emphasizes the little victories. Most of the players, coaches, and administrators consider their actions the result of hard work. They don\u2019t think of themselves as remarkable. They\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stories you\u2019ll read\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diversity, Golf Meet: Every Young Golfer Given Chance to Play at Akron\u2019s First Tee<\/li>\n<li>Dream Becomes a Tall Order: Hudson Girl Outgrows Skating, Finds Success on Basketball Court<\/li>\n<li>CYO Coach Training Helps Protect Kids: Team Leaders Learn How to Spot Sexual Predators<\/li>\n<li>Area Youth Leader Dies at Age of 70: Anderson was Coach, Father Figure to Many Youngsters in Akron<\/li>\n<li>St. V-M: Things You Didn\u2019t Know (and Didn\u2019t Think to Ask): Taylor Talks to the Mirror, Cotton Writes Poetry and Travis Likes to Sleep<\/li>\n<li>Players Pass It Forward: Area Students Pitch in to Help Local Church Give Out Food<\/li>\n<li>The Tausch Family Always Enjoys Hosting Aeros Players: With Jhonny Peralta, They\u2019ve Worked to Overcome a Language Barrier<\/li>\n<li>Buchtel, Yale Mold the Lives of Two Teammates: Kirk, Manley Treasure Educational Experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About the author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<p>David Lee Morgan Jr. was a sports reporter for the\u00a0<i>Akron Beacon Journal<\/i>\u00a0for 15 years (1995\u20132010). He won several awards for his coverage of high school sports and has been a three-time winner of the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association Writer of the Year award. Morgan is the author of<i>\u00a0LeBron James: The Rise of a Star<\/i>,\u00a0\u00a0<i>Kelly &#8220;The Ghost&#8221; Pavlik: The Pride of Youngstown<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>More Than A Coach: What It Means To Play for Coach, Mentor, and Friend Jim Tressell<\/i>. He is a former high school and collegiate athlete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Stories of Inspiration, Dedication, and Hope<\/h3>\n<h3>By David Lee Morgan Jr.<\/h3>\n<h3>Foreword by Troy Smith<\/h3>\n<p>Pages: 203<\/p>\n<p>Size: 5.5 x 8.5<br \/>\nSeries: Ohio History and Culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2739,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[85984],"product_tag":[17419,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-1619","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ohio-history-and-culture","7":"product_tag-akron-beacon-journal","8":"product_tag-sports","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}