{"id":10669,"date":"2022-05-13T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:43:12","slug":"olympic-athletes-visit-acps-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/olympic-athletes-visit-acps-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Athletes Visit ACPS Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic athletes brought their inspirational messages to students in Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) this month. Professional boxers Keyshawn Davis and Troy Isley visited Patrick Henry K-8 School (Patrick Henry) on May 4, 2022, talking with students in grades six and seven about motivation, perseverance and their personal reflections. Students had the opportunity to ask the athletes of Team USA about their own experiences in school and how they got to where they are today. The boxers\u2019 advice for the students: \u201cbe smart\u201d and \u201cmake good choices.\u201d Davis, whose sister works at Patrick Henry, and Isley, who hails from Alexandria, were also in the area to visit the White House.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10671 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-800x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-800x598.png 800w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-260x194.png 260w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-134x100.png 134w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-768x574.png 768w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley-1536x1148.png 1536w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/Troy-Isley.png 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On May 6, 2022, professional rugby player Abby Gustaitis, who hails from the DMV area, held a \u201cmeet and greet\u201d with Alexandria City High School (ACHS) girls and boys rugby team members at the Chinquapin Park Recreation Center. Gustaitis, joined by Premier Rugby Sevens, gave students the rundown on playing in the 2020 Summer Olympics and ran a quick training session. ACHS is the only school in the Northern Virginia and D.C. area to field an all-girls rugby team that plays regional club teams in order to compete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10672 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-800x526.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-800x526.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-260x171.jpeg 260w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-152x100.jpeg 152w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-768x505.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2-380x250.jpeg 380w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rugby-2.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll always come against obstacles,\u201d Gustaitis told the ACHS students. \u201cIt\u2019s not the end of the road. You can persevere. Never take no for an answer. You can create your path.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic athletes brought their inspirational messages to students in Alexandria City Public Schools this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 02:52:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}