{"id":2109,"date":"2016-01-15T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T15:46:02","slug":"local-newspaper-profiles-valencia-volleyball-star-celeste-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Local newspaper profiles Valencia volleyball star Celeste Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Orange County Register<\/em> recently interviewed Valencia High School volleyball player Celeste Chen. She\u00a0lettered three years for longtime coach James Thorne, and received first-team All-Empire League laurels this winter for her play at libero. &#8220;We&#8217;ll miss the things she brings on the court: her talent, her passing, her defense,&#8221; Thorne said. &#8220;But she&#8217;s such a great, hard-working kid, too. We&#8217;re losing our prime example of a student-athlete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 4.8 GPA student in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, Chen&#8217;s extracurriculars include coaching, volunteering and participating in several after-school clubs. She will play volleyball next year at Carleton College in Minnesota, where she&#8217;ll pursue a degree in biology and a career as a veterinary orthopedic surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/chen-699723-school-volleyball.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the article. Go Tigers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register recently interviewed Valencia High School volleyball player Celeste Chen. She\u00a0lettered three years for longtime coach James Thorne, and received first-team All-Empire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1177,15],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","category-school-district","tag-valencia-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}