{"id":21509,"date":"2022-04-20T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=21509"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:22:21","slug":"rio-vista-ruby-drive-and-melrose-students-learn-about-teamwork-through-goals-hockey-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=21509","title":{"rendered":"Rio Vista, Ruby Drive, and Melrose students learn about teamwork through GOALS hockey program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District students in the GOALS hockey program have had a great time practicing and learning new skills over the past few months. Rio Vista Elementary School&#8217;s two teams, the Skating Leopards and the Mighty Leopards, were ready to face Melrose Elementary School and Ruby Drive Elementary School in their first games of the season!\u00a0<br><br>On Tuesday,\u00a0April 19, the Skating Leopards took on the Melrose Marlins in a close game. According to teacher Leonel Diaz, all of Rio Vista&#8217;s players did an amazing job attempting to make passes and get some shots into the goal. The Skating Leopards took the lead 1-0 in the last 20 seconds of the game when fifth grader Erasmo Huerta scored the first goal of the season!\u00a0Woohoo!<br><br>Rio Vista loves supporting their two hockey teams! Games will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:45-6:15 p.m. throughout the end of April with\u00a0championship games taking place in May.<br><br>GOALS, which stands for Growth Opportunities through Athletics Learning and Service, and the district&#8217;s CASA program have provided the opportunity for hundreds of PYLUSD students to learn hockey since the early 2000s.<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"wp-image-21511\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rio-Vista-Elementary-School-GOALS-Hockey-4-20-2022-1.png\" alt=\"Rio Vista students.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rio-Vista-Elementary-School-GOALS-Hockey-4-20-2022-1.png 1000w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rio-Vista-Elementary-School-GOALS-Hockey-4-20-2022-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rio-Vista-Elementary-School-GOALS-Hockey-4-20-2022-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District students in the GOALS hockey program have had a great time practicing and learning new skills over the past few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168,15],"tags":[117,172,56],"class_list":["post-21509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-school-district","tag-melrose-elementary-school","tag-rio-vista-elementary-school","tag-ruby-drive-elementary-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509","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=21509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}