{"id":7525,"date":"2022-10-03T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7525"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:31:13","slug":"tailgating-with-mizzou-wheelchair-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/tailgating-with-mizzou-wheelchair-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgating with Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/20221001-REC-MWB-Tailgate-SEO-0433-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221001-REC-MWB-Tailgate-SEO-0433-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Colin Higgins, President Choi, Lee Melymick and Coach Lykins at the MizzouRec tailgate.\" class=\"wp-image-7526\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Left to right) Colin Higgins, President Choi, Lee Melymick and Coach Lykins at the MizzouRec tailgate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tailgates aren\u2019t just for Tiger football. Last Saturday before the Georgia game, I stopped by MizzouRec for a day of activities supporting our <a href=\"https:\/\/mizzourec.com\/programs\/sports-competition\/mwb\/\">Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball<\/a> team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head Coach Ron Lykins \u2014 the winningest coach in international wheelchair basketball history \u2014 and many of his players greeted fans and showed their skills on the court. Student volunteers from our Parks, Recreation and Sport program also helped out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/20221001-REC-MWB-Tailgate-SEO-0112-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221001-REC-MWB-Tailgate-SEO-0112-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Curator Wenneker with Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball student-athletes Koda Inman-Ahlstrom, Lee Melymick, Mack Reed, Daniel Clements and Jivon Payton.\" class=\"wp-image-7527\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Curator Wenneker (center left) with Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball student-athletes Koda Inman-Ahlstrom, Lee Melymick, Mack Reed, Daniel Clements and Jivon Payton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curator Robin Wenneker and I joined nearly 400 other attendees who came to learn about the game and even try the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball schedule will be announced soon. I hope Tiger fans fill historic Brewer Fieldhouse to cheer on another great Mizzou team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tailgates aren\u2019t just for Tiger football. Last Saturday before the Georgia game, I stopped by MizzouRec for a day of activities supporting our Mizzou Wheelchair Basketball team. Head Coach Ron Lykins \u2014 the winningest coach in international wheelchair basketball history \u2014 and many of his players greeted fans and showed their skills on the court. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}