{"id":374,"date":"2008-03-14T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/?p=374"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:57:33","slug":"acg-celebrates-sports-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/2008\/03\/14\/acg-celebrates-sports-and-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"ACG Celebrates Sports and Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-375\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/2008\/03\/14\/acg-celebrates-sports-and-friendship\/sportsfest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-375\" title=\"sportsfest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/files\/2012\/10\/sportsfest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a>The <strong>2nd International Sports Festival<\/strong> returns to Aghia Paraskevi Campus on March 20, to celebrate sports and friendship between four countries.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the Office of Athletics, the three-day festival is one of the biggest athletic events of the academic year. More than 500 students of both sexes will compete in basketball, table tennis, soccer, swimming, tennis and volleyball. The participating schools are the American Universities of Sharjah, Cairo and Beirut, the American Colleges of Thessaloniki and Lebanon and the University of Balamand.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes will not only have the opportunity to experience sports competition at an international level, but to build new friendships as well. \u201cThe resulting social interaction will make the festival more pleasurable for everyone,\u201d said Arthur Christopher, executive director of athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Deree students that participated in last year\u2019s International Sports Festival have fond memories. \u201cThis sports event is not about winning or losing; it\u2019s about students from different parts of the world getting together,\u201d said Rene Georgiou, a member of the women\u2019s volleyball team.<\/p>\n<p>The festival ends with a dinner party at Pierce Gym, where athletes have a last chance to socialize and have fun. \u201cI still keep in touch with some athletes from last year and it\u2019s great to be having them back on campus,\u201d said Georgiou.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd International Sports Festival returns to Aghia Paraskevi Campus on March 20, to celebrate sports and friendship between four countries. Organized by the Office of Athletics, the three-day festival is one of the biggest athletic events of the academic year. More than 500 students of both sexes will compete in basketball, table tennis, soccer, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}