{"id":1526,"date":"2010-09-28T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T15:25:51","slug":"muleriders-promoting-movement-in-magnolia-elementary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2010\/muleriders-promoting-movement-in-magnolia-elementary-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Muleriders promoting movement in Magnolia elementary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1527\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1527\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/09\/Muleriders-for-Movement.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mulerider football players Caleb Patterson, from left, Darren \u201cSkinny\u201d Lewis, and Greg Nelson play freeze tag with a group of students at Westside Kindergarten.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MAGNOLIA\u2014 Members of the Southern Arkansas University Muleriders football team have partnered with staff from Talbot residence hall to promote physical education in Magnolia\u2019s elementary schools. The group has been dubbed \u201cMuleriders for Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The student-athletes are planning weekly trips to the schools and hope to visit each campus three to four times during the semester. So far, the group has made two trips to Westside Kindergarten. Plans are being made to visit Eastside Elementary and Central Elementary in the future. Four to five members of the football team volunteer to make the trip each week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take part in the P.E. lesson that is being taught that day,\u201d said Gary Herron, Talbot Hall director and a graduate assistant in the Department of Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent trip to Westside, the group played freeze tag with kindergarten students. While physical education classes at the junior high and high school levels place more focus on exercise and being fit, Herron said there is a different goal at the elementary level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they do at the kindergarten is teach them fun games to stay active,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Herron credited physical education instructor Josh Willeford and Principal Jill Rader for making the trips to Westside very successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is gaining the experience of being role models \u2013 someone for the students to look up to,\u201d he said. \u201cReally, it\u2019s more about giving back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGNOLIA\u2014 Members of the Southern Arkansas University Muleriders football team have partnered with staff from Talbot residence hall to promote physical education in Magnolia\u2019s elementary schools. The group has been dubbed \u201cMuleriders for Movement.\u201d The student-athletes are planning weekly trips to the schools and hope to visit each campus three to four times during the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2010\/muleriders-promoting-movement-in-magnolia-elementary-schools\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[92,276,126],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}