{"id":4740,"date":"2020-03-02T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:55:10","slug":"bes-pupil-competes-in-top-ice-skating-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/bes-pupil-competes-in-top-ice-skating-event\/","title":{"rendered":"BES Pupil Competes in Top Ice Skating Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Darcey-Feb-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Darcey-Feb-2020.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Darcey-Feb-2020-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A Bridgnorth Endowed School pupil competed against top ice\nskaters from around the world at a prestigious international competition held in\nLondon last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darcey Gordon, from Year 7, took part in Skate Southern International and was placed tenth in her category, against 24 other girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talented 12-year-old works exceptionally hard and trains\nfive days a week at Telford Ice Rink under the direction of figure skating\ncoach, Jason Bowman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Training involves hours of practicing on the ice as well as\noff-ice conditioning and fitness drills to improve her strength and flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darcey\u2019s mum, Katherine, said: \u201cI am extremely proud of\nDarcey \u2013 she works really hard and is very committed to the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe next big competition is at Billingham in June, where she&#8217;ll continue to focus her efforts on trying to achieve her technical score for the qualifiers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done to Darcey! We wish her the best of luck for her next event and look forward to hearing how she gets on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bridgnorth Endowed School pupil competed against top ice skaters from around the world at a prestigious international competition held in London last week. Darcey Gordon, from Year 7, took part in Skate Southern International and was placed tenth in her category, against 24 other girls. The talented 12-year-old works exceptionally hard and trains five &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/bes-pupil-competes-in-top-ice-skating-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BES Pupil Competes in Top Ice Skating Event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2,16,30],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-sport","tag-year-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}