{"id":33607,"date":"2018-07-20T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=33607"},"modified":"2018-07-20T21:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T03:09:45","slug":"uccs-student-places-in-top-ten-at-x-games-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=33607","title":{"rendered":"UCCS student places in top ten at X Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"OSybQNYNTGt7jYU8_BlXNg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1002322228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'OSybQNYNTGt7jYU8_BlXNg',sig:'AAewMvFsG7vfZYcGWHrP5PaAI6vDcMRP4Rdt3uzNY28=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1002322228',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan \u201cJono\u201d Schwan, a Bachelor of Innovation computer science sophomore, placed ninth in the X Games Pacifico Skateboard Vert finals July 19 in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Schwan qualified for the finals after finishing second place out of 15 in the qualifiers. His best score out of the three runs was 86.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ggm3dTuUI0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Springs native competed against nine other skateboarders in the finals with a best run of 76 points.<\/p>\n<p>Schwan has competed in eight other X Games competitions, bringing home the bronze in the 2010 amateur level.<\/p>\n<p>When Schwan was 13 years old, he created the\u00a0SK8-Strong foundation. The foundation aims to promote a healthy environment at skate parks and provide opportunities to amateur athletes to improve their skills and make healthy choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jonathan \u201cJono\u201d Schwan, a Bachelor of Innovation computer science sophomore, placed ninth in the X Games Pacifico Skateboard Vert finals July 19 in Minneapolis. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=33607\" title=\"UCCS student places in top ten at X Games\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":33620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[53,88,114,113],"class_list":["post-33607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-academic-affairs","tag-bachelor-of-innovation","tag-college-of-engineering-and-applied-science","tag-department-of-computer-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-20-at-3.25.57-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-8K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33607"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33629,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions\/33629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}