{"id":18911,"date":"2018-05-01T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18911"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:39:25","slug":"18911_political-science-major-receives-bronze-medal-for-olympic-weightlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2018\/05\/01\/18911_political-science-major-receives-bronze-medal-for-olympic-weightlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Science Major Receives Bronze Medal for Olympic Weightlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/political-science-law\/\">Political Science<\/a> major Chris Hernandez. He received a bronze metal for lifting 130 kilos (286 lbs.) at the Nike USA Weightlifting Nike National University &amp; Under 25 Championships in Ogden, Utah on April 21. He received the metal for the clean and jerk weight-lifting category among the Under 25 participants.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hernandez became a Political Science major after arriving on campus and witnessing the 2016 elections which helped him discover his passion for the subject. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/political-science-law\/student-pre-law-resources\/\">pre-law minor, he plans to attend law school<\/a>, and then run for elected office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keys to Success: Patience and Focus<\/strong><br \/>\nThe skills he&#8217;s developed as an athlete are also helpful in his studies at Montclair State. &#8220;As an Olympic Weightlifter I practice patience and focus every time I train. These two practices are also important when it comes to school. Whether it&#8217;s writing a paper or doing a case brief, I am always patient and focus on my research. When I graduate here I will go to Law School. My experiences here will certainly be ones I will not forget,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Political Science major Chris Hernandez. He received a bronze metal for lifting 130 kilos (286 lbs.) at the Nike USA Weightlifting Nike National University &amp; Under 25 Championships in Ogden, Utah on April 21. He received the metal for the clean and jerk weight-lifting category among the Under 25 participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":118911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212309,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions\/212309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}