{"id":6239,"date":"2020-03-02T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:31:45","slug":"a-track-for-daytona-state-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/a-track-for-daytona-state-students\/","title":{"rendered":"A track for Daytona State students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Andrew D. Guillory – Special to In Motion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \n Growing up, almost every school that I went to made us go outside in \nthat hot sun and run a few laps on the track, but for the result of \nmaking kids active and getting our endurance up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n Both Mainland High School across the street and Embry Riddle \nAeronautical University have tracks for their students and community \nmembers to use. Why doesn\u2019t Daytona State College do the same for our \ncommunity?       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n DSC must invest in a track for students, athletes and the public. \nFalcon soccer, basketball, volleyball, baseball and softball players, \namong others, can all benefit from the use of a track on campus by \nholding practices that improve speed and strength for the players.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n The percentage of the population of obese adults in Fla. was 18.4% in \nyear 2000. It has now risen to 30.7% as of 2019. How can we help prevent\n this? We can help do our part with a track. It can give people a start \non the journey to a better and healthier way of living. There are even \nchildren who are overweight, due to not having somewhere to use their \nenergy instead of staying stagnant and indoors with homework, TV and \nvideo games instead of physical activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n With a track, just as we do the fitness center and pool area, we can \ncharge people for using it and make time windows for everyone to keep it\n organized. Instead of a membership, there could be an admission fee \neach time it needs to be used by a team, students, faculty or \nindividuals from outside the school need to use it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n As for the athletes at our school, giving them this feature can provide\n a way of reducing stress related injuries and tension. It can also help\n individuals work on attributes such as quickness, speed and agility, \nthose being the main things needed to improve better at sports like \nsoccer and baseball. Getting from one base to the next takes some quick \ntwitch muscles and a track workout would help contribute to the developing of that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n With a track could come a track team. Even more value could be brought \nto the athletic department with the addition of a track team. If current\n cross-country coach Judy Wilson became the primary track coach, with \nher experience and long background, it would give the team and other \nathletes in need of a second chance the opportunity to run again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n You may be thinking, but where will we put a track? here may be a \nperfect spot to put it, which is on that old and barely used practice \nsoccer field at the front of DSC. Since it is not being used much now, \nthis would be a good time to start the remodeling process. Based on the \nmeasurements (total track length = (2 \u00d7\u202f84.39m) + (2 \u00d7 36.80m\u202f\u00d7 \u03c0) = \n168.78m +\u202f231.22m = 400m) of a track and a soccer field, with a few \nadjustments, it would be a great option.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n The new L. Gale Lemerand Student Center that opened last year has \nbrought a lot of students and athletes together to socialize, get work \ndone and play games. A track can bring that energy but with exercise \nincluded. With the coming dorms, a brand-new track would be a great \naddition and make DSC real competition with universities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew D. Guillory – Special to In Motion      Growing up, almost every school that I went to made us go outside in that hot sun and run a few laps on the track, but for the result of making kids active and getting our endurance up.       Both Mainland Continue reading A track for Daytona State students<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}