{"id":14048,"date":"2026-04-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:41:36","slug":"physical-education-student-powers-through-to-earn-2026-cps-student-heroes-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2026\/04\/27\/physical-education-student-powers-through-to-earn-2026-cps-student-heroes-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Education student powers through to earn 2026 CPS Student Heroes Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a life\u2011altering car accident in 2012 left him paralyzed from the armpits down, Dominnic Fillmore chose perseverance over limitation. Through years of rehabilitation, full\u2011time work and continued education, he demonstrated that resilience is built through daily commitment and purpose. Now pursuing a degree in physical education at UW\u2011Stevens Point, Dominnic is preparing to become the kind of teacher who leads by example\u2014showing students that determination, adaptability and self\u2011belief can overcome even the most profound challenges. His journey inspires others to push forward, advocate for themselves and believe in what is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his efforts, Dom was presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/cps\/college-of-professional-studies\/giving\/heroes-awards\/\">2026 College of Professional Studies Dick Cable and Judy Cable Anderson Student Heroes Award<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VU4lIVNfquY\">Watch his story!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2026 UWSP College of Professional Studies Student Heroes Award: Dominnic Fillmore\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VU4lIVNfquY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a life\u2011altering car accident in 2012 left him paralyzed from the armpits down, Dominnic Fillmore chose perseverance over limitation. Through years of rehabilitation, full\u2011time work and continued education, he demonstrated that resilience is built through daily commitment and purpose. Now pursuing a degree in physical education at UW\u2011Stevens Point, Dominnic is preparing to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,13],"tags":[305,342,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14060,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions\/14060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}