{"id":7651,"date":"2017-04-07T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=7651"},"modified":"2017-06-05T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:19:28","slug":"a-champions-heart-2017-cps-heroes-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2017\/04\/07\/a-champions-heart-2017-cps-heroes-award\/","title":{"rendered":"A Champion&#8217;s Heart: 2017 CPS Heroes Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7644\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7644\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7644\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407.jpg\" alt=\"hermsenhero20170407\" width=\"580\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/hermsenhero20170407-136x70.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Logan Hermsen with Dick Cable and Judy Cable Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After his mom had a brain tumor, Logan Hermsen had to grow up fast and help raise his two brothers. Now, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point senior is a two-time NCAA wrestling national champion and wants to go into a career in health care, inspired by his mother&#8217;s journey. For that, he has earned the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/cps\/Pages\/heroesaward.aspx\">College of Professional Studies Heroes Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h_6aKBICPD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Heroes Award is a $1,000 scholarship created initially through an endowment in honor of Casey Gazdik, a health promotion\/wellness major, who died in 2001 from the rare lung infection of blastomycosis. Now, the award is funded through Casey\u2019s fund and other generous donations from people who wish to honor their own hero. This year\u2019s award is given in honor of Dick Cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his mom had a brain tumor, Logan Hermsen had to grow up fast and help raise his two brothers. Now, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point senior is a two-time NCAA wrestling national champion and wants to go into a career in health care, inspired by his mother&#8217;s journey. For that, he has earned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,13,14,453],"tags":[305,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651"}],"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=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7825,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions\/7825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}