{"id":102761,"date":"2016-08-12T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=102761"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:10:55","slug":"video-skip-capone-the-old-football-coach-tries-a-new-sport-girls-high-school-lacrosse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/12\/video-skip-capone-the-old-football-coach-tries-a-new-sport-girls-high-school-lacrosse\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Skip Capone, the old football coach, finds a new sport and a new way to give back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year assistant football coach at Bates, Skip Capone is also a coaching legend in Lewiston who led the Blue Devils to a state football championship in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Capone found a new way to give back to his community, by coaching the Lewiston girls lacrosse team.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the sport, Capone brings high energy and fun to his athletes. &#8220;It&#8217;s about having fun,&#8221; he says while coaching his lacrosse players. &#8220;If you have energy as a coach, the kids feed off of that, and it&#8217;s no different with the linemen at Bates or here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates College&#039;s Skip Capone: A coach for all seasons\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ICzj4aGyOzc?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime assistant football coach at Bates and Lewiston football coaching legend, Capone is now giving back to his community in a new way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":102762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[10875,10830],"class_list":["post-102761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-football","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102761\/revisions\/102769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}