{"id":67924,"date":"2013-08-23T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=67924"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:06:56","slug":"espnw-profiles-resilient-former-nordic-skier-kaitlyn-mcelroy-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/23\/espnw-profiles-resilient-former-nordic-skier-kaitlyn-mcelroy-07\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPNW profiles resilient former Nordic skier Kaitlyn McElroy &#8217;07"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67925\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/McElroy-Kaitlyn_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67925\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67925 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/McElroy-Kaitlyn_2-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"Former Nordic skier Kaitlyn McElroy '07 has found new purpose in kayaking.\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/McElroy-Kaitlyn_2-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/McElroy-Kaitlyn_2-600x549.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/08\/McElroy-Kaitlyn_2.jpg 1467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Nordic skier Kaitlyn McElroy &#8217;07 has found new purpose in kayaking.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ESPNW features the story of Kaitlyn McElroy \u201907, a former Nordic skier at Bates College, who is competing at the kayak world championships in Germany after a skiing training accident forced her to switch sports.<\/p>\n<p>After breaking an arm and a few ribs and injuring her back in the accident, McElroy attempted to return to skiing but could not perform at the same level she had before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Bethel, Maine, found it difficult to move on from skiing but has found new purpose in the sport of kayaking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed skiing tremendously, and I still do, but I definitely fond something I love just as much if not more,\u201d McElroy tells ESPNW.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espnw\/athletes-life\/summer-of-w\/article\/9585050\/espnw-kayaking-suits-kaitlyn-mcelroy\">View the full story from ESPNW<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPNW features the story of Kaitlyn McElroy \u201907, a former Nordic skier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":67925,"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,"_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":[7,24,11009],"tags":[73,83,11051,161],"class_list":["post-67924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-the-college","tag-1900s","tag-2000s","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-health-and-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67924"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149490,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924\/revisions\/149490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}