{"id":3111,"date":"2025-01-23T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:28:12","slug":"student-stories-gregg-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Student Stories: Gregg Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Being an OU graduate has changed my life significantly&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the video below Paralympic champion and army veteran Gregg Stevenson shares his experience of studying for a BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching at The Open University.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>&#8220;Winning the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games was a incredible feeling. It felt like such a celebration of all the hard work that&#8217;s gone into this journey &#8211; you know the sport psychology work, the sports coaching work that I did on my undergrad&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My story: Gregg Stevenson\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eH8opTR3QmM?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being an OU graduate has changed my life significantly&#8221; In the video below Paralympic champion and army veteran Gregg Stevenson shares his experience of studying for a BSc (hons) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching at The Open University. &#8220;Winning the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games was a incredible feeling. It felt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}