{"id":3368,"date":"2026-09-10T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:49:56","slug":"student-stories-allana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=3368","title":{"rendered":"Student Stories: Allana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video OU graduate Allana Francis-Ashmeil shares how studying sport and exercise helped her to develop her skills as a sports coach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How The Open University Helped Me Become a Football Coach\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnbF-9Sa8Tg?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>For more from Allana, check out these previous posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/?p=1412\" >Student Story: Allana Francis-Ashmeil | OU Sport &amp; Exercise Team Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6cJYECtH6hk\" >Experience vs Qualifications: reflections from an OU graduate and Sports Coach<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video OU graduate Allana Francis-Ashmeil shares how studying sport and exercise helped her to develop her skills as a sports coach. For more from Allana, check out these previous posts: Student Story: Allana Francis-Ashmeil | OU Sport &amp; Exercise Team Blog Experience vs Qualifications: reflections from an OU graduate and Sports Coach<\/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-3368","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\/3368","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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/OU-Sport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}