{"id":73517,"date":"2016-08-08T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/leopard-sharks-host-swim-a-thon\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T23:30:18","slug":"leopard-sharks-host-swim-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/leopard-sharks-host-swim-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard Sharks host swim-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=30f27544-0325-4c8e-a84c-4a3c51b65160&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1931\" height=\"1296\" alt=\"Judy Ha pushes off the wall and cuts through the water during the Cortez Leopard Sharks\u2019 swim-a-thon on Thursday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Judy Ha pushes off the wall and cuts through the water during the Cortez Leopard Sharks\u2019 swim-a-thon on Thursday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jardyn Angell\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez Leopard Sharks swim club hosted a swim-a-thon on Thursday evening at the Cortez Municipal Swimming Pool.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen swimmers, as well as head coach Ian MacLaren, took to the water to raise money for the club.<\/p>\n<p>They had two hours to complete as many laps as possible \u2013 with a 100-lap maximum \u2013 and received pledges from sponsors to donate either on a per-lap basis or as a lump sum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019ve never really done before,\u201d MacLaren explained. \u201cSo I thought it was cool that the kids were able to go out into the community and get sponsors, and we certainly appreciate everyone who put forth some money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thunder and lightning, followed by rain, forced the Leopard Sharks to exit the pool a bit before their two-hour time limit was up, but MacLaren said that by that time most of the swimmers were finished.<\/p>\n<p>The club awarded gift cards to the swimmers that completed the most laps and USA Swimming donated prizes as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a lot of fun,\u201d said MacLaren. \u201cI thought it was great that we had so many kids come out and celebrate our season with something fun like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Club treasurer Candi Duran said that swimmers have until August 18 to collect donations, but that they have already received over $1,500 and are well on their way to reaching their $3,000 goal.<\/p>\n<p>Five percent of the donations will go to the USA Swimming Foundation, but the remaining funds will be used for Leopard Sharks scholarships and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>club partners with USA Swimming Foundation for fundraiser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73517"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}