{"id":12674,"date":"2015-07-22T22:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=12674"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:56","slug":"doctoral-candidate-starting-pitcher-for-pan-am-baseball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/doctoral-candidate-starting-pitcher-for-pan-am-baseball-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Candidate Starting Pitcher for Pan Am Baseball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Doctoral Candidate Starting Pitcher for Pan Am Baseball Team\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/Melissa-Armstrong-BB-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Armstrong throwing a  baseball\" class=\"wp-image-24635\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/melissa-armstron\">Melissa Armstrong<\/a>, who is working on a doctorate on the provision of health care by the African National Congress under the supervision of Professor Susanne Klausen, has been selected as a starting pitcher for the Canadian women&#8217;s baseball team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong, who is also a recipient of a Vanier Scholarship, is quoted in an article by ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´&#8217;s Awards office: \u201cThis is a very exciting opportunity for me. It is a historic moment being the first time women\u2019s baseball has been included in a multi-sport games. There is a lot of hype, lots of media, it will help to develop the sport and let people know women play baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy academics and my training keep me balanced,\u201d said Armstrong. \u201cI think I would go crazy if I spent all my time reading or going to school, so I often hit the new gym at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ or train in the pool. I am extremely lucky to have a supervisor, Susanne Klausen, who is very flexible and accommodating. She understand and allows me the time I need to train and to play baseball during the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2015\/phd-student-now-starting-pitcher-for-canadian-womens-pan-am-baseball-team\/\">http:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2015\/phd-student-now-starting-pitcher-for-canadian-womens-pan-am-baseball-team\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Armstrong&#8217;s research see her profile at &nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/melissa-armstrong\/\">http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/melissa-armstrong\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Armstrong, who is working on a doctorate on the provision of health care by the African National Congress under the supervision of Professor Susanne Klausen, has been selected as a starting pitcher for the Canadian women&#8217;s baseball team. Armstrong, who is also a recipient of a Vanier Scholarship, is quoted in an article by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-12674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-graduate"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12674\/revisions\/12679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}