{"id":12064,"date":"2019-07-24T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12064"},"modified":"2019-07-24T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T03:00:46","slug":"deveau-announces-retirement-from-track-and-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12064","title":{"rendered":"Deveau announces retirement from track and field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER: <\/strong>After\n 10-plus years of competing on the track-and-field scene, Bridget Deveau\n said the competition has taken it\u2019s toll on her body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post  on her Facebook and Instagram pages, the Fall River product announced  that she is retiring from the sport. She represented Canada at the recently held 2019  FISU Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI did not have the \nperformance I was hoping for, but my body was definitely telling me it\u2019s\n time to shut it down,\u201d said Deveau in her post. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful I had \nthe privilege to run my last laps around the track wearing my country\u2019s \nflag on my chest, a dream I have had since I started running track so \nmany years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will forever be grateful of everything this sport has given me and all of\n the friends I have made and support I have received. I am so proud to \nhave represented Chebucto Athletics, Nova Scotia, UMass, and now Canada \ntoo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She thanked her coach\n at UMass coach David Jackson who has had such an impact on her during \nthe past six year and got her to Naples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\n big red circle will always hold a special place in my heart and I will \nalways be a part of the Athletics community,\u201d she said. \u201cThank you to \neveryone who has had an impact on me and helped me to go after my goals.\n I\u2019m so thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: After 10-plus years of competing on the track-and-field scene, Bridget Deveau said the competition has taken it\u2019s toll on her body. In a post on her Facebook and Instagram pages, the Fall River product announced that she is retiring from the sport. She represented Canada at the recently held 2019 FISU Summer Universiade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[306,2,5,307,486],"class_list":["post-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-bridget-deveau","tag-fall-river","tag-lockview-high","tag-track-and-field","tag-umass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}