{"id":4983,"date":"2016-03-23T19:02:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2016-03-24T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T21:24:12","slug":"vbcps-students-finish-strong-in-shamrock-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/vbcps-students-finish-strong-in-shamrock-races\/","title":{"rendered":"VBCPS students finish strong in Shamrock races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cold, windy and rainy weekend March 19-20 didn\u2019t dampen the spirits of thousands of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students and staff who participated in races associated Shamrock Marathon Weekend, hosted by J&amp;A Racing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shamrock-fun-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"shamrock fun\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shamrock-fun-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shamrock-fun-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shamrock-fun-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/shamrock-fun-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to race organizers, 3,110 students from 50 VBCPS elementary schools participated in the Operation Smile Shamrock Final Mile. These runners accounted for approximately 72 percent of all Final Mile participants.<\/p>\n<p>Participants ran 25.2 miles at home or school and then ran the final mile of their marathon Saturday, March 19.\u00a0Three elementary schools \u2013 Alanton, Indian Lakes and Three Oaks \u2013 had more than 200 participants in the Final Mile. Ten elementary schools had 100 or more participants, and 19 schools had 50 or more participants. Creeds Elementary School had the highest percentage of student participation at 61 percent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Creeds.jpg\" alt=\"Creeds\" width=\"3702\" height=\"2776\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VBCPS students also participated in the weekend\u2019s ACCESS College Foundation 8K Student Challenge. Race organizers indicated that 238 students from 14 VBCPS middle schools and 105 students from 12 VBCPS high schools ran the 8K. Kemps Landing and First Colonial High School had the highest percentages of student participation at their respective secondary levels.<\/p>\n<p>School division teachers, administrators and staff also ran in the weekend\u2019s 8K, half-marathon and marathon races. Most notably, Carla Serex, office associate in the Department of Teaching and Learning, was featured on the event booklet\u2019s cover as well as in the event calendar for July.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Carla.jpg\" alt=\"Carla\" width=\"2547\" height=\"3238\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>To view photos from of VBCPS students in the Final Mile race, visit the VBSchools Facebook page <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.945630755552282.1073742040.299985226783508&amp;type=3\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cold, windy and rainy weekend March 19-20 didn\u2019t dampen the spirits of thousands of Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students and staff who participated in races associated Shamrock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,99],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creeds","tag-notable-achievements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}