{"id":15300,"date":"2025-10-03T23:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:53:22","slug":"balancing-teaching-and-football-like-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/10\/03\/balancing-teaching-and-football-like-a-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing teaching and football like a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>By Avrey Grimm \u201826, staff writer\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Lukas Ordway spends his day teaching 3<sup>rd<\/sup> graders at Hershey Elementary and his evenings on the football field, proving that dedication and passion go hand in hand.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ordway, a senior early childhood education major, is completing one of his graduation requirement steps, student teaching this semester. He is currently at Hershey Elementary, balancing a full teaching schedule while also playing football, which is no easy task.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am doing two things I love to do,&#8221; Ordway said. &#8220;I enjoy doing both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Managing two big responsibilities takes so much focus, time and discipline. All qualities that Ordway demonstrates in the classroom and on the field. While many students struggle to balance academics with extracurriculars, he is successfully perusing his passion for teaching while continuing his athletic career at LVC.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Avrey Grimm \u201826, staff writer\u00a0 Senior Lukas Ordway spends his day teaching 3rd graders at Hershey Elementary and his evenings on the football field, proving that dedication and passion go hand in hand.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ordway, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/10\/03\/balancing-teaching-and-football-like-a-pro\/\" title=\"Balancing teaching and football like a pro\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-front-page","9":"category-homepage","10":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15964,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions\/15964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}