{"id":15529,"date":"2025-09-22T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:59:45","slug":"full-court-passion-brendan-lonergans-road-from-college-hoops-to-a-career-in-sports-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/09\/22\/full-court-passion-brendan-lonergans-road-from-college-hoops-to-a-career-in-sports-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-court passion: Brendan Lonergan\u2019s road from college hoops to a career in sports therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By John Adams '26, staff writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brendan Lonergan has loved basketball his whole life; it has always been his main passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From playing as a kid to refereeing, then coaching and now playing collegiate basketball. His collegiate basketball career started at King's College, a Division III school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in the MAC conference. After spending a year at King's College, Brendan decided that he wanted to pursue a career in physical therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LVC was one of the best schools in the area for physical therapy. This is what made Lonergan decide that he was going to transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lonergan was able to continue his collegiate career here at LVC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBasketball has always been my passion, and I wanted to continue pursuing that passion no matter where I went to school,\u201d Lonergan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lonergan is a 6'5'' forward who has logged some minutes here at LVC. With a big frame and a potent 3-point shot, he's an asset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lonergan\u2019s athletic career has influenced him to pursue his career in physical therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think my basketball career has helped guide me to a career that is centered in the sports world,\u201d Lonergan mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lonergan would love to work with basketball players after graduation. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By John Adams '26, staff writer Brendan Lonergan has loved basketball his whole life; it has always been his main passion. From playing as a kid to refereeing, then coaching and now playing collegiate basketball. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/09\/22\/full-court-passion-brendan-lonergans-road-from-college-hoops-to-a-career-in-sports-therapy\/\" title=\"Full-court passion: Brendan Lonergan\u2019s road from college hoops to a career in sports therapy\">[...]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-features","category-front-page","category-homepage","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529","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=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16881,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions\/16881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}