{"id":204726,"date":"2026-03-05T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:38:10","slug":"fcc-women-athletes-read-to-elementary-children-for-read-across-america-week-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204726\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Women Athletes Read To Elementary Children For Read Across America Week \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fresno City College women\u2019s soccer and cheer team visited Fremont Elementary School for National Read Across America Week which began on Dr. Seuss\u2019s birthday, March 2. The annual celebration created by the National Education Association<\/a> promotes reading to children and young adults.<\/p>\n

FCC cheer base player Ailyn Jimenez said that reading in front of elementary schoolers felt similar to the ram\u2019s cheer routines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have an audience so you just want to be smiling at all times, giving them full energy,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n

Jimenz was once in the students\u2019 position when cheerleaders from her nearby high school would read to her when she was a child. She was glad to be the one reading this time.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ailyn Jimenez reading \u201cBe Strong\u201d by Pat Zietlow to students at Fremont Elementary on March 3. (Photo by: Sara B. Cisneros<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Athletes were given several children\u2019s books to choose from that were compiled by Fremont\u2019s librarian, Marie Callahan.<\/p>\n

She said that diversity was something she and her team looked for when picking out books.<\/p>\n

Jimenez read \u201cBe Strong\u201d by Pat Zietlow. She said she chose that book because it reminded her\u00a0<\/p>\n

of what it\u2019s like being a cheerleader.<\/p>\n

Callahan said she\u2019s participated in Read Across America for 10 years, the same amount of time that she\u2019s worked as a librarian at Fremont Elementary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey look forward to it. They\u2019re always asking \u2018when is Read Across America?\u2019 So they love this day. And then we also have activities that go with it, like today will be \u2018write a positive message with chalk on the sidewalk.\u2019 Yesterday was \u2018color a bookmark\u2019 so we have different days,\u201d Callahan said.<\/p>\n

Two players of the FCC Women\u2019s Soccer team were excited to read to the students of Fremont Elementary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ashtyn Edwards is a kinesiology major who plays center back for the Rams, and Alyssa Hernandez is a liberal arts major who also plays center back.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Left to right) Alyssa Hernandez and Ashtyn Edwards outside of the classroom at Fremont Elementary, holding up the books that they had read to students. Taken on March 3. (Photo by: Juan Muratalla<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Both players picked books that were read to them as kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom would read to me when I was really little, and it was probably my favorite book she would read, and she\u2019d do all the voices for all the characters,\u201d Edwards said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She read \u201cPut Me In the Zoo\u201d by Robert Lopshire.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ashtyn Edwards reading a book to a group of students at Fremont Elementary on March 3. (Photo by: Juan Muratalla<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Edwards said this book encouraged her to read as a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s just a book that made me like to read. So I wanted to bring it to all the little elementary schoolers to maybe give them that same effect,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Alyssa Hernandez laughing and reading to a group of students at Fremont Elementary on March 3. (Photo by: Juan Muratalla<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Hernandez chose two books to read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI chose \u2018Biscuit,\u2019 and \u2018There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed\u00a0 A Clover\u2019 because it\u2019s March and St Patrick\u2019s Day,\u201d Hernandez said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She believes these books are a must read when you are young.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re both staple books when [you\u2019re] little. And Biscuits, parents read it to you, like a nighttime kind of thing. And then the old lady one was just what I would read at school a lot when I was little, and it\u2019s fun,\u201d Hernandez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno City College women\u2019s soccer and cheer team visited Fremont Elementary School for National Read Across America…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-204726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}