{"id":386165,"date":"2026-08-31T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386165\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:54:11","slug":"central-florida-teens-compete-in-american-ninja-warrior-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/386165\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Florida teens compete in &#8220;American Ninja Warrior&#8221; finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today: Central Florida teens compete to in &#8220;American Ninja Warrior&#8221; finals<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788188051_671_0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Central Florida \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Two Central Florida teens are among 21 competitors vying for $250,000 in the finals of &#8220;American Ninja Warrior,&#8221; airing Monday night. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Nacssa Garemore, 18, from Ocala, has an impressive history with the show.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">He competed twice on &#8220;American Ninja Warrior Junior,&#8221; becoming a quarterfinalist in his first season and taking second place in his second season. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Garemore has also participated in seasons 15 through 17 of &#8220;American Ninja Warrior.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">In his first two seasons, Garemore competed alongside his brother. He made it to the finals last year and is now looking to win.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Fifteen-year-old Aaron Deal from Windermere is a rookie this year. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Deal previously competed on the junior version of &#8220;American Ninja Warrior&#8221; and has been a fan of the show since he was 5 years old.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">&#8220;American Ninja Warrior&#8221; airs tonight at 8 p.m. on WESH 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today: Central Florida teens compete to in &#8220;American Ninja Warrior&#8221; finals Central Florida \u2014 Two Central Florida teens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139188,154760,5246,89135,154762,20547,117819,28,30,29,154759,90547,154763,154761,4827,2483,918,2643,164],"class_list":["post-386165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-american-ninja-warrior","tag-central-florida-teen","tag-deal","tag-fields","tag-fifteen-year-old-aaron-deal","tag-final","tag-first-season","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-nacssa-garemore","tag-rookie","tag-second-place","tag-second-season","tag-show","tag-today","tag-wesh","tag-windermere","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}