{"id":397913,"date":"2026-09-12T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397913\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:36:09","slug":"university-of-miami-students-walk-9-11-miles-carrying-35-pound-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397913\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Miami students walk 9.11 miles carrying 35-pound bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 12, 2026 at 8:22 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla.  \u2014 Holly Demaria was among the determined University of Miami students who met before sunrise on Saturday to walk 9.11 miles, while carrying 35-pound bags. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Demaria participated in the Ruck To Remember, an annual tradition by members of the Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps to honor the first responders of the attacks on <a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.911memorial.org\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/timeline.911memorial.org\/\">Sept. 11, 2001.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA lot of people from our generation don\u2019t realize how impactful it was,\u201d Demaria said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/911groundzero.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/911groundzero.com\/\">killed 2,977<\/a>, including 441 emergency responders in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Exposure to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/wtc\/exhibition\/toxins-and-health-impacts.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/wtc\/exhibition\/toxins-and-health-impacts.html\"> toxic dust from Ground Zero<\/a> also caused suffering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cComing out here every year, and sort of taking time to carry the weight, makes us really think about it,\u201d Sophia Martin said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Members and supporters of the Veterans Student Group, Miami Ruck Club, G5 Athletics, and the Wounded Warrior Project also participated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related links<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Gabrielle Arzola\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/78673faa-0bcf-4b53-bb07-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Gabrielle Arzola<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Gabrielle Arzola is an award-winning journalist and proud Miami native. For nearly a decade, she has reported across Florida, with previous stops in Gainesville and Tampa before returning home to cover the community she loves most.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 12, 2026 at 8:22 AM Updated:\u00a0September 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 Holly Demaria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-397913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397913","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=397913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}