{"id":174268,"date":"2026-03-25T05:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:11:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-olympian-kristen-santos-griswold-makes-hometown-visit-to-fairfield-warde-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174268\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Olympian Kristen Santos-Griswold makes hometown visit to Fairfield Warde High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic speed-skater Kristen Santos-Griswold paid her first visit to Fairfield Warde High School since graduating. <\/p>\n<p>The hometown hero was recognized by First Selectperson Christine Vitale on Tuesday for her achievements and representation of the Fairfield community with a proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympian also met with students to talk about her journey to the 2022 and 2026 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing is to find your own path. Find what works for you. Do what makes you happy. I think it&#8217;s really easy to see things that other people are doing and feel like that&#8217;s what you have to be doing as well,\u201d said Santos-Griswold. &#8220;As long as you&#8217;re doing what feels right for you, then you&#8217;re doing the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usspeedskating.org\/profiles\/kristen-santos-griswold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santos-Griswold<\/a> has also competed in five World Championships and one World Junior Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic speed-skater Kristen Santos-Griswold paid her first visit to Fairfield Warde High School since graduating. The hometown hero&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,29882,28819,9,24,63,70950,23717],"class_list":["post-174268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fairfield","tag-milan-cortina-games","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-olympians","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}