{"id":319322,"date":"2026-08-12T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:29:00","slug":"brooklyn-center-volunteer-coach-amina-smaller-honored-with-heart-and-sole-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319322\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Center Volunteer Coach Amina Smaller Honored With Heart and Sole Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12:53 PM | Tuesday, August 11, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A big award has come the way of a local volunteer coach. Amina Smaller works with Brooklyn Center Middle School girls and has been awarded the Heart and Sole Award by the Girls on the Run organization.<\/p>\n<p>Amina is in her third year of working with middle school girls through the GOTR program, which fosters leadership, healthy habits and teaches emotional and social skills.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-week program meets twice a week in the spring and began, culminating with a 5K run for the girls.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller is the only middle school coach in the state to receive the Heart and Sole award this year from the Minnesota branch of Girls on the Run.<\/p>\n<p>Amina is the Community Schools Site Coordinator and Youth Development Leader in the Brooklyn Center School District.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Girls on the Run visit their website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotrmn.org\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">gotrmn.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-206183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GOTRSMALLER-PKG-SP-20260811-FH-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Amina Smaller\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/sport\/track-field\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Track &amp; Field<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ccxmedia.org\/sports_programs\/dailysportscast\/\" rel=\"tag follow noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">CCX News &#8211; Daily Sportscast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12:53 PM | Tuesday, August 11, 2026 A big award has come the way of a local volunteer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-319322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319322","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=319322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}