{"id":118289,"date":"2026-02-19T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118289\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:07","slug":"villanova-athletes-mentor-pennsylvania-middle-school-students-inspiring-confidence-and-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118289\/","title":{"rendered":"Villanova Athletes Mentor Pennsylvania Middle School Students, Inspiring Confidence And Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student-athletes at Villanova University are giving back in a powerful way. Through a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/villanova-university-radnor-middle-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mentorship program with Radnor Middle School<\/a>, they&#8217;re helping young boys gain confidence and see what they&#8217;re capable of.<\/p>\n<p>One of those students, 13-year-old Jaylen Bostick, said the program changed how he thinks about school and his future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I would just go to high school and slack off,&#8221; Jaylen said. &#8220;But now, I&#8217;m getting into a lot of honors. My grades are so much better than they were. Going on to high school, I plan to keep these good grades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS Local Digital Media personalizes the global reach of CBS-owned and operated television and radio stations with a local perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student-athletes at Villanova University are giving back in a powerful way. Through a mentorship program with Radnor Middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-118289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}