{"id":35713,"date":"2025-11-16T11:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:11:22","slug":"alvernia-womens-lacrosse-team-signs-special-new-member-reading-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35713\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvernia women’s lacrosse team signs special new member | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. \u2013 Alvernia University welcomed its newest student-athlete on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Izzy Rivera was officially welcomed to the woman’s lacrosse team in a signing ceremony.<\/p>\n

It’s all part of “Team IMPACT.”<\/a> The nonprofit pairs children who have a lifelong disability or illness with a college sports team.<\/p>\n

Rivera will spend the next two years alongside the team, attending practices and games.<\/p>\n

Her parents say it’s not just about what the team can give to her, but what she can give the team.<\/p>\n

Rivera’s parents say the goal for their daughter is to encourage movement, gain confidence and make social connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 Alvernia University welcomed its newest student-athlete on Thursday. Izzy Rivera was officially welcomed to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2961,21223,128,130,129,21224],"class_list":["post-35713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alvernia-university","tag-izzy-rivera","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-team-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713","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=35713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}