{"id":52705,"date":"2025-12-05T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52705\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:29:09","slug":"nonprofit-donates-shoes-to-scranton-high-school-wrestling-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52705\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit donates shoes to Scranton high school wrestling team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Build-N-Athlete donated 25 pairs of shoes to the Scranton High Junior Varsity Wrestling team.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A nonprofit is giving back to a high school wrestling program in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Build-N-Athlete donated 25 pairs of shoes to the Scranton High Junior Varsity Wrestling team, totaling more than $1,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit&#8217;s founders say financial barriers can often prevent children from participating in sports, and they are committed to making the activity accessible for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s really been cool to see just the impact you&#8217;re having on young athletes. A lot times, they just need confidence, and that&#8217;s what equates with equipment,&#8221; said Jon Casey, Build-N-Athlete, Co-founder. &#8220;You know, if you give them something that&#8217;s new and that&#8217;s their own, they take ownership of that, and you really see that develop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wrestling shoes were dropped off today at Scranton High and will be distributed to team members later.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Build-N-Athlete donated 25 pairs of shoes to the Scranton High Junior Varsity Wrestling team. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-52705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52705","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=52705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}