{"id":171878,"date":"2026-02-19T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:42:06","slug":"texas-tech-students-successful-college-gameday-kick-leads-to-donation-for-volunteer-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/171878\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech student\u2019s successful College Gameday kick leads to donation for Volunteer Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Volunteer Center of Lubbock has been named as the charitable recipient in connection with ESPN\u2019s College GameDay kicking contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech student John Machtolff was selected to participate in Pat McAfee\u2019s live kicking challenge when the show was in Lubbock for Texas Tech vs BYU. After a failed first attempt, Machtolff successfully completed the kick on the second try, securing a donation for a charity in Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier this year, the Volunteer Center of Lubbock was informed that Machtolff chose the organization as the beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe were truly blown away by John\u2019s decision,\u201d Emily Smith, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center of Lubbock, said. \u201cThis generous gift will allow us to expand our ability to connect volunteers, develop leaders, and strengthen nonprofit partnerships throughout our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Members of the Volunteer Center team recently met with Machtolff to personally thank him for his support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Volunteer Center of Lubbock serves as a hub for volunteer engagement and leadership development in the region, connecting thousands of individuals to meaningful service opportunities each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Volunteer Center of Lubbock has been named as the charitable recipient in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20682,7000,17322,168,170,169,69471,1769,69472],"class_list":["post-171878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-college-gameday","tag-espn","tag-kick","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-successful","tag-texas-tech","tag-volunteer-center-of-lubbock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}