{"id":256108,"date":"2026-04-18T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:03:22","slug":"student-finishes-three-city-triathlon-in-memory-of-family-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256108\/","title":{"rendered":"Student finishes three-city triathlon in memory of family friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRYAN, Texas \u2013 A Texas college student participated in a triathlon to inspire others after losing a family friend to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The event took place on Friday, April 17, in the Waco, Temple, and Bryan areas.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Bolline, a local college student, raced in honor of Charlie Van Eman, who died from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>A cancer survivor himself, Bolline says he wants to show people it&#8217;s possible to bear the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas A&amp;M Triathlon Club gave two completion medals to Charlie&#8217;s brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The event was so successful that Bolline is already planning on participating in another event this upcoming September.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He also plans to work on behalf of Adam&#8217;s Army Foundation, a non-profit set up to help the families of children fighting pediatric cancer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN, Texas \u2013 A Texas college student participated in a triathlon to inspire others after losing a family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-256108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-san-antonio","9":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","10":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256108","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=256108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}