{"id":290499,"date":"2026-05-13T02:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:15:24","slug":"planoite-and-olympic-athlete-amber-glenn-to-be-honored-with-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290499\/","title":{"rendered":"Planoite and Olympic athlete Amber Glenn to be honored with proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmber Glenn\u2019s story is one of determination, resilience and heart,\u201d said Plano Mayor John Muns.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Planoite <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/plano-native-grand-prix-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Glenn<\/a>, a recent Olympic gold-medal figure skater, will be honored by the City of Plano with a public reception and proclamation ceremony on Thursday, May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn won a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan in the team skating competition and finished in fifth overall.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn began skating at age 5 and won a Junior National Championship and three consecutive Senior U.S. National Championships, before her recent Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though only 26, Glenn was the oldest American woman in nearly a century to compete in Olympic figure skating and the oldest Olympian to successfully land a triple axel, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmber Glenn\u2019s story is one of determination, resilience and heart,\u201d said Plano Mayor John <a href=\"https:\/\/planomagazine.com\/muns-in-seoul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muns<\/a>. \u201cPlano is proud to celebrate not only her achievements on the world stage, but also the example she sets for young athletes and our entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ceremony is open to the public and will take place at the Florence Shapiro Council Chambers at Plano Municipal Center, 1520 K Avenue, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAmber Glenn\u2019s story is one of determination, resilience and heart,\u201d said Plano Mayor John Muns. &#13; Planoite Amber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-290499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290499","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=290499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}