{"id":384379,"date":"2026-07-23T22:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384379\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:08:09","slug":"spurs-julian-champagnie-joins-usaa-esports-tournament-honoring-gold-star-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/384379\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs\u2019 Julian Champagnie joins USAA esports tournament honoring Gold Star families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Spurs player Julian Champagnie joined USAA employees Thursday, July 23, at the company\u2019s headquarters for an event honoring Gold Star families and supporting military children.<\/p>\n<p>Champagnie took part in the Gold Star Gamers\u2019 Cup, an esports competition hosted by USAA that returned for its second year. <\/p>\n<p>The video game tournament brought together USAA employees to compete in honor of Gold Star families, a designation for immediate relatives of U.S. military service members who lost their lives in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Champagnie also participated in Operation Homefront\u2019s Back-to-School Brigade, a volunteer effort held across USAA campuses to assemble 7,400 backpacks for military kids nationwide, including 1,400 in San Antonio. <\/p>\n<p>The backpacks were assembled with USAA\u2019s nonprofit partner, Operation Homefront.<\/p>\n<p>The event ran from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at USAA Headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; Spurs player Julian Champagnie joined USAA employees Thursday, July 23, at the company\u2019s headquarters for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-384379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384379","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=384379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}