{"id":88754,"date":"2025-08-17T04:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88754\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:23:07","slug":"west-mifflin-native-wnba-champion-tanisha-wright-hosts-back-to-school-bash-for-local-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88754\/","title":{"rendered":"West Mifflin native, WNBA champion Tanisha Wright hosts back-to-school bash for local students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  West Mifflin native, WNBA champion Tanisha Wright hosts back-to-school bash for local students <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7989d510cae681e5d6aaea47f2cfee85.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/video\/west-mifflin-native-wnba-champion-tanisha-wright-hosts-back-to-school-bash-for-local-students\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          West Mifflin native, WNBA champion Tanisha Wright hosts back-to-school bash for local students<\/p>\n<p>          00:48<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary Parker Memorial Park in West Mifflin was the site Saturday afternoon of a special back-to-school bash put on by a local WNBA champion.<\/p>\n<p>West Mifflin native and current Chicago Sky assistant coach Tanisha Wright hosted local kids for both a school supplies giveaway as well as a ribbon-cutting for the park&#8217;s newest basketball court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is an event Wright puts on every year, and she told KDKA-TV that it&#8217;s the least she can do to give back to her hometown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a kid walks into school with a nice backpack on and something that they&#8217;ve picked out and they like, it&#8217;s a cool thing for them. I think that excites them. I think that gives them an energy to start the school year,&#8221; Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Wright also hosted a mini basketball clinic for the kids who came out. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Mifflin native, WNBA champion Tanisha Wright hosts back-to-school bash for local students West Mifflin native, WNBA champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3876,99,35898,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-88754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-back-to-school","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-west-mifflin","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}