{"id":5276,"date":"2015-09-03T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T23:13:32","slug":"middle-college-student-takes-second-place-in-alcatraz-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/middle-college-student-takes-second-place-in-alcatraz-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle College Student Takes Second Place in Alcatraz Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/09\/Andrea-Flores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5253 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/09\/Andrea-Flores.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Flores\" width=\"380\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>On Sunday morning, August 23, 2015 Middle College at Skyline College student Andrea Flores dove into the San Francisco Bay to compete in the Touch Alcatraz \u2018n Go annual open water race. She started at the Aquatic Park beach and swam round-trip 2.5 miles to Alcatraz Island in the time of 1:06:50 taking second place in the all-ages coed competition! \u00a0An open water race has no lane lines, walls, or starting blocks\u00a0to dictate what it takes to win.\u00a0 It\u00a0requires swimming strength along with the ability to navigate a winning course against complex currents. This was Andrea\u2019s very first competitive race, to prepare she swam two miles a day, six days a week for a month and monitored her diet, eating proteins, fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 When asked about future open water competition, the sixteen year old replied, \u201cIn the future want to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the English Channel between Britain and France, and the Strait of Magellan between the tip of South America and Tierra del Fuego.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Middle College students take a combination of core high school courses and college courses to receive their high school diploma plus achieve one or more of the following three goals: earning a career technical education certificate; earning units toward an associate degree; and earning transferable units to a four-year institution of higher education.\u00a0 The Middle College main office is located in Building 2, Room 2304.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Raymond Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning, August 23, 2015 Middle College at Skyline College student Andrea Flores dove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}