{"id":3784,"date":"2022-05-16T16:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:27:34","slug":"hurdler-never-gives-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2022\/05\/16\/hurdler-never-gives-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NEVER GIVE UP! This Young Hurdler Didn&#8217;t Let a Fall Determine Her Race!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Dennis of Old Tappan High School showed the ultimate determination this past weekend. During her preliminary heat of the 100m Hurdles at the Bergen County Championships in New Jersey she took a hard fall on the second hurdle. Instead of throwing in the towel, she hopped right up and kept racing. She was able to work her way back into the race and finish first overall in her heat and second overall in the preliminary rounds. Her grit and determination earned her a spot in the final where she took FIRST overall in a new Personal Best time of 14.28!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a bit of a choppy start in the prelims so I kind\u2019ve expected not to do as well as I would\u2019ve liked, but I didn\u2019t expect that superman fall, but when I knew I didn\u2019t hurt anything, I knew that I had to redeem myself because no one wants to go out like that in counties,\u201d said Dennis. Dennis\u2019s also won the 100 on Friday and the 200 today to help lead Old Tappan to the Group B team title.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3784-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hurdles.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hurdles.mp4\">https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Hurdles.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video of Aigail&#8217;s race has gone viral on social media, and for good reason! Her persistence and determination prove that the race is never over until the end so keep pushing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abigail Dennis of Old Tappan High School showed the ultimate determination this past weekend. During her preliminary heat of the 100m Hurdles at the Bergen County Championships in New Jersey she took a hard fall on the second hurdle. Instead of throwing in the towel, she hopped right up and kept racing. She was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}