{"id":3883,"date":"2022-11-07T16:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2022-11-07T16:06:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:06:47","slug":"eakins-forms-fast-friendship-with-inspirational-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2022\/11\/07\/eakins-forms-fast-friendship-with-inspirational-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Eakins Forms Fast Friendship with &#8216;Inspirational Young Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-item__preview\">\n<p>Ducks head coach Dallas Eakins spends his summers on the move.<\/p>\n<p>An active guy at heart, Eakins has an unrelenting desire for self-improvement. Over the last few years, the Ducks bench boss has made a habit of traveling to observe prominent coaching staffs across multiple mediums, hoping to learn more about how others manage the challenges of overseeing a complex operation.<\/p>\n<p>This past summer, one of those trips was to Tuscaloosa for some time studying the University of Alabama football program and legendary head coach Nick Saban.<\/p>\n<p>Saban&#8217;s reign at the highest peaks of the college football world are well-known, as are his patented snark and obsessive attention to detail. He&#8217;s a seven-time national champion, a former NFL head coach and will surely go down as one of the best coaches in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>For Eakins, the trip was a chance to gain some valuable insight in a place much different from home, in the midst of one of the profession&#8217;s greats. What he didn&#8217;t expect was to meet an influential figure from just down the road, 30 years his junior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-item__body\">\n<p>In some ways, Eakins and Alex Chery are quite alike. Chery, a 16-year-old from Newport Beach, is a fitness fiend himself, constantly eager to learn more about self-improvement and what drives elite athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ducks\/news\/eakins-forms-fast-friendship-with-inspirational-young-man\/c-336954770\">Read more here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ducks head coach Dallas Eakins spends his summers on the move. An active guy at heart, Eakins has an unrelenting desire for self-improvement. Over the last few years, the Ducks bench boss has made a habit of traveling to observe prominent coaching staffs across multiple mediums, hoping to learn more about how others manage the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"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=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}