{"id":3785,"date":"2018-03-01T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:29:29","slug":"staff-spotlight-mike-burrell-receives-kent-union-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/staff-spotlight-mike-burrell-receives-kent-union-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff spotlight: Mike Burrell receives Kent Union award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those who frequent Kent Sport are aware of the burly Mike Burrell who roams the fitness suite and shouts obscenities across the Main Hall during a gruelling Circuits class. Although he has a rough exterior, his aim is push everyone he encounters to be a better version of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s knowledge of the human body and his skill for optimum physical performance is a winning combination in many people&#8217;s eyes. And luckily for him, it hasn&#8217;t gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Union recently presented Mike with an award for going &#8216;Above and Beyond&#8217; which he was nominated by more than 12 people who have experienced Mike&#8217;s winning attitude and upbeat personality throughout Kent Sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, this came as a great surprise! Absolutely honoured to receive this and I am so glad to have such positive feedback&#8230;for just doing my job,&#8221; said Mike when receiving his award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike is an asset to Kent Sport and we&#8217;re really pleased to see him recognised for the hard work he continues to put in day and day out. Mike has a great gym floor presence and engages with several members assisting them with a variety of queries, helping them achieve their goals,&#8221; said Oli Prior, Health, Fitness and Performance Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Wanting to up your game in the gym? The Kent Sport fitness team can give you expert advice \u2013 ask about the personal training and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sports\/healthandfitness\/fitnessconsults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fitness consultations<\/a>. To stay up to date with Kent Sport news and\u00a0events, Like\u00a0UniKentSports\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unikentsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unikentsports\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unikentsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/news\/?id=9483&amp;source=blog\">Kent Union Above and Beyond award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those who frequent Kent Sport are aware of the burly Mike Burrell who roams the fitness suite and shouts obscenities across the Main &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/staff-spotlight-mike-burrell-receives-kent-union-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5725,"featured_media":3788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3835,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentsport-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}