{"id":3550,"date":"2022-11-10T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T12:41:08","slug":"sporting-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet some of our sports scholarship stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"alert alert--tertiary\">\n<h4>Are you a sporting fanatic? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sports\/scholarships\">No matter your sport, there could be a scholarship for you.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Meet some of our sport scholars.<\/p>\n<h3>Thomas Headling<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sport:\u00a0<\/strong>TaeKwonDo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic course:\u00a0<\/strong>Bsc Chemistry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best sporting achievement\/personal best:<\/strong>Gold in sparring at the L.T.S.I<\/p>\n<p>English Open Championships October 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022\/23 goals in sport:\u00a0<\/strong>Improve my technique and skill level in my sport, achieve black black belt at my home club, and compete at a new level in competitions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why did you apply to study at Kent (new students) or what is your favourite thing about Kent Uni (returning students)?<\/b>\u00a0It has a good funding scheme for chemistry and it offered the chance for a sport scholarship.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you looking forward to experiencing most on the Scheme this year? C<\/b>ompeting at a new level in my sport.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"alert alert--tertiary\">\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3556 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/files\/2022\/11\/Alex-Appleby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" \/>Alex Appleby<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sport<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>Figure Skating<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic course<\/strong><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong>BSC Physics<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best sporting achievement\/personal best:\u00a0<\/strong>Competing in the World Synchronised Skating Championships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022\/23 goals in sport:\u00a0<\/strong>Be selected for the World Winter University Games.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why did you apply to study at Kent (new students) or what is your favourite thing about Kent Uni (returning students)?<\/b>\u00a0The student-led teaching and support on offer.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are you looking forward to experiencing most on the Scheme this year?\u00a0<\/b>Working hard in both my sport and academics to achieve my best.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/&amp;t=Meet some of our sports scholarship stars' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Meet some of our sports scholarship stars%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/&amp;title=Meet some of our sports scholarship stars' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/&amp;title=Meet some of our sports scholarship stars' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a sporting fanatic? No matter your sport, there could be a scholarship for you. Meet some of our sport scholars. Thomas Headling Sport:\u00a0TaeKwonDo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2022\/11\/10\/sporting-stars\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40702,"featured_media":3551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244599,124,28766,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}