{"id":12872,"date":"2010-04-16T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:12:56","slug":"olympian-visits-uconn-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/olympian-visits-uconn-health-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Visits UConn Health Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12877\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pac3_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12877   img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"Erin Pac displays her Olympic bronze medal during a visit to the Health Center.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pac3_lg-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Erin Pac displays her Olympic bronze medal.&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"330\" height=\"221\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pac3_lg-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pac3_lg.jpg 700w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 330px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 330\/221;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Pac displays her Olympic bronze medal during a visit to the Health Center. Photo by Janine Gelineau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Olympic bronze medalist Erin Pac recently visited the UConn Health Center. Pac and her teammate, Elana Meyers, won a bronze medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in the two-person women\u2019s bobsled event. Women\u2019s Olympic bobsled only goes back to 2002, but in eight years, U.S. women have never missed the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Pac is a native of Farmington and the stepdaughter of Health Center employee Carol Pac. &#8220;We\u2019re extremely proud of Erin,\u201d says Carol Pac. \u201cShe has been preparing for the Olympics for the last eight years. It\u2019s wonderful that all her hard work has paid off.&#8221; Bobsledding involves lifting, pushing a heavy sled for 50 meters, and attaining explosive speed in short bursts.<\/p>\n<p>While at the Health Center, Pac visited with the staff of Facilities Development and Operations and spoke about her experiences at the Olympics. She also brought her bronze medal along for individuals to see up close. &#8220;Everyone was amazed at how heavy the medal is,&#8221; says Carol Pac.<\/p>\n<p>Pac\u2019s next stop, along with other U.S. Olympians, will be to visit with President Obama at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Pac, whose stepmom Carol works at the Health Center, won a bronze medal in women\u2019s bobsled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-12872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 08:47:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}