{"id":12681,"date":"2015-07-27T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=12681"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:56","slug":"doctoral-student-wins-silver-medal-at-pan-am-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/doctoral-student-wins-silver-medal-at-pan-am-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral student wins silver medal at Pan Am Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Doctoral student wins silver medal at Pan Am Games\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Melissa Armstrong, a doctoral student in the History Department, was awarded a silver medal on Sunday at the Pan Am games in Toronto as a relief pitcher on the Canadian women&#8217;s baseball team. This was the first time women&#8217;s baseball was included in a multisport event, like the Pan Am Games, and the team made it to the final game, when they lost 11-3 to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographs taken by fellow doctoral student William Tate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large wp-image-12686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Armstrong, sporting her silver medal, at the Pan Am Games with parents Chuck and Holly Armstrong.\" class=\"wp-image-12686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/IMG_2147-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Melissa Armstrong, sporting her silver medal, at the Pan Am Games with parents Chuck and Holly Armstrong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Armstrong, a doctoral student in the History Department, was awarded a silver medal on Sunday at the Pan Am games in Toronto as a relief pitcher on the Canadian women&#8217;s baseball team. 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