{"id":310,"date":"2011-09-22T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2022-04-26T04:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:38:16","slug":"us-olympians-meet-with-duke-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"US Olympians Meet with Duke Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>US Olympians Meet with Duke Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold medalists Steve Mesler (bobsled), Jackie Joyner Kersee (track &amp; field) and Alana Nichols (Paralympic basketball and skiing) met with a group of Duke University business students to discuss leadership and overcoming obstacles.\u00a0 The talk, entitled &#8220;It&#8217;s your race, Take the lead&#8221;\u00a0was given with the help of US Olympic and Paralympic sponsor Deloitte.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Mesler, gold medalist in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in four-man bobsled, talked to the students about his post track &amp; field career, and how he used failures to become the champion he is: \u201cI tried track, and it didn\u2019t work. You\u2019re going to find success where you\u2019ll find success. You\u2019re not always going to succeed; in fact I\u2019m here to tell you you\u2019re going to fail.\u00a0 The sooner you recognize that, the sooner you\u2019ll succeed\u2026 \u201c.\u00a0 Mesler also talked about his nonprofit organization Classroom Champions, and how Deloitte has helped Mesler overcome the learning curve that comes from starting up a nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_82891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-316\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_82891-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_82891-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_82891.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joyner-Kersee spent time talking about not being prepared and how early failures in the Olympics led to two Heptathlon and one long jump gold medal over the span of two summer games.\u00a0 Nichols is a former softball standout who suffered a spinal injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. People can check<a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseespinesurgeon.com\/dr-juris-shibayama-debuts-robot-assisted-spine-surgery-at-tennessee-hospital\/\"> tennesseespinesurgeon.com\/dr-juris-shibayama-debuts-robot-assisted-spine-surgery-at-tennessee-hospital<\/a> this site for the best spinal injury doctors.\u00a0 After discovering wheel chair basketball, Nichols helped lead the US to a gold medal in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, as well as in skiing in the 2010 Vancouver games.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Deloitte\u2019s sponsorship of the US Olympic Committee, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deloitte.com\/view\/en_US\/us\/About\/olympics\/\">http:\/\/www.deloitte.com\/view\/en_US\/us\/About\/olympics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on Steve Mesler\u2019s Classroom Champions, visit them online at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classroomchampions.org\/\">http:\/\/www.classroomchampions.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[comboslideshow id=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">US Olympians Meet with Duke Students Olympic gold medalists Steve Mesler (bobsled), Jackie Joyner Kersee (track &amp; field) and Alana Nichols (Paralympic basketball and skiing) met with a group of Duke University business students to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slidingonice.com\/?p=310\" title=\"US Olympians Meet with Duke Students\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletes","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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