{"id":68297,"date":"2024-02-27T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-welcomes-alanna-vann-young-as-new-athletic-director\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:22:24","slug":"kentwood-welcomes-alanna-vann-young-as-new-athletic-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/kentwood-welcomes-alanna-vann-young-as-new-athletic-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentwood High welcomes Alanna Vann-Young as new athletic director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the retirement of Kentwood High School athletic director Kurt Phelps, a new face will be in charge of the Conquerors&rsquo; athletic department: Alanna Vann-Young.<\/p>\n<p>Vann-Young is a former Bishop Blanchet High School head coach and science teacher. She has also taught at Illahee Middle School and Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way.<\/p>\n<p>Education-wise, Vann-Young got her bachelor&rsquo;s degree in health and performance from the University of Montana, where she was also on the track team. Vann-Young then went and got her master&rsquo;s degree in intercollegiate athletic leadership at the University of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Her mission is to &ldquo;influence educational and athletic opportunities for student-athletes by developing an environment that inspires and empowers student-athletes to be champions in academics, competition and life,&rdquo; she told the Kent School District.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re excited to have her energy and expertise leading Kentwood athletics into the future,&rdquo; the Kent School District said in a statement to the Kent Reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Montana grad is coming from Bishop Blanchet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":68299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-68297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68297"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}