{"id":68806,"date":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduating-senior-to-set-sail-for-next-olympics\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduating-senior-to-set-sail-for-next-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/uri-graduating-senior-to-set-sail-for-next-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduating senior to set sail for next Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2005 — Tim Pitts will walk through the graduation ceremonies next week at the 溏心vlog免费B站 knowing that he’s only steps away from setting sail for his next big race.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe soon-to-be chemical engineering graduate will pack away his books and hit the docks to prepare for the 2008 Olympic games.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter having competed in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, topping his personal best at the U.S. Laser National races in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., last month, the 23-year-old student sailor says he’s ready.<\/p>\n


\n\t“Now that I’m graduating, I’ll be working on my next Olympics campaign. I know I’ll find a way to make it happen,” said Pitts who took a leave from 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2003 to pursue his dream to compete in the Olympics.<\/p>\n


\n\tPitts, who lives in Newport, was born and raised on St. Croix. He was the first Virgin Islander and the youngest to earn a sailing spot in the ’04 Olympic games. He was also the only sailor from the Caribbean in the laser sailboat event.<\/p>\n


\n\tTo qualify for the challenge, he competed in numerous events around the world during his leave from 溏心vlog免费B站. Pitts said the University was a strong source of support helping him to accomplish both of his goals: the Olympics and the degree.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I wouldn’t have been able to do half of the things that I did if I hadn’t gone to 溏心vlog免费B站. The faculty and everyone in the chemical engineering department were so supportive of my efforts. I ended up with a better degree from 溏心vlog免费B站 than I would have received anywhere else.<\/p>\n


\n\t“Professor [Vincent] Rose was by far been my biggest supporter. He has helped in so many ways. When I came back from Greece, he had collected and gave to me all the news clippings from around the world about the Olympic races. He has been incredible, both as a teacher, but also just as a person.”<\/p>\n

\t\tWhen asked why he pursued a degree in chemical engineering, Pitts said he was always good in math and liked the first chemistry class he took. He also knew chemical engineering graduates would earn top salaries — something he’d need to help him navigate his future endeavors.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 17, 2005 — Tim Pitts will walk through the graduation ceremonies next week at the 溏心vlog免费B站 knowing that he’s only steps away from setting sail for his next big race. The soon-to-be chemical engineering graduate will pack away his books and hit the docks to prepare for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}