{"id":3929,"date":"2013-09-18T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2013-09-25T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T19:36:06","slug":"breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ryan-baudin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/breakfast-of-champions-spotlight-ryan-baudin\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast of Champions Spotlight: Ryan Baudin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All-star twelve-year-old Ryan Baudin started gymnastics when he was six years old.<\/p>\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like a lot of fun!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a Provincial Men\u2019s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG) competitor, Ryan and his teammates train at least twelve hours a week preparing routines on six different apparatus:  pommel horse, vault, rings, high bar, parallel bars, and floor exercise.  <\/p>\n<p>Ryan enjoys the diversity of Artistic Gymnastics, which brings about improved strength, power, balance, agility and more.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the many physical gains from his gymnastics experience, Ryan says he has also learned \u201cto never give up on something I really want to achieve, and to do the best I can to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned to be patient, and to stay focused on the objectives my coaches give me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s favourite event is vault, where he earned his first ever Silver medal.  Finishing third overall at the Burlington Provincial Qualifier was the highlight of his 2012\/2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his short and long-term goals, Ryan responds, \u201cMy goal for the upcoming season is to get all my skills and routines, and do the best I can. My long term is to reach to the highest level in gymnastics that I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan adds, \u201cI want to thank my coaches for training me and giving me the opportunity to achieve my greatest season last year. I also want to say that Evolution is a great place to train and I am grateful for all the support that I get from my coaches and all the staff at EGA!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of Ryan\u2019s podium finish at last season\u2019s Provincial Championships, Ryan will join 3 of his EGA teammates as an award recipient at the upcoming Sport Aurora Breakfast of Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-star twelve-year-old Ryan Baudin started gymnastics when he was six years old.<\/p>\n<p>Why? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like a lot of fun!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}