{"id":4757,"date":"2019-06-07T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:13","slug":"diving-into-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2019\/06\/07\/diving-into-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Into the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AARON EMBREE \u201919 <\/strong>was seven years old when his uncles dared him to jump off his grandparents\u2019 diving board. They offered him a few dollars, and Embree certainly wasn\u2019t going to turn down a chance to be the center of attention.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still the same today for the self-proclaimed \u201cadrenaline junkie\u201d and this year\u2019s North Coast Athletic Conference Diver of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s why I\u2019ve been interested in the sport for so long. Doing those scary dives\u2026it\u2019s such a rush. That feeling really doesn\u2019t go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embree\u2019s favorite Wabash memory is Chapel Sing. One of his favorite experiences was being in a Scarlet Masque production.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like the spotlight!\u201d He smirks.<\/p>\n<p>So diving is the perfect sport for him. When he\u2019s up on the board, all eyes are on him. He loves that\u2014even when a dive goes poorly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do a really good job of coming out of the water with a big smile on my face.\u201d He laughs. \u201cI\u2019ll hear the big \u2018Ooooo\u2019 come from the crowd, so I ham it up a little bit\u2014but not too much\u2014waving, making sure the crowd knows I\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embree\u2019s diving career has ended, but the adrenaline junkie is alive and well. Granted, that drive is not as strong as it was in high school, when he got on a plane for the first time\u2014just to jump out of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was wild in high school, but that\u2019s not the norm here. I had to get a lot more serious, and I\u2019ve matured a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still there, but it\u2019s waiting for the right time.\u201d He laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s tired.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AARON EMBREE \u201919 was seven years old when his uncles dared him to jump off his grandparents\u2019 diving board. They offered him a few dollars, and Embree certainly wasn\u2019t going to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-featured-videos","category-speaking-of-sports"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/06\/aaron-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4760,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}