{"id":13697,"date":"2019-08-20T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:20:05","slug":"meet-brenna-bray-02-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/meet-brenna-bray-02-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Brenna Bray &#8217;02!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright wp-image-13698 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/brennawpStory-200x300.png\" alt=\"brenna bray '02\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Meet 2019-20 Alumni Association Board member Brenna Bray &#8217;02!<\/p>\n<p>Brenna was an MPA student from grades 5-12, graduating in 2002 to attend St. Olaf for undergrad.\u00a0Around 2011, Brenna lived back home in Minnesota after attending the Publishing Institute at Denver University, and was presented the opportunity to coach the MPA cross country running and ski teams. After an amazing coaching experience at MPA for two years, she went on to pursue her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience at the\u00a0University of South Dakota&#8217;s Sanford School of Medicine. However, she stays in touch with many of the Panthers she coached and cheers them on from near and far.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now once again back in Minnesota, Brenna is looking forward to reconnecting with the MPA community, and wanted to further rekindle that connection. \u201cThe Alumni Association Board provided a very fun way for me to do that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Brenna also adds that her role on the MPA Alumni Board has provided her with many opportunities to support MPA and get involved with the school and community she loves. As part of the Board, she hopes to continue supporting, fostering, and sharing the MPA community and spirit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for more extended profiles of your 2019-20 Mounds Park Academy Alumni Association Board!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet 2019-20 Alumni Association Board member Brendan Boyle &#8217;14!Brendan attended MPA from kindergarten through 12th grade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10028,15,28,24,29,27,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-experience","category-athletics","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-my-mpa-experience","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13701,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions\/13701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}