{"id":3144,"date":"2009-10-07T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-alum-tony-hill-donates-10-000-to-start-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2009-10-07T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T04:53:00","slug":"poly-alum-tony-hill-donates-10-000-to-start-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-alum-tony-hill-donates-10-000-to-start-scholarship","title":{"rendered":"Poly Alum Tony Hill Donates $10,000 To Start Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <br \/><span>Photo by John Fajardo<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If you were at the Poly\/Jordan football game on Friday and you missed this moment at halftime, don&#8217;t beat yourself up: it was opening night for the Moore League, the marching band was on the field, maybe you had to use the little football fans&#8217; room.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>But it was an important moment, and we wanted to be sure you knew about it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>At halftime, Poly alum (and former Dallas Cowboy) Tony Hill presented principal Shawn Ashley with a check for $10,000, which will officially create the Leroy and Bernice Hill Academic Athlete Fund, in honor of Hill&#8217;s father and mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The funding was partially supplied by the charity basketball game we told you about last Spring, but largely supplied from Hill&#8217;s own pocketbook.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>&#8220;I just think it&#8217;s important to support Poly, and the student-athletes at this school,&#8221; Hill said after presenting Ashley with the check.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>He&#8217;s already committed to donating another $10,000 guaranteed in the Spring, as well as hosting another charity game at the school.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size:10pt; line-height: normal; color: #666666; white-space: pre; \"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/i304.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn191\/LBPOSTphotos\/LBPolyFootballvsLBJordan4-1.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At halftime of the Poly\/Jordan game on Friday, it would have been easy to overlook this important moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}