{"id":6573,"date":"2016-01-21T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:18:12","slug":"6573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/21\/6573\/","title":{"rendered":"People magazine covers Olivia Maccoux&#8217;s triumphs over adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/people-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/people-logo-300x157.png\" alt=\"people - logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/people-logo-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/01\/people-logo.png 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>People magazine recently published an article about <strong>Olivia Maccoux &#8217;19<\/strong>, an Augsburg College student who has endured 120 brain surgeries due to a condition called hydrocephalus, which causes excess fluid to accumulate in the brain. Despite this, Maccoux has found success and solace by participating in a number of sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s sports that distract me or if it&#8217;s just because I love playing them, but for whatever reason, when I&#8217;m on the field, in the pool or on the rink, I let my pain wash over me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like it doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maccoux&#8217;s mother, Cathy, said\u00a0that her daughter\u00a0is known for her courage and strength.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes by stating that Maccoux has made the Dean&#8217;s List every semester that she has attended Augsburg. She is majoring in communication studies, with plans for a career in nonprofit fundraising in the health care industry.<\/p>\n<p id=\"articleHeadline\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/celebrity\/college-athlete-defies-odds-after-120-brain-surgeries\/\">College Athlete Won&#8217;t Let 120 Brain Surgeries Stand in Her Way: I Don&#8217;t Want to Be the &#8216;Sick Girl&#8217;<\/a> on the People site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People magazine recently published an article about Olivia Maccoux &#8217;19, an Augsburg College student who has endured 120 brain surgeries due to a condition called hydrocephalus, which causes excess fluid to accumulate in the brain. Despite this, Maccoux has found success and solace by participating in a number of sports. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3760,3759,3761,2747],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-adapted-sports","tag-olivia-maccoux","tag-people-magazine","tag-students-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10439,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}