{"id":4579,"date":"2009-07-29T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:16:27","slug":"ross-recognized-for-community-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ross-recognized-for-community-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Recognized for Community Outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ross has participated in many outreach events during his time as a Knight, including the Orange County Public Schools Transition Program, Florida Children’s Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, the Ronald McDonald House and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.<\/p>\n
Ross graduated in four years with a 3.053 GPA, receiving his degree in criminal justice in May. He will pursue a master’s degree in sports leadership this fall.<\/p>\n
Ross is a two-time member of the ESPN The Magazine\/CoSIDA Academic All-District Team. He is a member of the UCF Dean’s List, Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.<\/p>\n
The team’s lone senior wide receiver, Ross continued to give great leadership to that group, even last season while sitting out the last eight games with a fractured clavicle. He played in the first 43 games of his career before that injury suffered last Sept. 27 at UTEP, earning a medical hardship waiver to return for a fifth season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross has participated in many outreach events during his time as a Knight, including the Orange County Public Schools Transition Program, Florida Children’s Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, the Ronald McDonald House and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Ross graduated in four years with a 3.053 GPA, receiving his degree in criminal justice in May. He will pursue a master’s degree in…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1810,4042],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-football","tag-rocky-ross"],"yoast_head":"\n