{"id":3628,"date":"2021-10-08T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aig.alumni.virginia.edu\/virginiarowing\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2022-07-19T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:19:17","slug":"an-evening-with-arshay-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/2021\/10\/08\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evening with Arshay Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3629 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-1-2021-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-1-2021-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-1-2021.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/> Beaver Creek Sculling, a local high school rowing team; the Dietz International Rowing Academy, an organization providing international rowing and cultural experiences for underprivileged youth; and the Virginia Rowing Association (UVA) will host Arshay Cooper, the team captain of the first all-black high school rowing team. Throughout the evening, Arshay will share his award-winning film, <em>A Most Beautiful Thing. <\/em>The film is based on Arshay\u2019s memoir depicting life as teen during the 90\u2019s in gang-laden Chicago\u2019s West Side; Arshay and his teammates attribute their very survival amidst such violence to the moving forward attitude, the discipline and cooperation they learned as rowing teammates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3630 alignright\" style=\"letter-spacing: 0.2px\" src=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-2-2021-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-2-2021-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/files\/Arshay-Event-poster-2-2021.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/>On <strong>October 27, at 6:30PM,<\/strong> at the Western Albemarle High School Auditorium, Arshay Cooper will be joined by Jim Dietz, 4-time Olympian, Frank Biller, UVA\u2019s Director of Rowing, and Craig Redinger, Head Coach of Beaver Creek Sculling, and Western Albemarle High School Rowing Team for a discussion on his experiences leading the first all-black rowing team in the country. A viewing of the film will follow. The event is open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaver Creek Sculling, a local high school rowing team; the Dietz International Rowing Academy, an organization providing international rowing and cultural experiences for underprivileged youth; and the Virginia Rowing Association (UVA) will host Arshay Cooper, the team captain of the first all-black high school rowing team. Throughout the evening, Arshay will share his award-winning film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Evening with Arshay Cooper - Virginia Rowing Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/virginiarowing\/2021\/10\/08\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emma Farthing\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Emma Farthing\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/760500f900b8053272a4da35caf8c920\"},\"headline\":\"An Evening with Arshay Cooper\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-08T15:14:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-19T15:19:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/files\\\/Arshay-Event-poster-1-2021-232x300.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aig.uvaalumni.org\\\/virginiarowing\\\/2021\\\/10\\\/08\\\/an-evening-with-arshay-cooper\\\/\",\"name\":\"An Evening with Arshay Cooper - 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