{"id":19761,"date":"2026-02-11T08:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:30:55","slug":"u-s-olympian-with-guild-and-team-usa-learning-network-celebrates-bronze-medal-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/Q1\/u-s-olympian-with-guild-and-team-usa-learning-network-celebrates-bronze-medal-at-milano-cortina-2026","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympian with Guild and Team USA Learning Network celebrates bronze medal at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ashley Farquharson followed her dreams to Italy, where she earned a bronze medal Tuesday (Feb. 10) in women\u2019s singles luge during the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farquharson, a two-time U.S. Olympian, finished with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/results\/luge\">a total time of 3:31.582 across four runs<\/a>, 0.957 seconds behind the gold medal winner and 0.039 seconds behind the silver medalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a partnership between Guild and Team USA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/Q1\/guild-and-team-usa-learning-network-celebrates-2-team-usa-luge-athletes-going-for-gold-medals\/\">Farquharson will return to classes at Purdue Global<\/a> after the Winter Olympics with the goal of earning her bachelor\u2019s degree in business. Purdue Global is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdueglobal.edu\/about\/guild-partnership-with-team-usa\/\">the preferred online university and degree provider<\/a> of the Guild and Team USA Learning Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farquharson is the first active student from Purdue Global and the Purdue system to ever receive a Winter Olympics medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related coverage:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkrecord.com\/2026\/02\/10\/farquharson-takes-historic-bronze-in-cortina\/\">Park City\u2019s Farquharson takes historic bronze in Cortina<\/a> (The Park Record)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Farquharson followed her dreams to Italy, where she earned a bronze medal Tuesday (Feb. 10) in women\u2019s singles luge during the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Farquharson, a two-time U.S. Olympian, finished with a total time of 3:31.582<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,420],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[333],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[47],"class_list":["post-19761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-unlisted","source-purdue-global"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19771,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions\/19771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}