{"id":859,"date":"2013-12-03T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?page_id=859"},"modified":"2023-12-18T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:33:25","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/department\/mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-1024x404.png\" alt=\"Mission statement banner featuring a Bellevue baseball player.\" class=\"wp-image-28634 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-1024x404.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-768x303.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-1536x605.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/Mission_2023_blue-tabbed-2048x807.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The mission of Bellevue College intercollegiate athletics<\/strong> is to support the college\u2019s mission by inspiring academic and athletic excellence in student-athletes by providing an environment to support student-athletes to achieve their highest academic, athletic and personal goals.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/04\/Bellevue-Softball-3.3-231-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bellevue Softball - encouraging the team\" class=\"wp-image-22759 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/04\/Bellevue-Softball-3.3-231-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/04\/Bellevue-Softball-3.3-231-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/04\/Bellevue-Softball-3.3-231-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2019\/04\/Bellevue-Softball-3.3-231.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The athletic department at BC<\/strong>&nbsp;has goals and objectives that benefit both the college and the athletes themselves.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enhance student retention and graduation rates to afford student-athletes the opportunity to transfer to four-year institutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain full rosters of teams to assure competitiveness within the NWAC and student enrollment support for Bellevue College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bellevue College offers 11 team sports<\/strong>&nbsp;which have solid reputations of being top competitors in the Pacific Northwest for over 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rosters for teams are filled via active recruitment<\/strong>&nbsp;of athletes who enroll at BC to advance both educationally and athletically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of Bellevue College intercollegiate athletics is to support the college\u2019s mission by inspiring academic and athletic excellence in student-athletes by providing an environment to support student-athletes to achieve their highest academic, athletic and personal goals. The athletic department at BC&nbsp;has goals and objectives that benefit both the college and the athletes themselves. Enhance <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/department\/mission-statement\/\">...more about Mission Statement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":774,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28635,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/revisions\/28635"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}