{"id":5114,"date":"2025-12-18T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/?post_type=article&#038;p=5114"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:50:28","slug":"florence-jiang-2024-begins-new-chapter-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/article\/florence-jiang-2024-begins-new-chapter-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Jiang (2024) begins new chapter in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MLC School congratulates Old Girl <strong>Florence Jiang<\/strong> (2024) on her exciting journey to the USA, where she will continue to pursue both academic and athletic excellence at California State University.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by Study &amp; Play USA, Florence has secured a placement that recognises her as a well-rounded student-athlete, an achievement that reflects the holistic education and opportunities she embraced during her time at MLC School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A key criteria in successfully placing Australian student-athletes into US universities is the well-roundedness of the individual,&#8217; said a representative from Study &amp; Play USA. &#8216;We commend MLC School on providing Florence with opportunities to develop as a person, student, and athlete.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to following Florence\u2019s achievements and wish her every success in this exciting new chapter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5005\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5005 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang-120x150.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2025\/11\/Florence-Jiang.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence Jiang (2024) signs with California State University to compete in NCAA Division 1 Swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLC School congratulates Old Girl Florence Jiang (2024) on her exciting journey to the USA, where she will continue to pursue both academic and athletic excellence at California State University. Supported by Study &amp; Play USA, Florence has secured a placement that recognises her as a well-rounded student-athlete, an achievement that reflects the holistic education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5114","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-old-girls-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-oldgirls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}