{"id":11865,"date":"2025-10-06T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:06:32","slug":"campus-voices-ronnie-golman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2025\/10\/06\/campus-voices-ronnie-golman\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Voices: Ronnie Golman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>by Waylon Jones, Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 468w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/10\/image-2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">For Ronnie Golman, coming to the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) was a leap of faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cHonestly, coming here was just taking it on a wing,\u201d the accounting major explained. Arriving on campus from Georgetown, Texas, he was drawn by the chance to reconnect with his former high school teammate, Hector Perez. Perez is a sophomore on UMPI\u2019s baseball team. Golman also yearns to play baseball again, and feels most excited about experiencing college baseball and everything that comes with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">He has transitioned smoothly from high school to college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty relaxing and easy. Honestly, it feels more laid back compared to high school, but still really fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">This semester, Ronnie looks forward to bonding with his teammates, making new friends, and seeing where the baseball season takes him. His personal goal at UMPI is ambitious: to break the stolen base record during his time here.&nbsp;If he had to describe UMPI in three words, he would choose <em>fun<\/em>, <em>unique<\/em>, and <em>small<\/em>. For Ronnie, the university\u2019s mix of energy, opportunity, and close-knit community makes UMPI truly stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Waylon Jones, Staff Writer For Ronnie Golman, coming to the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) was a leap of faith. &nbsp;\u201cHonestly, coming here was just taking it on a wing,\u201d the accounting major explained. Arriving on campus from Georgetown, Texas, he was drawn by the chance to reconnect with his former high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7376,7378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11867,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions\/11867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}