{"id":8113,"date":"2026-09-03T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=8113"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:43:39","slug":"nicole-stafford","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=nicole-stafford","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Stafford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite all her physical gifts, Nicole Stafford was best known for her indomitable spirit. As a star swimmer for Dynamo and Westminster, Nicole set a Georgia LSC and high school 200 freestyle records in 2013 that still stand. Nicole had a stellar career at Stanford where she overcame immense health challenges to become a 5-time All American and an NCAA relay champion. In 2017, Nicole won the prestigious 2017 Honda Inspiration Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicole Stafford   2026 HOF\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjTZuMT3xs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all her physical gifts, Nicole Stafford was best known for her indomitable spirit. As a star swimmer for Dynamo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gahof.org\/?portfolio=nicole-stafford\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicole Stafford<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8123,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[418],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8113","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-2026-inductees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/8113\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=8113"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gahof.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_tag&post=8113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}