{"id":85486,"date":"2026-04-03T13:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?p=85486"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:14:01","slug":"tara-watchhorn-2026-convocation-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/tara-watchhorn-2026-convocation-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Watchhorn, Head Coach of BU Women&#8217;s Hockey Team, to Deliver 2026 Convocation Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2026\/04\/watchhorn2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"315\" class=\"wp-image-85602 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2026\/04\/watchhorn2.png 1075w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2026\/04\/watchhorn2-636x490.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2026\/04\/watchhorn2-1024x789.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2026\/04\/watchhorn2-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/>Coach Tara Watchorn<\/strong> (SAR &#8217;12), the head coach 0f BU&#8217;s women&#8217;s ice hockey team, will deliver the Sargent College convocation address on <strong>May 16, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Watchorn graduated from Sargent College in 2012 after studying Health Sciences, and is a former member of the hockey team she now leads! Also an Olympic gold medalist, she played for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Games.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t be more thrilled to have her speak at this year&#8217;s convocation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/about-us\/convocation\/\">BU Sargent College Convocation<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>will be held on <strong>May 16<\/strong> and will begin at <strong>8:30 a.m. ET<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be followed by the<strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/\">All University Commencement<\/a><\/strong><span> on <strong>Sunday<\/strong>, <strong>May 17<\/strong>, at<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>1 p.m. ET<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>more information about graduation activities at Boston University<\/strong>, please visit<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/\">BU\u2019s commencement website<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/commencement\/\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach Tara Watchorn (SAR &#8217;12), the head coach 0f BU&#8217;s women&#8217;s ice hockey team, will deliver the Sargent College convocation address on May 16, 2026. Coach Watchorn graduated from Sargent College in 2012 after studying Health Sciences, and is a former member of the hockey team she now leads! Also an Olympic gold medalist, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17266,"featured_media":85487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85486"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85603,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85486\/revisions\/85603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}