{"id":1116,"date":"2018-03-25T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-07-25T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:23:08","slug":"wrestling-post-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/03\/25\/wrestling-post-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Post-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Alison Lee (IV)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After coming back from winter break with a 1-6 record, the wrestling team made a strong comeback, bumping their record up to 10-9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One big accomplishment of this season was winning the Rutgers Prep tournament. The team also celebrated Brandon Spellman (V) as their first county champion in over a decade. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team\u2019s \u201ctechnique, conditioning, and toughness have improved all season long, thanks to dedication and discipline,\u201d Head Coach George Sullivan said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This attitude was evident in their match against Manville. Though the team lost 30-40, they \u201cbattled through every bout and set the tone for the rest of the season. We were battling injuries and had a string of losses, but the team put that behind them and gave it everything they had anyways,\u201d Mr. Sullivan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team also has the potential to put several wrestlers deep into the postseason, with some wrestlers hoping to advance to regionals. \u201cWith a chance to have a historic postseason finish,\u201d said Mr. Sullivan, \u201cI know that our wrestlers have put in the time and effort to finish on top.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alison Lee (IV) After coming back from winter break with a 1-6 record, the wrestling team made a strong comeback, bumping their record up to 10-9. One big accomplishment of this season was winning the Rutgers Prep tournament. The team also celebrated Brandon Spellman (V) as their first county champion in over a decade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,81],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}