{"id":1238,"date":"2018-06-10T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T14:38:23","slug":"boys-track-and-field-mid-season-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/06\/10\/boys-track-and-field-mid-season-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Track and Field Mid-Season Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The boys\u2019 track and field team has started the season off with a strong 1-3 record. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team, led by Coach Mark Sepkowski and Captain Obi Nnaeto (VI), has many outstanding athletes this year. Coach Sepkowski noted that,\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zach Aanstoots (VI) is a school record holder in the high jump and the long jump. Austin Parsons (VI) was 5th last year in the State Finals and 6th this year in the Penn Relays javelin. Ben Vasquez (VI) is a top contender in the 800 M run.\u00a0 Obi Nnaeto (VI) is the team&#8217;s fastest sprinter and a great long jumper.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, this means the team will be losing many valuable senior members next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although these fantastic athletes will be leaving, Coach Sepkowski and Captain Nnaeto are optimistic for the future of the team. Nnaeto said, \u201cThe team as a whole is moving in the right direction \u2026 The future is bright as sophomore Amir Arnold (IV) is making strides in the long jump and freshman Henry Wood (III) is blowing the field away in the 1600m.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Obi Nnaeto, the whole team worked \u201cto improve on their times and try a variety of events\u201d throughout the whole season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys\u2019 track and field team has started the season off with a strong 1-3 record. The team, led by Coach Mark Sepkowski and Captain Obi Nnaeto (VI), has many outstanding athletes this year. Coach Sepkowski noted that,\u201cZach Aanstoots (VI) is a school record holder in the high jump and the long jump. Austin Parsons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":673,"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":[51,111],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","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=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}