{"id":1637,"date":"2018-11-22T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2018-11-22T19:14:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:14:26","slug":"boys-cross-country-mid-season-update-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/11\/22\/boys-cross-country-mid-season-update-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Cross Country Mid-Season Update 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Jeffrey Xiao &#8217;19<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite losing two varsity runners, the boys\u2019 cross country team, led by captains Tom Drzik (VI) and Jeffrey Xiao (VI), is looking forward to another successful season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even after last year\u2019s record-breaking season, the team still fields one of its strongest teams in recent memory, thanks to its chemistry and depth. \u00a0According to Drzik, \u201cthe team currently has a tight pack consisting of 8 or 9 runners. During all practices, everyone works to stay as close to each other as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team has already shown strong potential when it opened the season on September 11th with a home meet win against Bernards, Somerville, Immaculata, and Gill St. Bernards. \u00a0Since then, Coaches Matt Horesta and Tim Lear have helped the team gear up for October\u2019s championship meets through a variety of road runs and workouts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs for the rest of the season,\u201d Xiao said, \u201cthe team hopes to win the Prep \u2018A\u2019 championship for the third consecutive year and break the top three at Non-Public \u2018A\u2019 Championships, among others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeffrey Xiao &#8217;19 Despite losing two varsity runners, the boys\u2019 cross country team, led by captains Tom Drzik (VI) and Jeffrey Xiao (VI), is looking forward to another successful season. Even after last year\u2019s record-breaking season, the team still fields one of its strongest teams in recent memory, thanks to its chemistry and depth. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1638,"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":[51,54],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-cross-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}