{"id":1649,"date":"2018-11-22T19:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2018-11-22T19:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:16:59","slug":"girls-cross-country-mid-season-update-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/11\/22\/girls-cross-country-mid-season-update-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls&#8217; Cross Country Mid-Season Update 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Lauren Taylor &#8217;20<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Led by captains Cathleen Parker (VI) and Nicole Vanasse (V), the varsity girls\u2019 cross country team is looking forward to another fantastic season. \u201cExpectations are high for this team,\u201d Head Coach Tim Grant remarked, with the girls coming into preseason ranked ninth in the state. Unfortunately, the team has faced some challenges along the way, with Ryan Davi (IV) and Elina Irvine (IV), two of the team\u2019s strongest runners, both currently injured. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Coach Grant and the team captains have ambitious goals for the season. Coach Grant declared, \u201cOur main goal this year is to qualify for the Meet of Champions and to try to advance to Non-Public A State Championships.\u201d To do this, the team will have to have strong performances at the Shore Coaches Invitational in early October, the Prep State Championship at the end of October, and then the Groups Meet in November. The team placed at all of these meets last season and they hope to defend their title at the Prep State Championships. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captain Nikki Vanasse, along with the rest of the team, is \u201creally excited for the upcoming meets. . . The team has been training hard and we\u2019re excited to see it pay off!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Taylor &#8217;20 Led by captains Cathleen Parker (VI) and Nicole Vanasse (V), the varsity girls\u2019 cross country team is looking forward to another fantastic season. \u201cExpectations are high for this team,\u201d Head Coach Tim Grant remarked, with the girls coming into preseason ranked ninth in the state. Unfortunately, the team has faced some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1640,"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-1649","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\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}