{"id":3953,"date":"2020-12-11T19:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=3953"},"modified":"2020-12-11T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T21:25:20","slug":"boys-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2020\/12\/11\/boys-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Brian Li (V)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys\u2019 swimming team is entering this season determined to make the most out of a shortened schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Steve Droste has been the head coach of the team for many years, but will not be able to participate this year; as a result, Coach Deirdre O\u2019Mara and captains Jerry O\u2019Mara (VI), Matt Fallon (VI), and Joseph Castagno (VI) will lead the team through this unique season.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The season will begin on February 1st and needless to say, \u201cthe practices will be very different,\u201d according to Coach O\u2019Mara. There will be \u201cno more than four socially-distant swimmers per lane,\u201d which will pose a challenge to provide all swimmers with enough practice time.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the team has come together in the face of such unfavorable conditions and agreed on their main goal this year: to have \u201cthree meets\u2026 against Ridge, Christian Brothers Academy, and Bridgewater.\u201d Despite the absence of state competitions, the team hopes to foster a positive environment, stay safe, and have a strong season.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Li (V) The boys\u2019 swimming team is entering this season determined to make the most out of a shortened schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Steve Droste has been the head coach of the team for many years, but will not be able to participate this year; as a result, Coach Deirdre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}