{"id":915,"date":"2017-12-24T19:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=915"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:25:46","slug":"squash-mid-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/12\/24\/squash-mid-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Mid-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Meghan Durkin (III)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the winter sports season approaches, the girls\u2019 squash team is thrilled to get back on the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">courts. This year\u2019s team, led by new head coach Mrs. Tina Rix-Stout and captains Rachel Chen\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(VI) and Namita Davey (VI), will strive to continue the success of last year\u2019s season, during\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which the team finished second in Division II at Nationals. The team is looking forward to i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mproving their ranks by \u201cmaking it into Division I\u201d and are \u201choping to win State\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Championships,\u201d Chen says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the squash courts in the Bugliari Athletic Center are up and running for their first full season, the girls will now practice on campus instead of using the courts at Drew University as they did in previous years. This advantage holds promise for the captains and the rest of the team to \u201cimprove match performance\u201d as well as to \u201cbuild team bonding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, the increase in the size of the team is an exciting opportunity for growth in the squash program and for a strong season.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davey and the other girls, who won their first home match 6-1 against Poly Prep on December 13th, are hoping \u201cmore people will come out to watch our matches and support.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meghan Durkin (III) As the winter sports season approaches, the girls\u2019 squash team is thrilled to get back on the\u00a0courts. This year\u2019s team, led by new head coach Mrs. Tina Rix-Stout and captains Rachel Chen\u00a0(VI) and Namita Davey (VI), will strive to continue the success of last year\u2019s season, during\u00a0which the team finished second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":325,"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":[51,74],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-squash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}