{"id":938,"date":"2017-12-24T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=938"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:27:29","slug":"boys-basketball-mid-season-update-2017-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2017\/12\/24\/boys-basketball-mid-season-update-2017-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Basketball Mid-Season Update 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By Caroline Santoro (V)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The boys\u2019 basketball team is off to a great start this season. Having graduated five\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">seniors last year, this year\u2019s team is quite young. Captain Michael Weber (VI) feels \u201cexcited to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get started this season because of a lot of fresh faces in the program. With the majority of players being either freshmen or sophomores, it is exciting to see what the younger guys can bring to the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The team ended with a record of 11-12 last year and plans to keep working hard for continued\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">improvement and success. Head Coach Jason Murdock says that his main goal for\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this season is to create an environment in which the players feel valued, have fun with the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">competitive nature of the game, and, of course, enjoy a few victories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coach Murdock has been coaching the team since 2007. When asked what his favorite part of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">coaching basketball is, he said, \u201cAs a former player, the competition. But as a coach, it\u2019s seeing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the relationships formed by the team and players reaching their potential by creating an\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">environment that is both challenging and rewarding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The varsity team had its first scrimmage on December 5th against Morris Catholic High School, and their first away game on December 15th against <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Koinonia Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Caroline Santoro (V) The boys\u2019 basketball team is off to a great start this season. Having graduated five\u00a0seniors last year, this year\u2019s team is quite young. Captain Michael Weber (VI) feels \u201cexcited to\u00a0get started this season because of a lot of fresh faces in the program. With the majority of players being either freshmen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":326,"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":[51,80],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}